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S IN APIS nigra.
Common Mußard.
TETRAD YNAMIA SiKqmfa.
G en. C har. Cal. widely fpreading. Claws of tire
-petals ftraight. Nectariferous glands 4. Pod more
or lefs cylindrical, the partition longer than the
valves.
Spec. Char. Pods fmooth, fquare, clofe prefled to the
Item. Upper leaves linear-lanceolate, entire,
fmooth.
Syn. Sinapis nigra. Linn. Sp. Pi. 933. Sm. FI.
Brit. 722. Hudf. 297. With. 595. Hull. 148.
Relh. 259. Sibth. 209. Abbot. 146. Woodv.
Med. Bot. t. 151. Mart. Ruß. t. 51.
Sinapi fativum fecundum. Rail Syn. 295.
T h e common table Muftard, whole feeds are one of the
moft ufeful and wholefome of flimulants, both in cookery and
medicine, grows very frequently about the borders of fields,
hedge banks, and wafle ground, flowering in June and July.
The root is annual, and fmall. Stem upright, throwing out
a number of widely fpreading branches, round, fmooth, leafy.
Lower leaves lyrate, rough, varioufly lobed and toothed; upper
ones lanceolate, fpreading or deflexed, entire, quite fmooth,
{landing on fhort footftalks. Flowers numerous, bright yellow.
Calyx a little tinged with yellow. Pods fhort, ereft, and Handing
clofe to the main ftalk, quadrangular, tipped with the
fhort fquare permanent ftylej their furface but little uneven,
and generally quite dellitute of hairs. Seeds feveral, round,
xnooth, brown.