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6. SmairperfoliaEc ThUfpi. 
Thlafpi perfolialum mimu. 
The root is a fmall, white fibre, divided at the 
end into a few minute threads. 
The fir ft leaves are oblong, broad, and rounded 
at the ends : they are not indented at the edges, 
and they have no foocftalks : they are of a deep 
dun<:y green, which they ufually retain to the 
laft ; and they remain with the plant in its growth ; 
not, as the others, fade when the ftalk rifps. This 
jTiny probably be owing to the fmallnefs of the 
plant, which draws too iittlc nourifhment to ex- 
haufl them. 
The ftalk is (lender, weak, of a pale colour, 
not at all branched, and about four inches high. 
There ufually are three or four leaves on it, 
rarely more : thefe are broad, fliorc, oval, and 
fharp-pointed i and they fo perfcftly furround the 
jftalk at the bafe, that it feems to run through 
them : they are of a paie green, and not fer- 
rated. 
The flowers are fmall and white : they ftand in 
little clufters at the tops of the ftalks, and fuon 
fade. 
The feed-vefiels are broad, fliort, and fia'ted ; 
the feeds are fmall and brown. 
Ic is found in barren ftony places in many pares 
of England, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls ii Ihlifpi perfoUatum minus ; a 
name copied by moil fince his time. Others, 
Thiafpi minus, and Thlafpi jmius Clufii. 
All the fpccies ol thipfpi agree in their quali- 
ties with the firfl: defcribed kind ; but that is 
fuppofed to pofiefs them in the moft powerful 
degree. The feeds are the part that contain 
their virtues in the greateit perfeflion, and they 
Ihould be ufed frelh. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
1. The greater perfoliate Thlafpi. 
Thlafpi perfoliati'.m majus. 
The root Is long, thick, and hung with many 
fibres. 
The firfl: leaves grow in a fmall duller, and 
are oblong, broad, and ferrated : they have very 
fhort foocftalks : their colour is a deep green, and 
they are fliarp-pointed. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, upright, 
rarely at all branched, and ten inches high. 
* The leaves on thefe are placed at diftances, and 
are of a heart-like fliape ; they have no tootftalks, 
and they are of a pale greyifli green : they are 
broad:^fl; at the bafe, where they indole the ftalk, 
but do not join behind it ; and they are fliarply 
ferrated on boch fides, as they decreafe in breadth, 
to the extremity, where they terminate in a 
point. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of theflalks, and 
are fmall and white. 
The feed-vefTirls are fmall, and divided at the 
end pretty deeply. 
The feeds arc fmall and brown. 
It is a native of the fouth of France, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Tklcifpi perfoUatum niqjus. 
'2. Heart-podded Thlafpi. 
Thlafpi fill cuUs coi'datis foiiis integris. 
The root is fmal!, oblong, and furniflied with 
a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are fmall, and quickly fade : 
they are oblong, and moderately broad : they rife 
from the root without any footftalks ; and they 
are of a pale green, undivided at the edges, and 
obtufe at the end. 
This ftalk lifcs in the midft, and is round and 
■firm, of a pale green, not at all branched, and 
-four or five inches high. 
The leaves on it are like thofe from the root, 
■oblong and broad, and undivided at the edges ; 
they adhere to the ftalk without any tootftaiks, 
and are obcufe at the ends. 
The flowers are few and fmall : they are whitt, 
and they are placed at the top of the ftalk ; but 
they quickly fall off ; the pods are heart-faftiioned, 
and have a point in the center of the divifion. 
The feeds are fmall and brown: 
Ic is a native of Spain, and flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it ThUifpi capfula cordata pere~ 
grimm. Others, Thlafpi cordatum. 
3. Garlic Thlafpi. 
Thlafpi foliis ohtufis dmtatis allium rcdokns. 
The root is long and thick, and is furniflied 
with a few ftraggling fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a large tuft, and are 
fupported on long, flender footftalks : they are 
ftiort and broad, of an oval figure, and of a pale 
green and they are rounded at the ends, and 
dentated at the edges. 
The fl:a!ks are numerous, round, whitifh, and 
irregular : they are not much branched, fre- 
quently not at all, and they are not perfedly up- 
right. 
The leaves on thefe are of the fame figure with 
thofe from the root, fliort, oval, obtufe at the 
end, dentated a little, or rather waved at the 
edges, and placed on footftalks toward the lower 
part, but without any at the upper. 
The flowers are larger than in mofl: of thefe 
kinds, and white ; they ftand in a fpike at the 
top of the ftalk. 
The feed-vefliils are of an oval figure, very 
little compreflTcd, dented at the end, and full of 
fmall brown feeds. 
Ic is common in the fouth of France, and 
flowers in Auguft. 
The whole plant has a ftrong fmell of garlic. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scorodo thlafpi miitus Aldro- 
vandi. Others, Thlafpi allium redolens. 
4. Little red-flowered Thlafpi. 
Thlafpi foliis carnofts florilus rubris. 
The root is long, thick, and furniflied with 
many fibres. 
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