240 FAMILY HERBAL. 



They grow irregularly on the stalks, and have no 

 footstalks. TJie flowers are very smallj a little 

 tuft of them stands at the top of the stalk, and the 

 pods follow them ; so that the usual appearance, 

 when the plant is in flower, is a short spike of the 

 pods, with a little cluster of flowers on the top ; 

 the pods are large, flat, roundish, and edged with 

 aleafv border. The seeds are small, brown, and 

 of a hot taste. The seed is the part used ; but 

 our druggists generally sell the seeds of the garden 

 cress^ in the place of it. It is not much regarded^ 



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MiTHRiDATE Mustard. Thlaspi incano folio. 

 A LITTLE wild plant, common in corn-fields. 



It is of a foot high ; the stalks are round, iirui, 

 upright, and not much branched ; the leaves are 

 long, narrow, a little hairj, and of a dusky green. 

 The flowers are small and white, and the pods 

 which follow them are roundish and little, not 

 flatted as in the former kind, nor surrounded with 

 a foliaceous edge. The leaves grow very thick 

 upon the stalk, and each has as it were a couple 

 of little ones at the base. 



The seed of this is used also, at least in name^ 

 for the cress seed serves for both : the matter is not 

 great, for thej seem to have the same virtues^ and 

 neither is miuded^ except as ingredients in com- 

 positions. 



The Myrrh Tree* Mijrrlia. 



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A TREE concerning* which we have but very 

 imperfect accounts, and those not well warranted 

 for genuine. All that we hear of it is, that the 



branches are numerous^ stod have thorns on them ; 



