The BRITISH HERBAL. 
The fecd-veffcls are long, flcnder, and fquared : 
they (land in a khid of Ipikes along the upper 
part of the ftalk, when the plant has been ionie- 
time in flower. 
The feeds are numerous, fmall, oblong, and 
yellow, and are very bitter. 
It is frequent in the fen countries, as the Ifle ot 
Ely, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Myai^mm fiipa longa. 
Others, Camelina. 
The feeds of this plant are accounted excellent 
againft wormr, and are much ufed by the country- 
people but they are not known in the fltops. 
They are alfo given againfl: obfl:rua]ons of the 
vifcera, and in the rheumatilhi and jaundice, with 
fucccfs : they operate moderately by urine. This 
Biedicme defcrves to be more known. 
2. Broad leaved fmooth Eryfimum. 
Eryjmum lai:]oliuu glahrum. 
The root is long, white, flender, and fur- 
niflied wirh many fibres. 
The firft: leaves are numerous, large, and very 
deeply divided: they are placed on flender foot- 
ftalks, and are deeply cut, almofl: to the rib, into 
a number of fegments, in fomewhat like a pin- 
nated form. 
The ftalk is round, thick, upright, not much 
branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the root, 
being divided very deep at the fides into four or 
five pairs of fegments ; they are perfeitly fmooth, 
and of a yellowifti green. 
The flowers are fmall and yellow : they ftand 
in tufts at the tops of the flialks, and are but of 
ftiort continuance. 
The feed-veffcis are long and flender, and they 
Hand at a good diftance from the flialk : the feeds 
arc fmail brown. 
It is common in waflie places, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Eryfimum lalifoliim majus gta- 
hnm. Others, Eryfimum latifoUum Neafcliianim' 
This name comes from Parkinfon, and is ill 
adapted to fo common an Englifh plant, 
3. Flixweed. 
Eryfimum foliis temijfime dhifis fophia diSlum. 
The root is long, flender, and furniflied with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, and very beautifully 
formed : they are pinnared, and the pinnre or di- 
vifions are divjded, and fometimea fubdivided 
again j fo that the leaf if- compofed of innume- 
rable very fine and delicate parts. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, of a pale 
green, and a yard high. 
It is very much bianched, and thick fet in all 
pati'L with leaves. 
Thefe ftand irregularlv, and refemble thofe 
from the root : they are i ry finely divided, and 
of a deep, but not unplealing green. 
The flowers are fmail and yellow, and they 
ftand in little tufts at the tops of all the branches. 
The feed-vefiiils are very flender, long, and 
green ; the feeds are numerous, and extremely fmall- 
It is common in wafte places, and flowers, in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nafiurfium fyivejire tenuif. 
fime divifum. Others, Sophia chirurgorum. The 
common people, Flixweed^ a corrupt way or" 
fpeaking Fiuxwefd. 
This name has been given it for its virtues 
which ought tp make it more .regarded. 
The feeds are aftringent, and the juice rrior? 
fo : either pf thefe, or a decodtion of the plant, 
flop flvixes and haemorrhages in a very fafe and 
happy manrier, 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
DIVISION II. 
I. Arabian Muftard. 
Eryfimum draba lutea diSlum. 
The root is long, thick, white, and furnifhed 
with many fibres. 
The firil: leaves rife in a fmall tuft, and are 
fupported on long footftalks: they are oblong, 
and confiderably broad, indented at the edges, 
and fharp-pointed. 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, and not 
niuch branched : its ufual height is two feet, 
but it fometimes rifes to twice that, or more. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are like 
thofe from the root: they have fhort footftalks, 
and are oblong, ferrated, fharp-pointed, and of 
a dufky grfcn. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in a 
kind of fpik'irs, and they are of more duration 
than moft of the others : they are fucceeded by 
long and very flender pods, in which are longifli 
yellow feeds. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
C Bauhine calls it Br^.ha lulea filiqiiU firiSfif- 
Ji:ni.i. - 
The whole plant has a fiery tafte, bi,it the root 
moft of all. " ' 
It is an excellent medicine in rheumatic com-, 
plaints, and in obftrudions of the vifcera. 
2. Great-flowered Eryfimum. 
Eryfimum fiore aiireo mapw. 
The root is long, thick, and furniflied with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves arc numerous, Iong» large, 
and very beautifully divided : they fpread them- 
felves upon the ground in a circular manner, and 
they are finuated very deeply in the pinnated 
form ; each leaf is formed of five or fix pairs of 
thefe fegments, united by a rim of a leaf joining 
the rib ; and they are of an irregularly-triangu- 
lar figure. 
The ftalk is yprjght, firrn, round, not much 
branched, and two feet high. 
The leaves en it are long, narrow, and like 
thofe of the root, but with fewer divifions. 
The flowers arc la^ge, and of a fine yellow. 
1 he pods are long and flender, and the feeds 
fmall, numerous, and round- 
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