Chap. 1 66. Unglijb Herbs . 
VII. The Times. They flower l'omewhat early 
in the Spring about April and May, at fartheft, and 
continue with the lower Leaves all the Winter. 
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VIII. The Qualities, Specification , "Preparations 
and Virtues are the fame with Garden Grefs in Chap. 
163. aforegoing, to which you are referred. 
CHAP. CLXVI. 
Of CRESS Meadorp , 
0 R , 
C U CK O W -FLOWER, Double . 
I . H E Names. This is called in Latin, Car- 
X damine flore plena , ( that it was known to 
the Greeks , I cannot learn) and in Englijh , Double 
Meadow Crefs , and Double Cuckow-flower. 
II. The Kinds. Taken as Garden Flowers, there 
are two of them, viz. 1. Car damine flore plena, be- 
ing the double kind of that Plant, which growing 
wild abroad, is called, Cardamine altera, and Si- 
fymbrium alter urn Dio/cor idis, alfo Flos Cuculi but 
this Name is more ufually given to the Wild fea- 
thered Campions, both fingle and double : in Englijh 
we call it Double-flavored Cuckow-flower, or Ladies 
Smocks. 2. Cardamine trijolia , Trefoil Aleadow 
Crefs, or Cuckow-flower this is not truly a double- 
flowred Plant, but rather a Plant very full of Flow- 
ers, which at firft fight makes it look as if it was 
double-flowred. Thefe two being the faireft of all 
the Meadow Creffes or Cuckow-flower s, and for their 
Beauty being brought into Gardens, we thought belt 
to place them both in one Chapter. 
Ill The Defcriptions. The firft double-flowred 
has a Root which creeps under Ground, fending forth 
many fmall white Fibres or Strings, and fhoots up in 
divers places : from this Root fpring forth feveral 
winged Leaves , weak and tender , lying on the 
Ground, very like to the fingle Meadow kind-, from 
among which rifes up a round green Stalk, fet here 
and there with the like Leaves that grow below, the 
top whereof has a few Branches, on which ft and feve- 
ral flowers, everyone of them upon a fmall foot 
Stalk, confifting of many fmall whit ijh round Leaves, 
a little dajkt over with a blew Blujh , fet round toge- 
ther , which make a double flower. 
IV. The feconi, or Trefoil Cuckow-flower, has 
~u R °u c ? m P°f ei “If a of feveral white fibres , from 
the Heads whereof run Jorth fmall Strings, of a dark 
purple color , by which it encreafes. from this Root 
fpring forth feveral dark, round, green Leaves, a 
little uneven about the edges, and always three fet 
together on a blackijh fmall foot Stalk, among which 
nje up fmall, round, blackijh Stalks, fix , feven or 
eight inches high, with three fmall Leaves at the 
Joints where they branch forth : at the tops whereof 
grow many flowers , confifting of four Leaves apiece, 
of a wbttijb, or very pale blujh color.. The flowers 
PfFi J md ll, thick and long Pods come forth in 
which is contained fmall round Seed. 
V* The Places. The firft generally grows with 
us in Gardens , but is alfb found Wild in divers parts 
'of England, as near Mitcham, about eight Miles 
from London, alio in Lancafhire , in feveral places • 
the other was brought to us at firft from beyond Sea' 
and is here only nurft up in Gardens. 
VI. The Times. They flower ufually in the end 
of April or May ■ but the latter of them commonly 
flowtrs before the former. 
t _T^* The Qualities, Specification, Preparations 
Virtues and. Ufes, are the fame with thofe of Gat den 
krefs m Chap. 16^. or with thofe of Water Crejfes 
to which you are referred. 
CHAP. CLXVII. 
Of CRESS Wild. 
Names. It is called in Greek, 
„ niJtnt K, iyw v ■' ill Latin, Nafturtium agre/ie 
Nafturtium Sy/veflfe : in Englijh, Wild Crefs. 
II. The Kinds. There are three which go under 
the Name of Wild Crefs, viz. 1. Nafturtium Sy/ve- 
>lT e Pfy r ' its 5 ° lu *, Narrow-leav’d White Creffes. 2. 
Nafturtium agrefte Carolinianum , The Carolinian 
Wild Crefs. 3 . Nafturtium Petraum, The Stone 
or Rock Crefs. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft of thefe has a 
woody Root, which perijhes after Seed time , from 
whence fpring forth many fmall , round and hard 
Stalks, with feveral fmall, round and narrow Leaves 
growing thereon without Order , branched from the 
middle upwards into many parts , at the lops of which 
come forth a great number of fmall white flowers 
(but fome have been found with yellow flowers, th o' 
not often) one ftandmg above another. Spike JaJhion, 
after which appear Husks, containing fmall Seed. 
IV. The feconi , or Carolinian Wild Crefs, has a 
long and fender Root , with many fibres proceeding 
from it, which alfo perifhes every Tear ; from which 
Root grows up a round, green and hairy Stalk, about 
afoot high or more, and if it grows in rich or fen it 
Ground , fometimes about a foot and half high ; fome- 
times but one Stalk grows up , and fometimes more ; 
which Stalk or Stalks fpread into branches from the 
very Ground , at every Joint whereof ftani long 
winged Leaves, very much divided, like unto the 
Common 
