442 MUSTARD PLANT OF THE GOSPELS. 
tion, and when the bowels are slow, to promote regular 
evacuation. 
The plant is cultivated by gardeners or farmers, for the 
sake of the seed reduced to powder ; and is intended to be 
used in their own families, or for sale to others who use it. 
The seed, it is probable, was sown for the same purpose 
among the Jews as among us. As it might be a profitable 
concern, a Jew would be encouraged to sow it in his field 
or garden. Being a marketable commodity, he might cal- 
culate upon an adequate reward for his labour. 
The common mustard, it need hardly be noticed, belongs 
to the class Tetradynamia of the Linnean arrangement of 
plants, or those which have six stamens, two of which are 
shorter than the other four ; and to the order Siliquosa, in- 
cluding those plants the seeds of which are contained in 
pods. 
