Chap. 600. 'Englijh Herbs 
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Rocket Water. 
p ° th f r foreign Countries. The third has been 
found about the Sea Coait of Italy, near Venice 
and other places of that Shore: and in Travelling 
1 have lometimes found ir upon the Sea Shores of 
,/tt ’ ln an(i near our En A l, Ih Plantations. 
V II. The Times. They all flower in June 
July, and Augufl, and their Seed is ripe within a 
Month alter the time ot Flowering. 
VIII. As to the Qualities, Specification, Prepare 
t/ons, and Virtues of thele Plants, Authors have 
laid nothing: but if we may prefume to judge of 
them by their Talte, which is very much like to 
that of Rocket, we may predicate the fame of them 
However they are faid to be Anodyn, and Dilcuf- 
and that by a kind of Diaphoretick faculty 
they will difperfe Swellings and Intonations! 
Angular a lays, that Our Engli/h Sea Rocket 
Purges exceedingly. Mi const lays, it wonderful- 
ly eafes the Cholick : and that the Difti/ledlVster 
drank 4 Ounces at a time , gives admirable eafe in 
the Stone and Gravel, whether in the Reins or 
Bladder. 
ROMAN- BF.ANS,y 2 v Kidney-Beans, Chap. $ 6 . 
l ee R °uncival-Peafe, Chap. 548 . 
ROSE-W ATER, fee Wacer-Lilly, Chap. 442, and 
ROSE-WINTER, fee Hollyhock. Chap. 369, ^ 
ROSE-RUBIE, fee Adonis-Flower, Chap. 2. 
to it : from which fpring. up divers Stalks , fome 
trailing on the Ground , others Standing more up- 
right , ( but being Nurft up in Gardens, it fome- 
thing varies its form and manner of growing in its 
Stalks and Leaves .*) ihefe Stalks are Scattering/)! 
Jet with fmall long Leaves , cut in or dented on the 
edges like to Groundfel or Rocket but longer and 
letfer, when growing in a Garden : ) at the tops of 
the Stalks grow the blowers of a pale purplijh color , 
of the fajhion of Radifli blowers compojed of four 
Leaves apiece : after which comes the Seed , in 
form like to a Wheat Corn, but greater : which 
Grains are fomelhing fpongy and not foil A , nor two 
joined together , ( when growing in a Garden) but 
every Seed fingle by it felf whereas that which 
grows by the Sea-fide, has always two growing to- 
gether. 
V. The third , or American and Italian Sea 
Rocket. Its Root creeps under Ground , with fome 
Strings or Fibres , and perijhes every Tear ajter it 
has born its Seed. From this Root fpring up fome 
long and narrow Leaves , lying next the Ground , 
very much and finely cut into fever a l parts , not 
very much unlike to a Deers Horns : the Stalk alfo is 
varioufly fpread out into many 'Branches , which are 
alfo fet with the like Leaves , but leffer , and lefs 
, divided f ill up to the tops of each Arm. The 
Flowers are of a purplijh color , confifting oj Jour 
Leaves apiece , and ft and one above another in ft mall 
husks each with two points , upon their fever al 
Stalks or Branches. When they are faded and gone , 
fmall pointed Heads in form like to a Spears point 
fucceed , in every one of which is contained a white 
Grain or Kernel. 
VI. The Places. The firft grows oftentimes 
near Ditches and Water Courfes, and fometimes 
alfo in dryer places. The fecond grows on our 
own Sea Coafts, in many places of Kent and 
Suffex efpecially, yet is not proper to our Clime 
only, but is alfo found on the Sea Coafts of feve- 
C H A P. DC. 
Of ROSE-WORT: 
0 R, 
R O S E - R O O T. 
I- HP f f Names. It is- called in Greek, P llJU 
J- in Latine, Rhodia Radix, and Rofe a 
Radix (becaule of its Rofe like Smell: j and in Enz- 
lijh, Rofe-Wort, and Rofe. Red. 
II. The Kinds. Some have thought it to be a 
Species of Orpine, but that is doubtful. There 
is according to Authors, two forts thereof, vie. i. 
Rhodia {errata-, Rhodia Radix foliis ferratis vet 
dentahs , Rofe-Wort or Rofe-Root with dented 
Leaves. 2. Rhodia non dentata , vel /errata- 
Rhodia Radix foliis non ferratis vel dentatis, Rofe- 
Wort, or Rofe-Root with fmooth edged Leaves, or 
Leaves not dented. 
The Dejcriptions. 
III. The firft, or Rofe-Wort, or Rofe-Root with 
dented Leaves, hs Root is thick and Tuberous or 
Knobby al the Head, and Branched out, rifing often- 
times above the Ground ; whereas it grouis fome- 
what reddijh, and is long downwards, with divers 
fibres annexed to it, which being a little broken or 
brm fed whilft it is frejh, fmells much like to a 
Damask Rofe, much more than when it is dry, tho ? 
then it retains a great deal of the Scent , and front 
thence it was that it took its Name. From the 
Heads 
