The B R I T I S 
Brajfsca fpuria cauh imgis folkfo hirfutkr. Others, 
fehfeHJfiUqiuij. : altera Jfecies. 
Branched Turritis. 
^urrilis rimofa foliis imis kifpidis. 
The root is fmal'-, flender, white, and fur- 
nifhi'd with i few fibres. 
The firft leaves are oblong, and confiderably 
brOiJ : they are of a greyilli green, and fome- 
what hairy, .ind rough tc ;he touch : thefe he 
fpread upon the ground in a circular manner. 
The ftalks are numerous, ficndcr, weak, and 
branched. 
H H E Pv B A L. 
The leaves on thefe ftand irregularly, a:-.J are 
but few ; they have no footftalks ■, they are of 
the fame greyifll green with thofe Irom the root, 
but they are not hairy. 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
The fced-veflels are long and Oenderi tlrey 
ufually are feen in a loofe fpike, under a little 
tuft of flowers, and are full of fmall, brown 
feeds. 
It is common on walls and dry banks, and 
flowers in April. 
Ray calls it Brafftca fpiiria mimma foliis hirfutis 
et glabris. OiXitia, Pilofella filiquofa thalii. The, 
common people. Codded moufear. 
DIVISION I. 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
Great, various-leaved Turritis. 
T uniiis major foliis 'variis. 
The root is long, thick, and white, and is 
furnifhed with many fibres. 
The fiift leaves are very long : they lie in 3 
circular tuft upon the ground, and fome of them 
are irregularly cut, and undulated at the edges, 
others altogether undivided : they are all rough 
tj the touch, and of a dufky green. 
The flalks are numerous, round, thick, up- 
right, very little branched, and two feet high. 
The leaves on thefe are numerous, irregularly 
placed, and altogether difl^:rcnt from thofe about 
the root : they arc of a form approaching to tri- 
angular, broad at the bafe, where they furround 
the ftalk, and fmaller all the way to the point ; 
and they are of a bluifh green colour, and of a 
fmoor^i and glofly furface. 
The flowers ftand in tufts at the tops of the 
ftalks, and are white, with a tinge of ycUowilh, 
fometimes more, fometimes lefs. 
The feed-veflTels are long and flender, and the 
feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is a native of Germany, and many other 
parts of Euroi>e, and [lowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Braffica fylueftris foliis circa 
radicem cbicoraceis. Others, Turritis major. 
The feeds of the turritis are accounted excel- 
lent in the rheumatifm ; and in fome places are a 
common family-medicine for that purpofe ; but 
they are not known in the Ihops. 
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XVI. 
eaves, which are coloured, and converge at their points, 
the feed-velTcl is very long, very flender, and the feeds are 
HEDGE MUSTARD. 
E R 2' S I M U M. 
THE flower is compofed of four petals, regularly difpofcd crofs-ways ; thefe are oblong, blunt 
at the end, end have narrow, fmall bottoms, which ftand erecT:, ^and are of the length of the 
cup : the cup is formed of four little, oblong 1 
and the whole falls with the flower 
fmall and round. . , . , , • . a u ■ 
LinniEus places this among the tetradymmia f.liquofa, four of the fix threads m the flower bemg 
longer than the other two, and the fecd-veflel being a regular pod. _ 
This author introduces into this genus fome plants properly belonging to the otners of the .ame 
clafs : but a trip of this kind is the more pardonable, becaufe there is no clafs m which the genera are 
fo very lightly diftinguilhed one from another. 
As there is no fmgle word to denote this genus in the Englifli language, it will be advifable to ufe 
the Latin name Ersfimm ; the more, as the plant commonly known under the name of /xdgc majlard 
in the fliops, prope'rly belongs, as Mr.Ray firft obferved, to another genus, 
defcribed and figured in its place. 
This has been already 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
1. Treacle Wormfeed. 
JEtyfiriium angujiifolium camelina diSlum, 
The root is long, white, woody, and furniflied 
with many fibres. 
The ftalks are round, firm, upright, and of a 
pale green, or purplifli : they are about two feet 
and Thalf high, and not much branched. 
The leaves are long and narrow : they (land 
in great number upon the ftalks, and in an irre- 
gular manner. They have no footftalks : they are 
narrow at the bafe, and broadeft about the middle : 
their colour is a pale green, and they have a bit- 
ter tafte, as has alfo the pith within the ftalk. 
The flowers grow in fmall tufts at the tops of 
the ftalks, and they are fmall and ydiow. 
The 
