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our common burnct, of a very cheering 

 and exhilarating nature, when cut young 

 and ufed in failets, as well as when it 

 is grown larg-cr for wine 5 it is call'd 

 pimpinella^ vel bipinnelUy fay our learn- 

 ed etymologifls, from the double order 

 or range of its leaves, which are fet 

 like a plume of feathers. There are but 

 two fpccies of it cultivated in gardens, 

 neither ot them of any great account 5 

 they may be both of them propagated 

 by the roots, and in the place alfo where 

 the feed falls they increafe greatly ; they 

 are both figur'd and defcrib'd by Gerard^ 

 ^.1045. by the names of pimpnella hor- 

 tenfisy garden burner j and by T^arkinJoUy 

 pimpineila vulgaris minors p, 582. the 

 other, pimpernel, or large burners, are 

 figur'd and defcrib'd by the fame herba- 

 xAsy pimpinella major vulgaris , Tarkin- 

 fony p. 582. and pimpinella fylvejlriSy 

 Gerard-, p. 1045. common great burnet. 

 The feed is pretty large, and a little o- 

 vular, with four fides, and is all over 

 engraven as it were in the fpaces between 

 the four fides. 



The laft plant in this clafs I have re- 

 ferved for the antient and fo much fam'd 

 eruca fativay or garden rocket. 



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