S40 FAMILY HERBAL. 



They grow irregularly on the stalks, and have no 

 foot stalks. The flowers are very small, 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 a leafy 

 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. 



MiTiiHii) ate Mustard. Thlaspi incano folio. 



A utile wild plant, common in corn-fields. 

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

 upright, and not much branched ; the leaves are 

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

 The flowers are small and white, and the pods 

 which fohow them are roundish and little, not flatted 

 as in the former kind, nor surrounded with a fo- 

 jiaceous edge. The leaves grow very thick upon the 

 stalk, and each has as it. were a couple of little ones at 

 the nasc. 



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

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

 great, for thev seem to have the same virtues, and 

 neitht r is minded, except as ingredients in com- 

 positions. 



IS hum i Tiifje. Jtfj/rrha. 



A tkee concerning which we have but very 

 imperfect accounts, and those not well warranted 

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

 branches are numerous, and have thorns on them ; 



