Gray's School And Field book of Botany: Consisting of "lessons in Botany ...
Gray's School And Field book of Botany: Consisting of "lessons in Botany ...
Asa Gray
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Old gardens, formerly cult, for a blue dye. 21. CAKILE, SEA-ROCKET. (An old Arabic name.) ® (5) C. Americtoa, American S. A fleshy herb, wild on the shore of the sea and Great Lakes, with obovate wavy-toothed leaves, and puri)li8h flowers. 22. RAPHANUS, RADISH. (Ancient Greek name, said to refer to the rapid germination of the seeds.) (i) (i) All from the Old World. R. sativus, Radish. Cult, from Eu. ; with lyrate lower leaves, purple and whitish flowers, and thick and pointed closed ix>*ds ; t...he seeds se])arated by irregular fleshy false partitions : cult, for the tender and fleshy pungent root : inclined to run wild. R. caud&tUS, Rat-tail R., from India, lately introduced into gjirdens, rather as a curiosity, is a probable variety of the Radish, with the narrow pod a foot or so long, eaten when green. v^ R. Raphanistrum, Wild R. or Jointed Charlock. Troublesome weed in cult! fields, with rough lyrate leaves, yellow petals changing to whitish or purplish, and narrow long-beaked pods, which are divided across between the several seeds, so as to become necklace-form.
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