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Th BRITISH HERBAL 
Braffica {puria caule magis foliofo birfutior. Others, 
Pelofella filiquofe altera f[pecies. 
4. Branched Turritis. 
Turritis ramofa folits imis bifpidis. 
The root is fmall, flender, white, and fur- 
nifhed with a few fibres, 
"The firft leaves are oblong, and confiderably 
broad: they are of a greyifh green, and fome- 
what hairy, and rough to the touch: thefe lie 
fpread upon the ground in a circular manner. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, weak, and 
branched. 
DIVISION 
Great, various-leaved Turritis. 
Turritis major foliis variis. 
The root is long, thick, and white, and is 
furnifhed with many fibres. 
The firft leaves are very long: they lie in a 
circular tuft upon the ground, and fome of them 
are irregularly cut, and undulated at the edges, 
others altogether undivided: they are all rough 
to the touch, and of a dufky green. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, thick, up- 
right, very little branched, and two feet high. 
The leaves on thefe are numerous, irregularly 
placed, and altogether different from thofe about 
the root: they are of a form approaching to tri- 
angular, broad at the bafe, where they furround 
the ftalk, and fmaller all the way to the point; 
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The leaves on thefe ftand irregularly, and are 
but few: they have no footftalks; they are of 
the fame greyifh green with thofe from the root, 
but they are not hairy. 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
The feed-veftels are long and flender: they 
ufually are feen in a loofe fpike, under a little 
tuft of flowers, and are full of fmall, brown 
feeds. : 
It is common on walls and dry banks, and 
flowers in April. 
Ray calls it Braffica [puria minima foliis birfutis 
et glabris. Others, Pilofella Siliquofa thalit. The 
common people, Codded moufear. 
I. BR T.1S:H |S. PE Ca EAs: 
and they are of a bluifh green colour, and of a 
fmooth and gloffy furface. 
The flowers ftand in tufts at the tops of the 
ftalks, and are white, with a tinge of yellowifh, 
fometimes more, fometimes lefs. 
The feed-veffels are long and flender, and the 
feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is a native of Germany, and many other 
parts of Europe, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Brafica fylueftris foliis circa 
radicen chicoraceis, Others, Turritis major. 
The feeds of the ¢urritis are accounted excel- 
lent in the rheumatifm,; and in fome places are a 
common family-medicine for that purpofe: but 
they are not known in the fhops. 
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HEDGE MUSTARD. 
Bomkichie’ | Lo Ma Oe MM, 
if Bide flower is compofed of four petals, regularly difpofed crofs-ways; thefe are oblong, blunt 
at the end, and have narrow,’ fmall bottoms, which ftand erect, and are of the length of the 
cup: the cup is formed of four little, oblong leaves, which are coloured, and converge at their points, 
and the whole falls with the flower: the feed-veffel is very long, and very flender, and the feeds are 
{mall and round. 
Linnzus places this among the zefradynamia filiquofa, four of the fix threads in the flower being 
longer than the other two, and the feed-vefiel being a regular pod. 
This author introduces into this genus fome plants properly belonging to the others of the fame 
clafs: but a trip of this kind is the more pardonable, becaufe there is no clafs in which the genera are 
fo very lightly diftinguifhed one from another. 
As there is no fingle word to denote this genus in the Englifh language, it will be advifable to ufe 
the Latin name Ery/inum the more, as the plant commonly known under the name of hedge muftard 
in the fhops, properly belongs, as Mr. Ray firft obferved, to another genus, This has been already 
defcribed and figured in its place. 
DAV LS: 10 Negi: 
1. Treacle Wormfeed. 
Epyfinum anguftifolium camelina digium, 
The root is long, white, woody, and furnifhed 
with many fibres. 
The ftalks are round, firm, upright, and of a 
pale green, or purplifh: they are about two feet 
and a half high, and not much branched, 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
The leaves are long and narrow: they ftand 
in great number upon the ftalks, and in an irre- 
gular manner. They have no footftalks : they ar¢ 
narrow at the bafe, and broadeft about the middle: 
their colour is a pale green, and they have a bit- 
ter tafte, as has alfo the pith within the ftalk. 
The flowers grow in fmall tufts at the tops of 
the ftalks, and they are fmall and yellow. 
The 
