Brassica nigra
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Read about Brassica nigra in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Brassica nigra, Koch. Black Mustard. Fig. 636. St. tall and upright, with wide-spreading branches: Ivs. pinnatifid, somewhat hairy: pods short and erect, glabrous; seeds small and dark brown, pungent, supplying the mustard of commerce. Cult, in Eu., but a weed in this country.—Commercial mustard is the flour of the seeds of this species chiefly, but the seeds of B. alba and probably of B. juncea are sometimes used. B. adpressa, Boiss. Annual or biennial, much like B. nigra but st. stiffer, Ivs. less divided and plant somewhat hoary: pods with a short 1-seedcd beak. Occasionally adventive from Eu.—B. sinénsis, Hort.- B. chinensis.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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