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as before ; and fo continue the Drills 

 at a Foot Diftance, thro' the whole 

 Spot of Ground ; and if the Seafon 

 mould prove verydry,it will be proper 

 to water them until they have taken 

 Root in the Ground j after which 

 they will require no other Care, but 

 to keep the Weeds conftantly de- 

 ftroyed as they are produced, in the 

 manner before directed for the feed- 

 ling Plants 5 and when their jLeaves 

 decay, they will be fit for Ufe, as 

 before ; but after any of thefe Roots 

 have feeded, they are fticky, and 

 good for nothing ; fo that the Off-fets 

 Ihould never be taken from Plants 

 more than one Year old. 



SISYMBRIUM, Water-crefles. 



The Characlers are ; 

 It hath a Flower compofed of four 

 Leaves, which are placed in form of 

 a Crofs ; cut of wkofe Empalement 

 rifes the Point al^ which afterward 

 becomes a Fruit or Pod, which is di- 

 vided into two Cells, by an interme- 

 diate Partition ; to which the V al<ves 

 adhere on both Sides } and fumijhed 

 with Seeds that are roundifo : to thefe 

 Marks mujl be added, That the 

 whole Appearance of the Plants is pe- 

 culiar to the Species of this Genus. 

 The Species are ; 



1 . Si s ym brium aquaticum.Matth. 

 Common Water- creHes. 



2. Sisymbrium aquaticum, foliis 

 minor ibus, pr^cocius . RaiiSyn. Early- 

 fiowering Water-creffes, with fmall- 

 er Leaves. 



3. Sisymbrium aquaticum, ra- 

 phani folio, ftliqua bre r Jiori. Inf. R. 

 H. Water- radifh. 



4. Sisymbrium aquaticum, foliis 

 in profundas lacinias divifis, filiqua 

 bre<viori. Inf. R. H. Water-radifh 

 with deeply jagged Leaves. 



e . Sisymbrium paluf.re repens } 

 nafiurtii folio. Inf. R. II. Water - 

 rocket. 



6. Sisymbrium falufre minus. 



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ftliqua afpera. Inf. R. H. The lelT- 

 er Marfti-rocket, with a rough Pod. 



7. Sisymbrium eructe Jo Ho gla- 

 bro, fiore luteo. Inf. R. H. Common 

 Winter-crefs. 



8. Sisymbrium eruc& folio gla- 

 bro, fiore pleno. lnft. R. H. Winter- 

 crefs with a double Flower. 



9. Sisymbrium eruca? folio gla- 

 bra, minus & pr&cocius. Inf. R. H. 

 Small early-floweringWinter-rocket 



10. Sisymbrium erucee folio af- 

 pero, fiore luteo. Inf. R. H. Win- 

 ter-crefs with a rough Rocket-leaf, 

 and a yellow Flower. 



The firft and fecond Sorts of Wa- 

 ter -crelles grow promifcuoufly in 

 Handing Waters in mod Parts of 

 England, and are indifferently ga- 

 thered for Ufe. Thefe Plants have 

 of late Years been generally ufed as 

 Sallad-herbs in the Spring of the 

 Year, and are by many People pre- 

 ferred to all other Sorts of Sallads, 

 for the agreeable warm bitter Tafte ; 

 and being accounted an excellent 

 Remedy for the Scurvy, and to 

 cleanfe "the Blood, as alfo a good 

 Diuretic, they have generally ob- 

 tained with moft People. Thefe are 

 generally gathered in the Ditches, 

 and in other Handing Waters near 

 London, to fupply the Markets ; but 

 whoever hath a mind to cultivate 

 them, may eafily do it, by taking 

 fome of the Plants from the Places 

 of their natural Growth, early in the 

 Spring, being careful to preferve 

 their Roots as intire as poliible, and 

 plant them into Mud, and then let 

 the Water in upon them by degrees. 

 When they have taken Root, they 

 will foon ftourilh, and fpread over a 

 large Compafs of Water : they 

 mould not be cut the firft Seafon, 

 but fuftered to run to Seed, which 

 will fall into the Water, and furnifh 

 a fufHcicnp Supply of Plants after- 

 ward. 



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