354 TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 



mits : the petals are yellow, with an entire mar- 

 gin, and twice as long as the calyx, 



*** toliis pinnatis, 

 fophia 5. SISYiMBRIUM petalis calyce minoribus, fcliis de- 

 compolito pinnatis. Sp.pl. 920. (Ger. em. 106B. 

 /. I. Pet. herb. t. 46, /. 12. BlachwelL t, 440. 

 Oed. Ban. t. 528, opt.) 



Flix-Weed. Angl'is. 



In wafte places near towns and villages, not un- 

 common. O. VIII. 



The ftalk is a cubit high, ere6t, and greatly 

 branched : the leaves are a little hairy and foft, 

 doubly pinnated ; the pinnule linear : the petals 

 are yellow, very fmall, and not above half the 

 length of the calyx : the leaves of the calyx ftarid 

 open : xhzftamina are longer than the calyx: the 

 filiqua are ftrait, parallel to the ftalk, and grow 

 very quick. 



A drachm of the feeds of this plant was formerly 

 much ufed in dyfenteries, and to expell worms, 

 but is out of the prefent pradice. 



ERYSIMUM. Gen.pl 814. 



Siliqua columnaris, exa(5le tetraedra. CaL claufus. 



ERYSIMUM fihquis fcapo adprelTis, foliis funci- 

 cfficinaJe i. ^ ^^^.^^ ^^^ ^y^. ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^ ,^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^.^^ ^^^^ 



/• 3- t'?>'f' ^' ordinis mediiPet, herb. /. 46./. 3. 

 Blackweilt, 28) 



Hedge-muftard. AngUs, 



In 



