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2.64 , Oi the Hiftorie of Plants. Lib. z. 



into many (mall branches,whereupon grow fmall white floures compofed of 4 leaues, after which 

 fucceed round flat husks or feed veflels/ct vpon the ftalke by couples, as it were fundry paires of 

 fpe£r.acles,wherein the feed is contained, fharpe and biting as the other. This is fometimes feene 

 with yellow floures. ■ « 



t & Clownes muftardharha fhort white fibrous roor,from whence arifethvp a ftalke of th 

 height of a foor,vvhich a little aboue the rootdiuides it felfe into fome four or fiue branches and 

 thefc again are fubdiuided into other fmaller , (b that it refembles a little fhrub : Iongift nar ' rotv 

 Jcaues notched after the manner of Sciatica Creffes by turnes garnifh thefe branches , and thefc 

 Jcaues are as bitter as the fmaller Centaurie. The floures ftand thick together at the tops of thefe 

 branches in manner of little vmbels,and are commonly of a light b lew and white mixed together 

 being feldome only white or yellow. After the flours fucceed feed- vefTels after the maner ol" other 

 plants of this kind,and in them is contained a fmall hot Ceed. f 



7 Buck ler mu ftard hath many large leaues fpred vpon the ground like H'ter actum or Hawjcc. 

 wced,fomewhat more toothed or fnipc about the edges : among which comes vp ftalks fmall and 

 brirtfe,a cubit high 3 gafniilied w i tn many f ma ll pale yellowifh flours : in whofe place fucceed ma- 

 ny round flat cods or pouches,buckler-fafhion,containing.a feed like vnto the others. 



8 Small Buckler mu ftard is a very fmall bafe or low plant,hauingwhitifh leaues likethofeof 

 wiIdTime, let vpon fmall weake and tender branches. The floures grow at the top like the other 

 Buckler muftard . The feed -velTels are like,not fo round, fomwhat ftiarpe pointed,fharp in taft and 

 burning the tongue. The whole plant lieth flat vpon the ground like wild Tyme. ' 



-4 a m tf 



iff The Place. 



fundry 



and in fandy dry and barren ground. I haue found it in corn fields betwixt Croidonand Godftone 

 in Surrey at Southfleet in Kent.by the path that leads from Harnfey (a fmall village by London) 

 vnto Waltham croffe,and in many other places. 



The other grow vnder hedges oftentimes in fields,and in ftony and vntoiled places. They grow 

 plentifully in Bohemiaand Germanyrthey are feen likewife on the ftony banks of the fiuer Rhine. 

 They are likewife to be found in England in fundry places wilde, the which I haue gathered into 

 mygarden. % I haue found none but the firft and fecond growing wilde in any part of England a 

 yet ; yet I deny not,but that fome of the other may be found^ut not all. t 



^ The Time. 



Thefe Treacle muftards are found with theirflours from May to Iuly,and the feed is ripe in the 

 end of Auguft. ' « r 



^ The Names. 



The Grecians call thefe kinds of herbs, sum, s^^/m, 2»»*> •>«. of thehusk or feed-veffell, which 

 is like a little flue Id. They haue alfo other names which be found amongft the baftard words : As 

 Scandulaceum > CapfeIU } Pesg*flinaceus.'Neit.hcr be the later writers without their names,as Naftrttm 

 teZhrumjnd Shaft rufiicum : it is called in Dutch,*©tlOefceefe X in Vrenchfeneue f*uvage:iaty- 



Churles muftard,and wild CrelTes. 



Thlalp 



$ 1 This is ThUJpi Diojcoridis Drab*, aut Chamelitu folio oiLobel : Thlafbi Latins of 



hlafpiofCM ■'■ ' X 



2 



Xhlafti vulgatipmum vaccarU folio oflobel • the firft Thlafbi of \Matthiolus 



3 This is Thlafp 



ifpi whofe feed is vfed 





4 This is ThUJpi minus oi*Dodon<eusjrhU(pi angup folium of Buehfius : Thlafbi minus forttnft 

 firtdis folio & r.of Lobel : and Najtmittmfylvejtre of Thalius. 



.\ 



J This is Alyffonoi* Matthiolus : ThUJpi Grtcumfolygonati folio 



6 This the Authorof the Hift.Lugd. calls Nafiurtinm fylveflre : Tabern. calls iiThhJpi #»*'»*< 



7 Lobel termes this ThUJpi farvum Hieracifolium y and LunarU lutea Monfbelienfir— 



8 ihi%i%ThUJpi minus clypeatumSerpllifolio of Lobel. $ ^" 



Tbefigwejof thrfctwoUft mentioned we re trwfpofed in the former edition. 



IF 



** _ 



^j TheFertues. 



third degr 



A uoSh 7™£^lS^tr^ll>™* a '& & **»** vpw«a and do*n«,i F* 



n ir ir ^ * «w*^iu me ociauca, ana is 



ftard feed ferueth. 

 The feeds of thefe herbes be fo extreme hnr **a «ji-« 



M fl 



working, that beeing taken in t& 



great 



