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The 
BRITISH HERBAL 
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We have feparated that genus into its proper 
manner by the fame author into their proper gen 
properly underftood by the name cre/s or nafturtium, 
blifhed from all the other filiculofe plants. 
DEV rs PON T. 
- 4: Narrow-leaved Crefs. 
Nofturtium anguftifolium. 
The root is long, thick, white, and furnifhed 
with many fibres. 
The leaves that rife from it are oblong, and 
‘narrow, and form a little thick tuft: they are of 
a pale green, cut in deeply at the edges, and 
fharp-pointed. 
The ftalk is round, thick, firm, upright, very 
much branched, and a foot or more in height. 
The leaves ftand thick upon it, and in a per- 
feétly irregular manner: they are oblong, nar- 
row, and of a pale green: they have no foot- 
ftalks ; they are not at all indented at the edges, 
and they terminate in a fharp point. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 
in little clufters, and they are very {mall and 
white. 
The feed veffels are fhort and hard: the feeds: 
-are large and brown. 
The whole plant has a ftrong acrid tafte. 
It is common by the road-fides in Effex, and 
fome other parts of the kingdom, though utterly 
unknown in many counties. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Naffurtium fylveftre ofyridis 
folio. Others, Thla/pi anguftifolium, and Thlafpi 
minus. : 
The plant in its general afpect has much of the 
appearance of the common garden-crefs, efpecially 
while the radical leaves remain ; but they are ge- 
nerally of fhort continuance, fading as the plant 
flowers. 
2. Rock Crefs. 
Nofturtium pumilium petreum. 
The root is flender, oblong, and furnifhed 
with a great number of fmall fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a {mall round tuft: they 
are oblong, narrow, and very deeply finuated at 
the edges; fo that they have much the appear- 
ance of the pinnated divifion: they are of a pale 
green at their firft growth, but they foon become 
brown. 
The ftalks rife among thefe feveral together , 
they are round, flender, upright, and about four 
inches high. ; 
The leaves on them are very fmall and few ; 
fometimes they are altogether naked, and there 
are rarely more than two or three on the ftalk 
when the. plant is moft vigorous and healthful : 
thefe are fhort, and deeply divided into three or 
four fegments. 
The flowers ftand at the top in a little tuft, 
and they are very {mall and white. 
The feed-veffel is fhort, and the feeds are very 
fmall. 
The flowers Jaft but a little while on this plant, 
‘place, and fome others introduced in this confufed 
era; and fhall here treat diftinétly of thofe ‘{pecies 
and feparated by thofe characters here efta- 
B Ro Bees HS PFE Cases: 
but there are ufually found on the tops of the 
ftalks. clufters of the feed-veffels, which get a 
brown colour. , 
It is not uncommon in barren hilly places. It 
flowers in April. 
Tabernamontanus calls it Nafturtium petreum , 
a name moft have copied : but fome call it Burfa 
paftoris minor. : 
3. Rocket-Crefs. 
Nafturtium foliis eruce. 
The root is long, flender, white, and furnifhed 
with many fibres. 
The firft leaves grow in a little tuft, and are 
oblong, and deeply divided in the pinnated man- 
ner: they are of a faint green, and of a tender 
fubftance. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, branched 
and a foot high. : 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the root; » 
but they are fmaller, narrower, and more divided: 
the fegments are very flender, a little waved, and 
pointed at the ends. 
The flowers are fmall, and ftand in tufts at the 
tops of the branches. 
The feed-veffels are alfo fmall, and the feeds 
are brown. 
Tt is found on fome hilly paftures, and flowers 
in Augutt. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nafurtium fylveftre eruce 
affine. Others, Eruca nafturtio cognata tenuifolia, 
& ¥ has much the afpect in general of the rocket 
ind. 
4. Fine-leaved Crefs, 
Nofturtium foliis tenuiffiime divifis. 
The root is a fmall, oblong fibre, with a few 
very flender thread- hanging from it in various 
parts. ae 
The’ firft leaves rife irregularly, a few in a 
clufter, and are of a pale green: they are oblong 
narrow, and very beautifully divided in the pit 
nated manner: each confifts of fix or eight pairs 
of extremely fine fegments, and an odd one at the 
end; but they are all connected by a rim of 
leaf that runs all along the middle rib. 
The ftalks rife in the midft of this tuft, and 
pe ha ie weak, flender, and very much 
The flowers are {mall and white: they ftand 
at the tops of the branches in little clufters. 
The pods are fhort and very fmall, and the 
feeds are minute and yellowith, 
It is found on the hilly paftures in the welt of 
England, and among rocks. It flowers in May. 
Ray calls it Nafturtiolum montanum annuum te- 
nuifine divifum. Plakenet, Naffurtium petreum 
aunuum noftras. i 
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