The. BR ITH StH HER R B AT, 
DIVISION L 
tt Common Wild Rocket. 
Eruca fylvefris vulgatior. 
The root is long and. thick, and is furnifhed 
with many fibres, 
The firft leaves rife in a large tuft, and are 
long and beautifully divided: they have fhort 
footftalks: their colour is a pale green, and their 
divifion is fo deep, and into fuch regular feg- 
ments, that they refemble pinnated leaves. 
The ftalks are numerous,.and of a pale green: 
they are divided into branches, and ufually lean ; 
efpecially toward the root. 
~The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and are 
like thofe which grow immediately from the root, 
large, long, and. deeply divided into fegments, 
fo that they appear pinnated. 
The flowers are yellow, and they ftand in a 
kind of {pikes at the tops of the ftalks. 
The pods are long and flender, and the feeds 
fmall and brown. 
The whole plant has'a difagreeable fmell. 
It is frequent on old walls, and among rubbifh 
in many parts of England. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Eruca major lutea caule afpero. 
Others, Eruca fylvefris. 
2. Little, wild Rocket. 
Eruca fylveftris minima. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
~The firft leaves rife in atuft, and fpread them- 
felves every way upon the ground: they are long, 
narrow, and deeply divided at the edges into nu- 
merous fegments, fo. that they refemble the pin- 
nated kind. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, upright, flen- 
der, very little branched, and eight inches high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and are 
long, narrow, and deeply divided, as the others, 
into the pinnated form, but with fmaller feg- 
ments. ; 
The flowers are {mall and yellow: they ftand 
in little tufts at the tops of the ftalks, and are 
fucceeded by long, flender pods. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 2 
It is found in our northern counties, as alfo in 
the Ifle of Man. It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Eruca fylvefris minor lutea 
burfe paftoris folio, Ray, Eruca monenfis laciniata 
lutea. 
3. Water-Rocket.] 
Eruca aquatica, 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves are long and beautiful; each 
is compofed of five or fix pair of pinne or fmall 
leaves joined toa middle rib, with an odd one at 
the end: they are of a yellowifh green, and of a 
tender fubftance. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and branched: 
they are a foot and ahalf high, but not very 
erect. 
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The leaves are placed irregularly on them, and 
are of the fame form with thofe from the root, 
the feveral pina or fmaller leaves being jagged 
alfo in two or three places, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches, and are {mall and yellow: the pods are 
flender, and but moderately long. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is common by rivers, and about the edges 
of fhallow ponds. ‘It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Eruca Lylveftris minor luteo 
Store. The generality of writers, from its place 
of growth, not common to the other, Eyuca 
aquatica. 
4. Common Winter-Crefs, 
Eruca glabra flore minore barbarea diffa. 
The root is long and thick, and has a few 
fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a tuft, and have a very 
pretty appearance: they are long, large, and of 
a very deep, but glofly green: they are divided, 
fomewhat in the pinnated manner, into two pairs 
of fegments, and a large, broad part at the end. 
The ftalk is upright, firm, ftriated, and two 
feet high. : 
The leaves ftand thick upon it, and are like 
thofe from the root in fhape and colour. 
The flowers are {mall and yellow : they ftand 
in a thick tuft at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches, and are followed by longifh, flender 
pods. 
The feeds are numerous. {mall, and brown. 
It is common every where by hedges, efpe- 
cially where the ground is fomewhat damp. It 
flowers in April, 
C. Bauhine calls it Eruca lutea, feu barbarea, 
Others, Nafturtium hybernum, : 
5. Early Winter-Crefs. 
Barbara precox foliis freqaentius finuatis: 
The root is long, flender, white, and full of 
fibres. ‘ 
The firft leaves are fmall, and ftand ina thick 
little tuft: they are compofed each, as it were, of 
three pair of pinnz, and a great rounded leaf at 
the end; but the divifions do not reach to the 
rib, and they are only parts of an entire leaf thus 
divided into fegments. 
The ftalk is round, flender, yellow, and a foot 
high. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on it, and are 
few: they are deeply divided into feveral pairs of 
fegments, with an odd Jeaf at the end of each, 
and are of a yellowifh colour: their principal dif- 
ference from thofe of the common kind, is in the 
frequency of this divifion. se ad 
The flowers are fmall and yellow, and the pods 
are {mall and flender. 
It is common on ditch-banks, and flowers in 
April, a week or fortnight before the common 
kind. 
It might feem only a variety of that; but ex- 
Ppp perience ~ 
