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The firft leaves are fmall, but they fpread 
themfelves in a regular clufter upon the ground : 
they are oblong, narrow, and of a pale green; 
and they are of a fiefhy fubftance, and have no 
footftalks. 
The ftalks are weak, lender, and fcarce able 
to fupport themfelves: they are ufually of a redith 
colour toward the top; and in the lower part, 
and fometimes nearly all the way up, they are fo 
clofe covered with leaves, that they are fcarce to 
be feen. : 
Thefe leaves are fhort, and of ‘an oval figure: 
they are very {mall, and they ftand clofe over one 
another: they are naturally of a pale green, but 
they often become red. : 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and 
are moderately large, and ofa pale purple, ftreaked 
with a deeper red. 
The feed-vefféls are oblong and thick: the 
feeds are very fmall, numerous, and brown. 
It is common in the fouth of France, and in 
Italy, and other warm parts of Europe, and is 
mott frequently feen in rocky, hilly places. 
C. Bauhine calls it Th/a/pi parvum faxatile flore 
rubente. Others, Lithonthlafpi carnofo folio. 
5. Great Candy-Tuft. 
Lhlafpi umbellatum Creticum majus. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in little tufts : they are ob- 
long, moderately broad, ferrated at the edges, 
and fharp-pointed : they have no footftalks, but 
rife from the root with a long narrow bafe, and 
they are of a pale green colour. 
The ftalk grows in the centre of thefe, and is 
round, firm, upright, and of a pale green: it 
rifes to a foot or more in height, and is very 
much branched. 
The leaves that grow on the lower part of the 
ftalk refemble thofe from the root; but thofe on 
the upper part of it are narrow, long, and not at 
all divided at the edges. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches; and are white, or of a pale flefh co- 
lour, or of a deep or purplith tinge; for all thefe 
are only accidental varieties in colour, while the 
plant is the fame in every other refpect. 
The feed-veflels are oblong and thick: the 
feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is common in Italy, and in the Greek iflands, 
particularly Crete. , : 
C. Bauhine calls it Th/afpi umbellatum Creticum 
iberidis folio, Others, Thlafpi Candie. We have 
it in our gardens as an ornament to borders, and 
call it Great candy tuft, 
6. Little Candy Tuft. 
Thlafpi umbellatum Creticum minus: 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are oblong, narrow, and of a 
pale green : they have no footftalks, but run up 
with a fmall bafe, and they are a little ferrated at 
the extremity. 
The ftalk is round, thick, of a pale green, 
vaftly fpread out into branches, and about eight 
inches high, ; 
The leaves upon this all the way up are like 
thofe from the root: they are long, narrow, and 
ferrated juft about the tip, but in no other part, 
The flowers grow on the tops of the branches 
ina kind of umbells; and are fmall, white, or 
redifh, and fweet-fcented. 
The feed-veffels are oblong, and the feeds are 
numerous, fmall, and brown. 
It is a native of the Greek iflands, and of 
many other warm countries, and flowers: in. 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lhla/pi umbellatum Creti-: 
cum flore albo odoro minus. 
Some prefer this to the larger kind in gardens, 
7. The Rofe of Jericho. 
Thlafpi fruticofum parvum floribus albo virentibus. 
The root is long, flender, and woody, and is 
hung with a few ftrageling fibres. 
The firft leaves are few, and they very quickly 
wither: they are oblong, fomewhat broad, and! 
of a faint green, obtufe at the ends, and in- 
dented bluntly and flightly at the edges. 
The ftalks are numerous, thick, woody, and 
divided into many branches: they fpread them- 
felves circularly on the ground, and rife only a 
little from it at the points of the branches : they 
are two or three inches in length ; fo that when 
they lie expanded, the plant forms a circular 
tuft of about half a foot. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on thefe, and thofe 
toward the lower part of the ftalk are like the 
firft from the root, broad, oblong, and indented 
at the edges. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a greenith white - 
they ftand on fhort footftalks in the divifions of 
the branches. 8 
The feed-veffels are fmall and fhort : the feeds 
are fmall and brown. 
It is a native of the Eaft, and flowers in July. 
After this the leaves fall off, and the ftalks bend 
inwards till their tops meet ; and the whole plant 
then forms a round lump of the bignefs of a 
man’s fift, and of a woody fubftance. 
In this ftate it is brought over frequently as a 
curiofity, and, if laid into a bafon of warm wa- 
ter, it will expand the branches, and fpread itfelf 
out as it grew at firft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Thla/pi rofa Hierachuntea 
vulgo diffa, Others, Rofa Hierachontea. 
The reafon of its being called a ro/e, is its be- 
ing of the fize, and rudely refembling the form 
of one in its dry ftate, 
_8. The Candy Tuft Tree. 
Thlafpi Sempervirens floribus umbellatis. 
The root is thick and fpreading; and is fur- 
nifhed with many fibres. 
The ftem is hard, woody, and covered with a 
brown bark : it does not grow to any great height, 
but is divided into a number of branches. 
The leaves grow on thefe in an irregular cluf- 
tered manner, great part of the ftalk being bare, 
and large tufts growing in other places ; fometimes 
from the body of the branches, fometimes fup- 
ported on a kind of footftalks. Each leaf is 
oblong, narrow, and obtufe, not at all indented, 
and of a frefh green. 
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