The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I. Common Wild Rocket. 
Eruca fyhejlris vulgatior. 
The root is long and chick, and is furnilhed 
with many fibres. 
The firft leaves rife In a large tufr, and are 
long and beautifully divided ; they have fliorc 
footftalks : their colour is a pale green, and their 
divifion is fo deep, and into luch regular feg- 
ments, that they refemble pinnated leaves. 
The Halks are numerous, and of a pale green : 
they are divided into branches, and ufually iean ; 
efpecialiy toward the root. 
The ieaves ftand irregularly on them, and are 
like thoft: which grow immediately from the root, 
large, long, and deeply divided into fcgments, 
fo chat they appear pinnated. 
The flowers are yellow, and they ftand in a 
kind of fpikes at the tops of che ftalks. 
The pods are long and flcnder, and the feeds 
Imail and brown. 
The whole plant has a difagreeable fmell. 
It is frequent on old walls, and among rubblHi 
in many parts of England. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Eruca major lulea caule afpero. 
Others, Eruca fyhejlris, 
2. Little, wild Rocket. 
Eruca Jyhejiris minima. 
The root is long, flender, and furnilhed with 
many fibres. 
The firfl leaves rife in a tuft, and fprcad them- 
felves every way upon the ground ; they are long, 
narrow, and deeply divided at the edges into nu- 
merous fegments, fo that they refemble the pin- 
nated kind. 
The rtalks are numerous, round, upright, flen- 
der, very little branched, and eight inches high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and are 
long, narrow, and deeply divided, as the others, 
into che pinnated form, bu'c with fmaller feg- 
ments. 
The flowers are fmall and yellow : they ftand 
in little tufts at the cops of che ftalks, and are^ 
fucceeded by long, flender pods. 
The feeds are fmal! and brown. 
Ic is found in our northern counties, as alfo in 
the Ifle of Man. It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Eruca fyhejlris vnnor lutea 
biirj^ pajloris folio. Ray, Eruca monsnfis laciniata 
iiitsa. 
3. Water-Rocket. j 
Eruca aquatica. 
The root is long, flender, and furniflied with 
numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves are long and beautiful ; each 
is compofed of five or fix pair of pinnas or fmall 
leaves joined to a middle rib, with an odd one at 
the end : they are of a yellowifli green, and of a 
tender fuhftance. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and branched: 
they are a foot and a half high, but not very 
ered. 
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The leaves are placed irregularly on them, and 
are of the fame form with rhofc from the root, 
the feveral pinni; or fmaller leaves being jagged 
alfo in cwo or three places. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches, and are fmall and yc-llow ; the pods are 
, flender, and but moderately long. 
The feeds are Inull and brown. 
It is common by rivers, and about the edges 
of fhallow ponds. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls ic Eruca fylveflris minor luteo 
fiore. The generality of writers, from its place 
of growth, not common to the o'ther, Eruca 
aquatic a. 
4. Common Winter-Crefs. 
Eruca glabra fiore minore barbarea diSfa. 
The root is long and thick, and has a few 
fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a tuft, and have' a very 
pretty appearance they are long, large, and of 
a very deep, but glofly green : they are divided, 
fomcwhat in the pinnated manner, into two pairs 
of fegme-nts, and a large, broad part at the end. 
The ftalk is upright, firm, ftriated, and two 
feet high. 
The leaves ftand thick upon it, and arc like 
thofe from tlie root in fhape and colour. 
The flowers are fmall and yellow : they ftand 
in a thick cuft at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches, and are followed by longifli, flender 
pods. 
The feeds are numerous, fmall, and brown. 
It is common every where by hedges, efpe- 
cialiy where che ground is fomewhat damp. Ic 
flowers in April, 
C. Bauhine calls it F^riica lutea, feu barbarea. 
Others, N.ijlurlium hybermim. 
5. Early WIncer-Crefg. 
Barbara pr^ecox foliis freqaentius finuatis. 
The_ root is long, flender, white, and full of 
■ fibres. 
The firft leaves are fmafl, and ftand in a chick 
little tutt: they are compofed each, as itwere, of 
three pair of pinns, and a great rounded leaf ac 
the end ; but che divifions do not reach Co che 
rib, and they are only parts of an entire leaf thus 
divided into fegments. 
The ftalk is round, flender, yellow, and a foot 
high. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on it, and are 
few : chey are deeply divided into feveral pairs of 
fegments, widi an odd leaf at the end of each, 
and are of a yellowifli colour : their principal dif- 
ference from thofe of the common kind, is in the 
frequency of this divifion. 
The flowers are fmall and yellow, and the poda 
are fmall and flender. 
It is common on ditch-banks, and flowers in 
April, a week or fortnight before the common 
kind. 
It might feem only a variety of that ; but ex- 
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