B R A S S I C A olcracea.
Sea Cabbage.
TETRAD YNAMl A SiUquofa.
Gen. Char. Cal. eredl, partly cohering. Seeds
globular. Pod nearly cylindrical; the partition
prominent, avvl-fhaped. Glands 4.
Spec. Char. Root ftem-like, cylindrical, fiefhy. All
the leaves fmooth, glaucous, waved and lobed.
Syn . Braffica oleracea. Linn. Sp. P i. 932. «. Hud/-
289. JFith. 591. Hull. 148. Freeman Ic. t. 4, 5.
B. maritima arborea, feu procerior, ramofa. Rail
Syn. 293. ____________
T h e common garden Cabbage in its wild ftate grows on
cliffs by the fea-fide at Dover, as well as on the Welch, Corn-
ifh, and Yorkfhire coafts; but has fo feldom been faithfully
delineated, that we fcarcely know where to refer to a certain
figure of it, except in thofe exquifite elaborate plates publifhed
by Strickland Freeman Efq. and faid to be the performances
of two Ladies, who certainly rank as artifts in the firft line.
Mr. Sowerby drew the prefent figure at King’s Cove, in his-
late excurfion to Devonfhire and Cornwall, with Mr. D.
Turner, in June laft.
Root biennial, raifed above the ground in the form of a
cylindrical ftem, from 6 to 18 inches high, marked with fears
from theinfertion of the fallen leaf-ftalks. Leaves large, various
in form, often lyrate, waved and finuated, all glaucous and
fmooth; the uppermoft oblong, undivided. Flowers in terminal
corymbi lengthened out into Jong fpikes, large, lemon-
coloured. Pods fmooth, with a fwelling unequal furface. Seeds
large, globular.
The numerous garden varieties of this ufeful plant are fuffi-
ciently well known. The Swedifh turnep, as it is called, is
efteemed by Linnaeus a variety of B. oleracea. It is certainly
diftinA enough in fpecies from B. Rapa.