Vel Bounias, (from Bunias 1552 a hill, because it delights in rugged places,) called also actine, napus. Navew. It is a plant of the turnip kind, with oblong roots, growing slender from the top to the extremity. Linnaeus supposes the wild and sweet navew to be varieties only. It is also the napus saliva, napus dulcis, navew gentle - rape, French navew, sweet navew, and French turnip. Brassica napus Lin. Sp. Pi. 931. Nat. order cruciferae.

It is cultivated in gardens for the kitchen. The roots are warmer and more grateful than the common turnip, and afford a juice supposed to be pectoral.

The seeds of both sorts are warm and pungent, approaching to the virtues of mustard, but much inferior in their efficacy. Water extracts all their virtues. They yield by expression a large quantity of oil, which is sold under the name of rape oil: the wild sort is cultivated for this purpose. The cake remaining after the oil is expressed retains the acrimony of the seed.

There is a species which Galen prefers to the above; is called pseudo bunium, or napus sylvestris cretica, or Candy wild navew; a variety only. Dale.