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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
The Names. 
Rocket is called in Greeke, '.»sV» • in Latine,£>w4 .• in high Dutch, KaucfeCtlfetaut t in French, 
Roquettc : in Low-Dutch, L'iabCttC X in Italian, Ruchetta . in Spani£h,0r«g4 5 in Englifh, Rocket, and 
Racket. The Poets do oft times name it Herbafalax : Erne a doth fignifie likewife a certaine canker 
worme, which is an enemie to pot-berbes,but efpecially to Colevvorts. 
$ The firft is called Eruca fatiua, or Hortenjis major : Great Garden Rocket. 
2 The fecond, Eruca fylucjlris : Wilde Rocket. 
3 This third is by Lobel called Eruca ffltiejlris angnfti folia : Narrow leaned wilde Rocket. 
4 Clufius fitly calls this, Naftartiumfylueflre : and he reprehendeth Lobel for altering the name 
into Eruca Nafurtio cognatatenuifolia ; CrelTy-Rocket. 
5 The fifth is Eruca marina, (thought by Lobel and others to be cakile Serapionii,) Sea Rocket. 
6 Eruca aqitatica : W ater Rocket. 
+ 5 Erucamarina, f 6 Eruca aquatica. 
Rocket is hot and dry in the third degree, therefore faith Galen it is not fit nor aecuftomed to be 
A Rocket is a good Pallet herbe, if it be eaten with Lettuce,Purflane,and fuch cold herbes ■ for be- 
ing fo eaten it is good and wholefome for the ftomacke, and caufeth that fuch cold herbesdonot 
ouer-coole the fame : otherwife, to be eaten alone, it caufeth head-ache, and heateth too much. 
B Thevfe ofRocket ftirreth vp bodily luft,efp. dally the feed. 
C It prouoketh vrine, and caufeth good digeftion. , 
D Plmy reporteth, That whofoeuer taketh the feed of Rocket before he be whipt, {hall be fohar- 
dened, that he fhall eafily endure the paines. 
E The root and feed ftamped, and mixed with Vinegerand the gall of an Oxe, taketh away frec- 
kles, lentiles, blacke and blew fpots, and all fuch deformities of the face. 
-}■ The figure that was in the third place, vndcr the title of £rticj(jl. is of the fame plant that in the Chapter of Tettitir is called rttjrta, where vota 
{hall findc it treated of at large. And that tri the fit!! place is ErjCvi^umfccmSm ofTeSmt. and I qtxcflion whither it bcnotofSirtapj fjliajheminta- 
The Temperature. 
eaten alone. 
The Venues. 
Chap. 
