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The BRAM tS Al ERG ADE 
There is no part of Linneus’s condué that will in: manys cafe 
have taken occafion thus far to explain here my reafons for differin 
coming under confideration is in itfelf, and in its proper.name, 
of this fault. 
Of this plant, diftinguithed by its proper charaéters, of which th 
is the principal, there is but one fpecies. Thisis defcribed by the antients under 
has virtues attributed to it with juftice which belong to no other plant in fo emin 
is a farther reafon for preferving its name, continuing it appropriated to the pla 
no other, 
Sciatica Crefs. 
\Dberis. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. : ; 
The firft leaves are numerous, fmall, ob- 
long, and of a pale green. They rife in a thick 
tuft: they have no footftalks, but are narroweft 
at the bafé, and broadeft toward the end; and 
they are indented at the edges. : ; 
The ftalk is round, upright, and divided into 
many branches: it is of a pale green colour, and 
about ten inches high. pratt 
The leaves on the main ftalk, toward its lower 
part, are oblong, broad, and ‘tharply {errated, 
like thofe .from the root; but thofe’ on the 
branches, and on the upper part of the ftalk, are 
narrow, and undivided at the, edges, and of a 
paler green. : 
The flowers ftand in great numbers on the tops 
of the branches, and they are fmall and white, 
The feed-veflel is {mall and broad, ‘and the 
feeds are numerous and. minute. arp 
. It is frequent in the fouthern parts of Eng- 
Jand, though lefs common in other places. It 
flowers in July. Fe 
C. Bauhine calls it Iberis latiore folio. - Others, 
Jberis, 4 33 
HGH Briones Ut 2g 
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bear. lef, palliation than this, J 
¢ from him, as the plant which ‘is 
one ofthe moft, ftriking inftances 
€ extreme fmallnefs of the petals 
the name iberis, ‘and 
ent a.degree,.. This 
nt, and giving it to 
Diofcorides fpeaks with great earneftnefs of the 
virtues of this plant againft the {ciatica; and we 
read in other of the oid Greeks; ‘and in the Ro- 
mans who copied them, the moft furprifing ‘acs 
counts of its efficacy in the fame diforder,. The 
manner in which they. ufed it was this, 
They bruifed a great quantity of the root in a 
mortar, and mixed in with it hogs lard... This 
ointment they rubbed well in, not only on the . 
hip, but alfo up the fide, and all down the thigh ; 
and after this they covered the parts with a vaft 
plaifter of it, fpread toa confiderable thicknefs. 
This application was fuffered to remain on four 
hours, or in tenderer bodies only three; and in 
this time it acted as a finapifm, heating and in- 
flaming the fkin, < agent 
Tt was then taken off, and the parts foftly an- 
ointed with oil and Wine, and the perfon after- 
wards was put into a warm bath, Upon coming 
gut, the part was wrapt round with a good thick- 
nefs of foft wool; and this generally performed 
a cure at once. If any pain remained, or the dif- 
order threatened to return, the fame method was 
repeated, at the end of three weeks, 
Our country-people in fome places ufe the 
bruifed herb for the fame purpoies, and with 
great fuccefs; but it is not fo much regarded as 
it deferves in the common courfe of practice, 
VIIL 
GOLD OF PLEASURE. 
MYAGRUM. 
HE flower is compofed of four petals, which open in a regular crofs direction : they are {mall 5 
roundifh, and obtufe at the ends, and they have very narrow bottoms. 
The cup is compofed of 
four little leaves; they are oval, hollow, and ftand apart ; the whole cup is coloured, and falls with 
the flower : the feed-veffel is fhort and fwelled, of a fomewhat heart-fafhioned form, and terminated 
by a firm point. 
Linnzus places this among the tetradynamia filiculofa y-the flower having four longer and two fhorter 
threads, and the-feed- veffel being a regular Gilicule. 
He alfo joins very properly, under the fame name 
{everal plants,-improperly, called by others fpecies of abffims 2% genus of very different charaéter. 
BUY ea ON hn 8 Rid TSH SP Bek Bee 
2o¥2-Common.Myagrum, 
> “Myagrum. vulgare. 
The root is, long, lender; white, and fur- 
nifhed with many fibres. : ; 
~The ftalk is round, firm, upright, a foot.and 
half high, and divided into a great number of 
branches, i ; a est 
The leaves are numerous,..and they are placed 
with an agreeable regularity from. its bottom. to 
its top: they are oblong, narrow, and of a pale 
greens: they adhereto the flalk by abroad bafe, 
and are from thence fmaller to‘ the extremity, 
where they terminate in a point; and they are 
tharply ferrated atthe edges. 
The flowers ftand in little tuftsoat the tops of 
the branches, ‘and.are ofa gold yéllow. 
The feed-veffels are fhort and hard :° the feeds 
arecyellow. ° g RST eines) 
It is fotind in corn-fields in forne parts of Eng- 
Jand, ‘and “flowers in July. : 
C. Bauhing 
