OTTLPIPEB'S OOKPLSTl RXBBiiL. 2M 



of a lighter greeiL The flowers stand In a loose spike at the 

 top of the stalks, of a faint yellow, with streaks of black. 



Place, — It has been found upon Salisbury Plain. 



Time. — It is an annual, and olooms in July. 



OocemmerU and Virtiies, — This species is under Venus, 

 and the juice is excellent in asthmas, and all diseases of the 

 lungs. The best way of using it is in the form of a syrup ; 

 it will relieve oppression and obstructions of the breast, and 

 core inveterate coughs and severe colds in the stomach. 



ROCKET CRESS (DWARF.)— {76«rw Nudicaulut,) 



Descrip, — This is a small plant, with pale leaves, which 

 fffow near the bottom, they grow in a thick tuft, without 

 Footstalk, but are narrowest at the base, and broadest to- 

 wards the end ; they are notched at the edges. The stalk ia 

 round, upright, and divided into many branches. It is of a 

 pale green colour, and about ten inches high. The flowers 

 stand in great numbers on the tops of the branches, and 

 they are small and white. 



Place. — It is an annual, and grows upon commons. It ia 

 found about Putney and Barnes Common. 



Place, — It flowers in May. 



Oovemmeni and Virtues. — This is under the Moon. All 

 these Cresses are celebrated as remedies for all the diseases 

 of the urinary passage. The expressed juice, or the infusion 

 of the whole plant, is the best way of taking it. 



ROCKET (GARDEN.)— (J^rwca Sativa.) 



Detcrip. — This has a slender, white woody root, of a hot 

 taste ; the leaves are shaped like mustard, but smoother ; 

 the stalks grow two or three feet high, clothed with lesser 

 leaves, having on their tops many flowers of a whitish yel- 

 low colour, full of dark purple veins ; the seed-vessels are 

 long, slender, and smooth, parted in two by a thin mem- 

 brane, and open at the sides when the seed is ripe. 



Place. — It is sown in gardens. 



Time. — It flowers here in August 



Oavemment and Virtites.—Al\ this kind of Rockets are 

 martial plants. This species is celebrated against diseases 

 of the longs. The juice is excellent in asthmas, and a syrup 

 of it in all oppressions and obstructions of the breast ; as 

 siso against inveterate coughs. 



