Annual Wall-rocket
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Diplotaxis muralis
Mursenap 
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No, I haven't found another patch of the Wild Radish in the S-weed
domain. It is just a greeting by seed from the bulldozed
ones. The same sample scanned as fresh the first week in July, and now,
in a dried state. Yes, I still have it.
Then, I find some new yellow crucifers now and then. One mediumsize Flixweed at the nearest end of the bus center. And a few small Wall-rockets at the edge of the street where it runs over the pedestrian tunnel opposite the gas station. Not really a place for walking.
The Wall-rocket has an interesting smell, flat and metallic - I don't like it at all, and Hamlyn's Natural History of Europe gives Stinkweed as an alternative name. Then, a websearch for Diplotaxis muralis tells me that gardeners group it with Eruca sativa, as Rucola Salad... ah, didn't I recognize that smell! I cannot stand Rucola, either. Not that I always agree on other weeds deemed ill-smelling in the literature...
OK: in the two years since I wrote this I have learned to appreciate Rucola - writing about it, among other things, turned my attention to it and made me taste it in another mindframe. These things happen. But they don't happen fast.
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