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the laft than firft. The bigger roots fd 

 much defired, fhould be fuch as, being 

 tranfplanted, may be eat fhort and quick, 

 without ftringinefs, and not too biting, 

 and were formerly (as indeed they are 

 now) eaten with fait only, as carrying 

 their pepper with them. They were ce- 

 lebrated by Tlinjy and other the anti- 

 cnts, above all roots whatfoever, info- 

 much that, as thofe authors affirm, there 

 was in the Tielphic temple a radifh made 

 of folid gold, to which they paid great 

 veneration > and Mofchion, one of the 

 mofl: celebrated phyficians amongft the 

 GreekSy is faid to have wrote a whole 

 volume in its praifes. 



Etymologifts tell us, it is call'd ra- Derhati- 

 phanuSy from * Vu(pctviiy a perfpicuous or 

 clear root 5 but others, from fevcral / 

 words which fignified its quicknefs in 

 fpringing, after it is fowed ; and fo the 

 learned Stephens and Brown:, in their 

 Oxford catalogue of plants, remark. 



Our Herbals take notice of three or 

 four fpecies of this root, njiz»-^ the r^- 

 phanus fativus vulgarisy or common 

 garden radifh j raphanus piriformis five 



* fe'.ipayU, qurXi radix perfpicua. Dh'fcor. lib. lo. 



radice 



