fart thereof. The blowers are Lark-f purred , like 
the other , and in the whole , differs nothing from it 
in its Manner dnd Form of growing. Parkinfon feems 
to fay it w.u taken from the Life , which tho ’ it has 
not been feen here with us in England fince , yet that 
hinders not (fays he ) the Verity of the thing. When 
I was in the Weft Indies, in ?ny Travels up and 
dozen , / flaw it feveral times. 
V. The Places. This goodly and beautiful Plant 
Was hrft found in the Weji Indies , and brought 
thence into Spain by Monardus from whence it was 
afterwards conveyed into France , Flanders and Eng- 
land. It grows now familiarly in moft of our 
Gardens, where it flourifhes, and is become as it 
were a natural Inhabitant. It need not be planted 
or fown in Beds of Horfe-dung, or the like, for the 
natural Ground will be futficient, fo that it is but a 
little defended from thofe Frofts in the Spring of the 
Year, which are apt to nip it whilft but tender, or 
newly fprung up. 
VI. The 'Times. It miy be fown in March or 
April -, the which, when it is fprung up, and ha- 
ving gotten three Leaves, muft be taken up, and 
carefully replanted abroad, in the hotteft place of 
the Garden , and in the fineft and fatteft Mould. 
It flowers fometimes in June , but ufually in July, 
if it is well defended, and in good Ground •, and 
fo continues flowering till the cold Frofts and Wea- 
ther in the latter end of OSlober, does check it, and 
put a ftop to its Luxuriant Nature * the Seed grow- 
ing continually ripe in the mean Seafon, which af- 
ter it is ripe, loon falls down on the Ground, whence 
for the moft part the heft is gathered. 
VII. The Qualities, Specification , Preparations 
and Virtues, are exa&ly the fame with thole of Gar- 
den Crcffes in the former Chapter, to which I refer 
you } fo that no more need be fpoken of them here, 
except that the fame Preparations of this Plant, as 
they are ftronger, lo they are more Efficacious. 
CHAP. CLXV. 
Of CRESS Meador p, 
0 R , 
CUCKO W--FLOWER, Single . 
I. ’T' HE Names. It is called in Greek, Ka ? /a,(Tor 
■- xs/pumv •• in Latin, Flos Cue uli, Nafiurtium 
Pratenfe, Sifymbrium alterum Diofcoridis, and Car- 
damine : and in Englifh, Meadow Crefs , or Cuckow- 
fiower : in fome Countries it is called, as Gerard 
lays, Ladies Smocks. 
II. The Kinds. They are either Single or Dou- 
ble : the Single we fhall treat of in this Chapter, 
the Double in the next following. Of the Single , lb 
many as grow with us in England, there are three 
Varieties, viz. i. Nafiurtium pratenfe majus Tragi 
Broad-leaved Crels, or Cuckow-flower. 2 . Carda- 
mine altera minor, Sifymbriutn Cardamine Lacunas 
& Lugdunenfis, Sifymbrium aquaticum alterum Mat- 
thioli C? Tabernmontani, Hiberis Fuchfii, Iberis Tha- 
hi, Cardamine altera Lobelii & Clufii, Agriocarda- 
mum, five Cardamantica Nafiurtii foliis, Nafiurti- 
um pratenfe magno flore Bauhini, Nafiurtium aqua- 
ticum Jimplici flore Be fieri. The Small Cuckow- 
flower. 3 . Cardamine altera parvo flore. The Small 
flowred Cuckow-flower. 
Cjreat ^CucKon/fwiver. 
III. The Defcriptions. The Jirji hat a Root com- 
pofei of many white Headt or f ibres , from which 
jhoot forth feveral long Stalks of winged Leaves , 
that it, many together , fomewhat broad and round, 
tender, and dark green Leaves fet one againft ano- 
ther upon a middle Rib , the grealeji being at the 
ends ; among thefe winged Leaves rife up divers 
tender, weak, round, green Stalks, fomewhat ftra- 
ked ; on which grow much fmaller and longer Leaves 
very like the fmalleft divided Leaves of Garden Crefs’ 
at the tops whereof ftand feveral flowers made of 
four Leaves apiece, fomewhat large, and almoft like 
to Stock-gillifiowers, but rounder, and not fu/l out 
fo long, whitijh in Color, or a little dajht over with 
hlujh, and many times but at the edges only, each of 
them growing in a green Husk, which being pafs'd 
away, fmall Pouches grow forth, containing reddifh 
Seed, fome thing Jharp and biting in Tajle, as is 
the Herb alfo it felf, coming near to the Tafie of 
CrelTes. 
IV. The Small Cuckow-flower with great Flow- 
ers, is in its Roots, Leaves, Stalks, flowers, form 
and Manner of Growing, like to the former but now 
defer ibed, excepting that it is fmaller in every part , 
not bujhing out with fo many Leaves or Stalks ; and 
that the Pods of Seed are fomething longer than thofe 
of that aforegoing. 
V. The Small Cuckow-flower with the fmall 
Flower, is almoft in all RefpeSs like to the Small 
Cuckow-flower beforegoing ; fave, that the Leaves 
of this are fmaller and longer, and yet round fome- 
times alfo, growing in the fame manner as the former 
does : the flowers are alfo like them, but fmaller, 
and the Pods of Seed are fomewhat longer . 
VI. The Places. They are all found in feveral 
g irts of England , in moift Meadows, and near unto 
rook Tides, and lmall Rills of Water, paffing thro’ 
low Grounds. They have been found in the Caftle 
Ditch at Clare in EJJet r. 
VII. 77 it 
