258. The Ujeful Family Horbal. 
Treacte MusTaRD. 
THLASPI DISCORDIS. | 
A bitte wild Plant with broad Leaves, white 
Flowers, and flat Pods, common in ‘dty 
Places. Tt is eight Inches high, the Stalk is round, 
and ftriated. “The Leaves are oblong, and broad, 
of a pale green Colour, and déntated round -the 
Edges. They: grow irregularly on the Stalks, and 
~ have no Foot-Stalks. The Flowers are very 
‘fmaill, a little Tuft of them ftands at the Top of 
the Stalk, and the Pods follow them, fo that the - 
‘uftal Appearance, when the Plant is in Flower, 
is a fhort Spike of the Pods, with a little Clufter, 
of Flowers on the Top; the Pods are large, flat, 
-foundifh, and ‘edged with a leafy Border. The 
Seeds are fmall, brown, and ofa hot Tafte. The 
Seed is the Part ufed, but our Druggifts gene; 
rally fell the Seeds of the Garden-Crefs, in the | 
Place of it. It is not much regarded. Biss 
~ MiTuripatre MustarpD. _ 
_ THLASPIINCANO FOLIO. 
. JA Little wild Plant common in Corn Fields. Tt 
~ is Of a Foot high, the Stalks are round, firm; 
upright, and not much branched, the Leaves are 
long, narrow, alittle hairy, and of a dufky Green. 
_ The Flowets are {mall and white, and the Pods | 
' Which follow them, are roundith and little, not 
- flatted as in the fornier Kind; norfurrounded with | 
foliaceous Edge. The Leaves grow very thick 
upon the Stalk, and cach has as it were a Couple 
"of little ones at the Bafe. sie 
a, ~ Seed of this is ufed alfo, at leaft in Name, 
YM xe Crefs Seed ferves for both: The Matter is 
not great, for they feem to have the fame Vir- 
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