258 Ihe U/eful Fa?nilj Herbal 



' Tr E A C LE Mu ST AR D. 



THLASPI DISCORDIS. 



Little wild Plant with broad Leaves, white 



Flowers, and flat Pods, common in dry 



Places. It is eight Inches high, the Stalk is round. 



and ftriated. The Leaves are oblong, and broad, 



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of a pale green Colour, and dentated round the 

 Edges. They grow irregularly on the Stalks, and 

 have no Foot- Stalks. The Flowers are very 

 fmall, a little Tuft of them ftands at the Top of 

 the Stalk, and the Pods follow them, fo that the 

 lifual Appearance, when the Plant is in Flo\^er, 

 is a fhort Spike of the Pods,, with a little Clufler, 

 of Flowers on the Top ; the Pods are large, flat, 

 roundifh, and edged with a leafy Border. The 

 Seeds are fmall, brown, and of a hotTafle. 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. 



MiTHRIDATE MuSTARD- 



THLASPI INCANO FOLIO, 



p^ Little wild Plant common in Corn Fields. It 



is of a Foot high, the Stalks are round, firm, 

 upright, and not much branched, the Leaves arc 

 long, narrow, a little hairy, and of a dufky Green. 

 The Flowers are fmall and white, and the Pods 

 which follow them, are roundifh and little, not 

 flatted as in the former Kind, nor furrounded with 

 a foliaceous Edge. The Leaves grow very thick 

 upoa the Stalk, and each has as it were a Couple 

 of little ones at the Bafe. 



The Seed of this is nfed alfo, at lead in Xame, 

 for the Crefs Seed ferves for both : The Matter is 



greats for they feem to have the fame 



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