Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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vpon the ground, with long leaircs like vnto common Rocket, or-rather Groundfivell, hailing fmall 
and vvhitilh blew flottres •, in vvhofe place commeth fmall cods, wherein is contained feed like- that 
of Barley. 
$ 6 Beftdes thefe there is anotherplant, whole figure which here I gitie was by our Author 
formerly fet forth in the precedent chapter, vnder the title of Sinapifylueftre ^ together with a large 
kinde thereof, vnder the name of Siriapi fativum alter urn. Now I will onely defc'ribe the later 
which I haue fometimes found in wet places : The root is woody : the ftalke fome foot long , ere- 
fted, and hauing many branches, lying on the ground: the leafe is much dittided, and that after 
the manner ofthewilde Rocket: the floures are of a bright yellow, and ate fitcireeded by lhorc 
crooked cods, wherein is contained a ycllowith feed. $ 
f 3 Eruca (ylueftris ongufttfolia. 
Narrow leaued wilde Rocket. 
t 4 Eruca ttafttertio cognat a tcmtifoUa 
Crelfy-Rocket." 
f The Place „ 
Romane Rocket is cherilhed in Gardens, 
Common or wilde Rocket groweth in moil gardens ofitfelfe : you may fee mold bricke and 
ltone walls about London and elfewhere couered with it. 
The narrow leaued Rocket groweth neere vnto water fides, in the chinkes and creuifes of ftone 
walls among the morter. I found it as ye go from Lambeth bridge to the vtllage of Lambeth vn- 
der a fmall bridge that you muftpafle ouer hard by the Thames ffde. & ' 
I found Sea Rocket growing vpon the fands neere vnto the fe a in the Ifle of Thanct, hard bv a 
houfe wherein Sir Henry Critfe did fometimes dwell, called Queakes houfe, Y ' 
If Tie Time. 
teJbe e r! bKmdeSOf R ° Cket flpure in the moneys of lime and Iuly, and the feed is ripe in Sep: 
ownefee^r 2 " Rocketdieth eiter y yeare,and recouerethit felfe againe by the falling of his 
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