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about the edges: The chives are very fhort, anct 
tipped with yellowifli fummits : When the flower is 
gone, the pointal becomes a flat green fruit, after- 
wards reddifli, hard, and almoft femicircular ; one 
line and a half long, two lines broad, indented on 
the edges, and divided into two capfules, each of 
which inclofes a flat redifh feed. 
Lepidium, Pepperwort. It has a crofs flower : 
The fruit is fhaped like a lancet’s point, is divi- 
ded into two cells, and has commonly oblong 
feeds. We have but one fpecies of this plant, viz. 
Lepidium latifolium^ R. 304, C. 97. Piper itis 
'feu Lepidium vulgar e^ P. 855. Raphanus fylvejiris 
Ojfficinarum^ Lepidium Mginet^e Lohelio^ G. 187. Dit- 
tander, Pepperwort. Near the hythe at Colchefter ; 
at Hey bridge^ near town-end ; hzVfjm.Bening~ 
hrough and Mitt on ^ in the North-riding, Torkjhire : 
The lower leaves grow on long pedicles, are fmooth, 
lliarp-pointed, ferrated, and four or five inches long : 
The ftalks are two or three feet high, fet alternately 
with lefTer and narrower leaves *, fometimes indented 
about the edges, and fometimes not : The flowers 
grow on the tops of the ftalks and branches, are 
white, and fucceeded by fmall flat feed-veflfels, with 
fliarp points. The whole plant has a hot and biting 
tafte like Pepper. 
Thlaspi. It has a crofs flower: The fruit is 
roundifh, fmooth, divided into two cells, con- 
taining fmooth feeds, and has commonly a foli- 
aceous border, flit on the upper- fide: The leaves 
are undivided, by which it differs from Creffes. 
The fpecies are : 
I. Lhlafpi vtdgatius^ R. 305. vulgatijfimum^ G. 
204. Mithridaticum feu vidgatijfimum^ Vaccari^e 
folio^ P. 835. arvenfe^ Vaccari^e incano folio majus^ 
C. 106. Mithridate Muftard, Baftard Creffes. -W- 
mong corn. It has a ftiff hairy branched ftalk, about 
a foot high, to which adhere leaves without pedicles, 
A a 2 broad 
