The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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5. Swines Crefs. 
Nafturtium fupinum capfulis verrucofis. 
The root is long, flender, white, and furnifhed 
with many fibres. 
_ The firft leaves fpread themfelves beautifully 
upon the ground, forming a regular circle : they 
are long, moderately broad, and very deeply di- 
vided in the pinnated manner, and their colour 
is a frefh and pleafant green: the fegments are 
narrow, and divided into three points, or notched 
on each fide at the end. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, green, and 
divided into many branches: they are thick and 
firm; but they do not rife up from the ground, 
fpreading themfelves every way like the leaves. 
DAV 1:S;1.0-N .._II. 
1. Garden Crefs. 
Nafturtium foliis variis. 
The root is long and flender, and has nume- 
rous fibres. 
The firft leaves are long, narrow, and vari- 
oufly and irregularly divided: they are of a frefh 
' green colour, a tender fubftance, and a pleafing 
acrid tafte. 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, and of a 
whitifh green, not much branched, and two feet 
high. ; 
The leaves on this are numerous, and placed 
irregularly : they are divided in the pinnated 
manner into narrow fegments, very varioufly 
and irregularly, as thofe at the root; but’the di- 
vifions of thefe are narrower. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches, and are fmall and white. 
GenkEl Nee Uses 
The flowers grow in clufters in the bofoms of 
the leaves, and they are finall and white. 
The feed-veffels are fhort and rough : the feeds 
are fmall and brown. 
It is common every where by way-fides, and 
flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ambrofia campeftris repens. 
Others, Coronopus Ruellii. 
All thefe creffés are good againft {corbutic 
complaints ; and operate by urine. The laft {pe- 
cies is of late years become famous as an ingre- 
dient in thofe medicines, the receipt for which the 
government purchafed of Mrs. Stevens for the 
cure of the ftone. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
The feed-veflels are alfo fmall: the feeds are 
brown. : 
It is a native of Germany, but is fown in our 
gardens for the ufe of the table, the feed-leaves 
being excellent among what is called young fal- 
lading. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nafturtium fylveftre vulga- 
tum. Others, Nafturtium hortenfe. 
Culture occafions a great deal of variety in the 
leaves of this plant. 
We fee them fometimes curled in a very beau- 
tiful manner at the fides, and fometimes undi- 
vided and broad, without fo much as indentings 
at the edges. Under thefe appearances it has 
been defcribed by fome as two diftinét fpecies, 
but they are only varieties. 
The plant is of the nature of the feveral wild 
creffes, and is no way to be taken more properly 
than as a fallad. 
XII. 
TREACLE MUSTARD: 
TO EAS ee Paw: 
HE flower is compofed of four petals placed crofs-ways: they are fmall, and of an inverted oval 
form, with very narrow bottoms. 
The cup is formed of four little leaves, which ftand fome- 
what open : they are oval and hollow, and fall with the flower. The feed-veffel is broad, fhort, and 
compreffed; it is narrow at the bafe, and broadeft at the extremity: the feeds are numerous. 
Linnzeus places this among the tetradynamia filiculofa ; the flower having four longer and two fhorter 
threads, and the feed-veflel being a regular filicule. 
He joins the fhepherds purfe to this genus, but without reafon. The feed-veffel in that plant is 
of a very particular form; therefore we have feparated it, and defcribed it in its place: and we 
have here joined feveral proper rh/a/pi to the reft, which -Linnzus feparates under various names. 
Dil VeTSakOON’ 71 
1. Common Thlafpi. 
Thlafpi incanum majus. 
The root is long, flender, white, and fur- 
nifhed with numerous’ fibres. 
The firft leaves are few, and quickly fade: they 
are long, narrow, and fharp-pointed, of a pale 
green, a little hairy, and fupported on long, flen- 
der footftalks. : 
N° 27. 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
The ftalk grows in the centre of thefe, and they, 
grow yellow, and decay as it rifes in height : it is 
firm, round, of a pale green, and a little hairy, 
and toward the top divides into feveral branches. 
The leaves on it are long, narrow, and fharp- 
pointed: they are broadeft at the bafe, and there 
adhere to the ftalk with a kind of appendage or 
point on each fide; and from this part they grow 
fmaller all the way to the end. 
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