Eruca
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Eruca (origin of name in doubt; probably from the Latin to burn, in allusion to the hot seeds). Cruciferae. Perhaps ten or a dozen herbs of Eu. and W. Asia, annual or biennial. Allied to Brassica: differs in the shorter, more turgid silique, with keeled valves; style elongated; seeds in 2 rows in each cell. The Lvs. are pinnately lobed or dentate, and the fls. rather large, yellow id purplish. E. sativa, Mill., Roquette, Tira or Rocket-salad, is the only species cult, in this country. It is a weedy annual, resembling a mustard, 1-2 ft. high, with lyrate-pinnatifid Lvs. and creamy yellow or whitish fls. in a raceme (which elongates in fr.). It is sparingly run wild in Canada, U. S., and Mex. See Roquette. L. H. B. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963