*Brassica juncea (L.) Cosson. INDIAN MUSTARD. Ontario:
1/2 mile S of Queenston, high land, Miller (426), July 7, 1952; Queenston
Heights, Wm. Scott, Aug. 13, 1896 (6288), Heimburger (1955).
New York: weedy gorge crest
just N of the Schoelkopf Geological Museum, Eckel 8705171, Aug. 10, 1986 (BUF).
*Brassica kaber (DC.) L. Wheeler CHARLOCK. (As Brassica
sinapisastrum (sic), "abundant on both sides of the river,"
Day (1888). Ontario, Queen Victoria Park (as Brassica sinapistrum
Boiss.), Panton (1890). Ontario, Niagara Parks System (as B. sinapistrum),
Cameron (1895). "Very abundant in the meadows," Hamilton (1943).
(As Sinapis
arvensis L.) New York: Goat Island flower beds, Eckel & Eckel, July 20,
1988 (BUF). Ontario: Niagara-on-the-Lake, Irwin, June 10, 1963 (NFO).
*Brassica nigra Koch.
BLACK MUSTARD. . Ont.: "Queenston," Field Club,
1886. "Between the Falls and DeVeaux College," Day (1888).
"Lewiston," Field Club, 1893.
"Between the Falls and DeVeaux College," Day (1888). Ontario,
Niagara Parks System, Cameron (1895). Ontario: Queenston, J. White, Aug. 1,
1911 (36.249); Niagara Falls, Wm. Scott, Oct. 13, 1896 (6281); Queenston
Heights, M. Wilkes ... (51.645), Heimburger (1955). "... common in the
Park grasslands," Hamilton (1943).
New York:
Niagara Falls, Clinton (BUF); crest of the Niagara gorge, old bridge abutment
just S of Lower Arch RR Bridge, with Nepeta cataria, Acalypha
rhomboidea, Eupatorium maculatum. Eckel
619185 , Sept. 19, 1985 (BUF); entrance to old train bed N of Schoelkopf
Geological Museum, Eckel 8705169, Aug. 10, 1986 (BUF); talus, base of Goat
Island, Eckel, July 28, 1988 (BUF).
In 1901, Robinson wrote "in his
monograph of the genus Sisymbrium Eugene Fournier described in 1865 a
new species, S. niagarense, collected at Niagara ...."
Robinson examined the type at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris and determined it
to be Brassica kaber. Previously the taxon had been recognized as
a species, or a synonym of S. officinale. A Niagara station is
possibly the type for S. niagarense, and Fournier may have
visited Niagara Falls and collected it himself.
[*Brassica rapa L.] TURNIP. Ontario, Niagara Parks System, Cameron (1895).
Not listed in the flora for the
Niagara Frontier by Zander and Pierce (1979) because not persistent in wild
populations. Brassica rapa ssp. oleifera DC. is listed as a naturalized species by Mitchell (1986)
in his checklist of the plants of New York State, and it occurs in the Ontario
flora (Morton & Venn, 1990).
New York: Erie Co. as Brassica campestris L.) Buffalo,
on the marshy edge of the river; only a few plants, 1863. G. W. C. [George W.
Clinton]. Regent 1865 p. 199.
New York: Erie Co. City of Buffalo. Squaw Island, Niagara
River. Frank W. Johnson July 7, l923 (BUF).