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The feed-veffels are long, flender, and {quared ; 
they ftand in a kind of fpikes along the upper 
part of the ftalk, when the plant has been fome- 
time in flower. 
The feeds are numerous, fmall, oblong, and 
yellow, and are very bitter. 
It is frequent in the fen countries, as the Ifle of 
Ely, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Myagrum Jiliqua longa, 
Others, Cameling, 
The feeds of this plant are accounted excellent 
againft worms, and are much ufed by the country- 
people; but they are not known in the fhops. 
They are alfo given againft obftructions of the 
vifcera, and in the rheumatifm and jaundice, with 
faccefs : they operate moderately by urine. This 
“medicine deferves to be more known. 
2, Broad-leaved fmooth Eryfimum. 
Eryfimum latifolium glabrum, 
The root is long, white, flender, and fur- 
nifhed with many fibres, 
The firft leaves are numerous, Jarge, and very 
deeply divided: they are placed on flender foot- 
ftalks, and are deeply cut, almoft to the rib, into 
a number of fegments, in fomewhat like a pin- 
nated form. : 
The ftalk is round, thick, upright, not much 
branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the root, 
being divided very deep at. the fides into four or 
five pairs of fegments : they are perfectly fmooth, 
and of a yellowifh green. 
The flowers are fmall and yellow: they ftand 
in tufts at the tops of the ftalks, and are but of 
fhort continuance. 
The feed-vefiels are long and flender, and they 
ftand at a good diftance from the ftalk; the feeds 
are {mall brown, 
DIVISION IL FO 
1. Arabian Muftard, 
Enyfimum draba lutea diftum. 
The root is long, thick, white, and furnifhed 
with many fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a fmall tuft, and are 
fupported on long footftalks: they are oblong, 
and confiderably broad, indented at the edges, 
and fharp-pointed. 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, and not. 
much branehed: its ufual height is two feet, 
but it fometimes rifes to twice that, or more. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are like 
thofe from the root: they have fhort footftalks, 
and are oblong, ferrated, fharp-pointed, and of 
a dufky green. ; 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in a 
kind of fpikes, and they are of more duration 
than moft of the others: they are fucceeded by 
long and very flender pods, in which are longifh 
yellow feeds. 3 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Draba lutea filiquis ftrictif- 
Suis. ‘ 
It is common in wafte places, and flowers in 
June. 1 
C.Bauhine calls it Exy/imum latifoliam majus gla~ 
brum. Others, Eryfimum latifolium Neapolitanym, 
This name comes from Parkinfon, and is il} 
adapted to fo common an Englifh plant. 
3. _Flixweed. 
Eryfinum foliis tenuiffime divifis Sophia diftum. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, and very beautifully 
formed : they are pinnated, and the pinne or di- 
vifions are divided, and fometimes fubdivided 
again ; fo that the leaf is compofed of innume- 
rable very fine and delicate parts. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, of a pale. 
green, and a yard high. 
Tt is very much branched, and thick fet in alf 
parts with leaves, 
Thefe ftand irregularly, and refemble thofe 
from the root: they are very finely divided, and 
of a. deep, but not unpleafing green, : 
The flowers are fmall and yellow, and they 
ftand in little tufts at the tops of all the branches 
The feed-veffels are very fender, long, and 
green: the feedsare numerous, and extremely fmall, 
It is common in wafte places, and flowers in 
July, ; 
C. Bayhine calls it Nafurtium fylveftre tenuif- 
Sime divifum. Others, Sophia chirurgorum. The 
common people, Flixweed, a corrupt way of 
fpeaking Fluxweed. 
This name has been given it for its virtues 
which ought to make it more regarded. z 
The feeds are aftringent, and the juice more 
fq: either of thefe, or a decoétion of the plane, 
ftop fluxes and hemorrhages in a very fafe and 
happy manner. : 
R°ESE G N@-SoPeb CF Bs: 
The whole plant has a fiery tafte, byt the root 
moft of all. 
Tt is an excellent medicine in rheumatic com- 
plaints, and in obftructions of the vifcera, 
2. Great-flowered Eryfimum. 
Eryfimum flore‘aureo magno. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres, 
The firft leayes are numerous, long, large, 
and very beautifully divided: they fpread them- 
felves upon the ground in a circular manner, and 
they are finugted very deeply in the pinnated 
form; each leaf is formed of five or fix pairs of 
thefe fegments, united by a rim of a leaf joining 
the rib; and they are of an irregularly-triangu- 
lar figure. 
The ftalk is upright, firm, round, not much 
branched, and two feet high. ‘ 
The leaves on it are long, narrow, and like 
thofe of the root, but with fewer divifions. 
The flowers are large, and of a fine yellow, 
The pods are long and flender, and the feeds 
f{mall, numerous, and round. 
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