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againft Sleepinefs, Droufinels, and fuch as are trou- 
bled with the Lethargy. 
CHAP. CLXIV. 
§f CRESS Indian. 
I. np H E Names. It is called in Greek, 
JL tvJiKov : in Latin , Nafiurtium Indicum , Flos 
Sanguineus Minardi s ; and in Englijh , Indian Crefs , 
or 2W&Z0 Larks-heels , from the Form of the 
Flower. 
II. T/;<? Kinds. It is a fingular Plant of the kind, 
and by its Tafte declares it felf to be one or the 
kinds of CreJJes. Some do account it among the 
Clematides or Convolvuli , the Ckmbeters or Bind- 
weeds , but any of thefe it cannot be, becaule it has 
no Clafpers, nor does it wind it felf about any thing, 
but by reafon of the number of its Branches which 
run one within another, it may feem to climb . up a 
Pole, or the like, which yet it does but only dole, 
as having fomething whereon to reit or lean its 
Branches. But Parkinfon , from Lobel, -makes two 
kinds, viz. the Round Leaved , ( which is the Com- 
mon ) and the Cornered Leaved. 
III. The Defer ip tion. This fair and noble Plant 
has Roots which are finally and fpreading under 
Ground , which perijh with the firfi Frofis, and mufi 
be fown afrefh every Tear : from this Root arife ma- 
ny long trailing Branches , interlaced one within ano- 
ther very confufcdly , (yet it does not wind it fe/j 
with any Clafpers , about cither Pole , or any other 
Prop , but if you would have it lye clofe thereto , you 
mufi tye /V, or efe it will lye upon the Ground ) four 
or five feet in length at the leafi , for which Reafon 
it takes up a great deal of Ground. The Leaves are 
finooth , green , and as round as the Pennywort which 
grows on the Ground ', without any Cut or Incifure 
in any part , the foot Stalks of which fiand in the 
middle of each Leaf and grow forth at every Joint 
of the Stalky where they are a little reddifh , and 
knobbed or bunched out : the Flowers are of an ex- 
cellent Gold-yellow color , and grow all along the 
Stalks , almojl at every Joints with the Leaves , up- 
on pretty long foot Stalks , which are compofed of five 
Leaves apiece , not hollow or gaping , but funding 
open , each Leaf apart by it felf two of them , which 
are larger and longer than the other , fund above , 
and the other two , which are lejfer , fiand below, 
which are a little jagged or bearded on both fide s ; 
and t he fifth lowefi. In the midfi of each of the three 
lower Leaves , ( yet fometimes it is but in two of 
them) there is a little long Spot or Streak, of an ad- 
mirable Crimfon color , ( whence the Name Flos San- 
guineus : ) and the Flower has a long Heel or Spur 
behind it, hanging down , ( from which and the Color ^ 
came the Name of Yellow Larks-heels:) the whole 
I lower has a great Beauty , and Sweetnefs withal , ve- 
ry p leafing, which being placed in the middle of fome 
Carnations or Clove-gillihowers, ( which are both in 
flower at the fame time) make a noble Nofegay, both 
for Sight and. Smell. When the Flowers are pafi, 
come the Seed, which are rough or uneven, round, 
greenifh, yellow Heads, fometimes but one, and fome- 
times two or three funding together upon one Stalk, 
bare or naked of themf elves, without any Husk, con- 
taining a white pulpy Kernel. 
IV. The fecond, or Cornered Leaved kind, in its 
Root , Stalks,. Branches and Flowers differs little cr 
nothing from the former : the chief Difference is in 
the Leaves, for ns in the former they are round, and 
are fafined upon a long foot Stalk underneath, nearly 
in the Center or Middle of each Leaf, and Lunched 
out •, in this-, they are broad, and J'even, eight or 
nine cornered, of the fame Smcothnejs and Color, 
(harp pointed at their lops, and growing upon a long 
foot Stalk , which is joined to the Leaf at the lower 
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