Of the Hiftory of Plants: 
Lib. 2: 
24.6 
C H A P. I O. Of % 0 ckgtl 
The Kindes. 
T Here be fundry kindes of Rocket , fome tame, or of the garden; fomc wilde, or of the field* 
fome of the water, and of the fea. 
■f 1 Eracn fati/ia. 
Garden Rocket. 
The Defcription, 
1 Arden Rocket, or Rocket gentle, hathleaueslikethofeofTurneps,butnotneerefo 
V 1 great nor rough. Theftalks rife vp ofa cubit, & fomtimes twocubits high, weakand 
brittle ; at the top whereof grow the floures of a whitifh colour, and fometimes yel- 
lowifh •, which being paft, there do fucceed long cods, which containe the feed, not vnlike to rape 
feed, but fmaller. 
2 The common Rocket, which fome keepe in Gardens, and which is vfually called the wilde 
Rocket, is leifer than the Romane Rocket, or Rocket-gentle, the leaues and ftalkes narrower , and 
more iagged. The floures be yellow, the cods alfo flenderer,the feed thereof is reddiih,and biteth 
the tongue. 
3 This kinde of Rocket hath long narrow leaues almoft fuch as thofe of Tarragon , but thic- 
ker and fatter, refembling rather the leaues otMyagrum, altogether vnlike any of the reft of the 
Rockets, failing that the branch, floure, and feed are like the garden Rocket. 
4 There is anotherkinde ofRocket, thought by that reuerend and excellent Herbarift Caro- 
lutClufius tobea kinde ofCreffes ; if not Creffes it felfe,yet confine germane at the leaft. Vnto 
whofe cenfurc Lobdius is indifferent, whether tocall it Rocketwith thinneand narrow leaues, or 
to call it Confine to the kindes of Creffes, hailing the tafte of the one, and the fhape of the 
other. The leaues are much diuided, and the floures yellow. 
5 There is is a wild kind of Sea-Rocket which hath long weake and tender branches trailing 
vpon 
