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6. Small perfoliate Thlafpi. 
Thlafpi perfoliatum minus. 
The: root’is a {mall, white fibre, divided at the 
end into a few minute threads, 
The firft leaves are oblong, broad, and rounded 
at the ends: they are not indented at the edges, 
and they have no footftalks: they are of a deep 
dufky green, which they ufually retain to the 
laft; and they remain with the plant in its growth 5 
not, as the others, fade when the flalk rifes. This 
may probably be owing to the fmallnefs of the 
plant, which draws too little nourifhment to.ex- 
hauft them, 
The ftalk is lender, weak, of a pale colour, 
not at all branched, and about four inches high. 
There ufually are three or four leaves on it, 
rarely more: thefe are broad, fhort, oval, and 
fharp-pointed ; and they fo perfeétly furround the 
ftalk at the bafe, that it feems to run through 
DIVISION JU. 
1. The greater perfoliate Thlafpi. 
Thlafpi perfoliatum majus. 
The root is long, thick, and hung with many 
fibres. 
The firft leaves grow in a fimall clufter, and | 
are oblong, broad, and ferrated : they have very 
fhort foot{talks : their colour is a deep green, and 
they are fharp-pointed, 
The ftalks are numerous, round, upright, 
rarely at all branched, and ten inches high. 
The leaves on thefe are placed at diftances, and 
are of a heart-like fhape: they have no footftalks, 
and they are of a pale greyith green: they are 
broadeft at the bafe, where they inclofe the ftalk, 
but do not join behind it; and they are fharply 
ferrated on both fides, as they decreafe in breadth, 
to the extremity, where they terminate in a 
point. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and 
are fmall and white. 
The feed-veffels are fmall, and divided at the 
end pretty deeply.’ 
The feeds are fmall and brown: 
It is a native of the fouth of France, and flowers 
in July. ; 
C. Bauhine calls it Lbla/pi perfoliatum majus. 
"2, Heart-podded Thlafpi: 
Thlafpi filiculis cordatis foliis integris, 
The root is fmall, oblong, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are fmall, and quickly fade : 
they are oblong, and moderately broad: they rife 
from the root without any footftalks ; and they 
are of a pale green, undivided at the edges, and 
obtufe at the end. : 
This ftalk rifes in the midft, and is round and: 
firm, of a pale green, not at all branched, and 
four or five inches high. 
The leaves on it are like thofe from the root, 
oblong and broad, and undivided at the edges : 
they adhere to the ftalk without any footftalks, 
and are obtufe at the ends, ; 
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them: they.are of a pale, green, and not fer 
rated. Y 
: The flowers. are {mall and whi 
little clufters at the tops of the 
fade. 
The feed: veffels are broad, fhort, and flatted ; 
the: feeds are fmall and-brown, 
It is found in barren ftony places in many parts 
of England, and flowers in July. i 
C. Bauhine calls it Th]afpj perfoliatum minus 5 a 
name copied by moft fince his time. Others, 
Lhlafpi minus, and J) blafpi minus Clufii. 
te: they ftarid in 
ftalks, and foon 
All the fpecies of thia/pi agree in their quali- 
ties with the firft defcribed kind’; but that is 
fuppofed to. poffefs them in the moft powerful 
degree. The feeds, are the part that contain 
their virtues in the greateft perfection, and they 
fhould be ufed freth, 
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FOREIGN SPECIES, 
The flowers are few and {mall : they are white, 
| and they are placed at the top of the ftalk ; but 
they quickly fall off : the pods are heart-fathioned, 
and have.a point in the center of the divifion, 
The feeds are {mall and brown: 
It isa native of Spain, and flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Tla/pi capfula cordata pere. 
Srinum. Others, Thlafpi cordatum. 
3. Garlic Thlafpi. 
Thlafpi foliis obtufis dentatis allinm redolens. 
The root is long and thick, and is furnithed 
with a few ftrageling fibres, 
The firft leaves rife in a large tuft, and are 
fupported on long, flender footftalks : they are 
fhort and broad, of an‘oval figure, and of a pale 
green; and they are rounded at the ends, and 
dentated at the edges. 
The ftaiks are numerous, round, whitifh, and 
irregular : they are not much branched, fre- 
quently not at all, and they are not perfectly up- 
right. 
The leaves on thefe are of the fame figure with 
thofe from the root, fhort, oval, obtufe at the 
end, dentated a little, or rather waved at the 
edges, and placed on footftalks toward the lower 
part, but without any at the upper. 
The flowers are larger than in moft of thefe 
kinds, and white: they ftand in a {pike at the 
top of the ftalk. 
The feed-veffels are of an oval figure, very 
little compréffed, dented at the end, and full of 
{mall brown feeds, . 
It is common in the fouth of France, and 
flowers in Auguft, 
The whole plant has a ftrong fmell! of garlic. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scorodo thlafpi minus Aldro- 
vandi. Others, Thlafpi allium redolens. 
4. Little red-Alowered Thlafpi. 
Lhlafpi foliis carnofis flovibus rubris. 
The root’is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
* many fibres. ‘ 
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