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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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whereupon do grow fmall tufts or fpokie rundles of white flowers. The feede followed), browne 
of colour, and bitter in tafte. The whole plant is of a loathfome fmelland fauour. 
4 Stone-Creffe eroweth flatvpon the ground, with leaues iagged and cut about the ed ges 
like the oakc leafe ,relembling well the leaues of fhepheardes purfe. I haue not feene the flow ers, 
and therefore they be not expreft in the figitre ; notwithftand ing it is reported vnto me, that t hey 
bee fmall and white of co!our,as are thofe of the garden Creffes. The feed is contained in fmall 
pouchesor feede velfels,like thofe of Treacle nuiftard or Thlafpi. 
f The Place. 
Crefles are fotvnein gardens, it skils not what foile it be ; for that they like any ground,efpeci- 
ally if it be well watered, f M. Bowles found the fourth growing in Shropfljire in the fields aoout 
Birch in the parifh of Elefmere,in the grounds belonging to M. Richard H trkrt i and that m 
great plenty, t 
The Time. 
It may be fowne atany time of the yeere,vnlelfe it be in Winter ; it groweth vp quickly, and 
bringeth forth betimes both ftalke and feede : it dieth euery yeere,and recouereth it felfe of the 
fallen or lhaken feed. 
x Nafturtium hortenfe. The Names. 
Garden Creffes. 
Creffes is called in Greeke .• in Latine 
Nafturtium-, inEnglifh Crefles:the Germaines call 
it&CKlfeMnd in French, Crcjfon : the ItaIians,iVa- 
fturtio, and ylgretto : offbme, towne Crefles, and 
garden Karffe. It is called Nafturtium, as Varro and 
Plinie thinke hnarribus tore] uendts, that is tofay,of 
writhing the nofthrils, which alfb by the loath- 
fome fmelland fharpneffe of the feede doth caufe 
fneefing. if. The firft is called Nafturtium hortenfe. 
Garden Creffes.2 Nj/lurtiurn hortenfe criftum, Gar- 
den Creffes with crifpe,or curled leaues. 3 Naftur - 
tium Hiftmtcurngx Latifoltum Spanifh Creffes ,or 
Broad-Ieaued Crefles, 4 This is Nafturtium petra- 
um of Talernamontanas (and not of Lobell , as our 
Author teimsd it.) Stone Creffes. d 
f The Temperature. 
Theherbe of garden Creffes is fharpe and bi- 
ting the tongue; and therefore it is very hot and 
drie, but lefle hot'whilefl it is yong and tender, by 
reafon of the waterie moifture mixed therewith,by 
which the fharpeneffe is fomewhatallaied. 
The feede is much more biting then the herbe, 
and is hot and drie almoft in the fourth degree. 
■I The Vert ues. 
Galen faith that the Crefles may be eaten with 
bread Velntiobfonium, and fo the Antient Spartanes 
vfually did ; and the low-Countrie men many times doe, who commonly vfeto feed of Creffes 
with bread and butter. It is eaten with other fallade hearbes,as Tarragon and Rocket : and for 
this caufe it is chiefely fowen. 
j. It is good againft the difeafewhich the Germaines call jaltOlbUtl) and §)C0?bUff : in Latine, 
Scorbutus : which we in England call the Scuruie,and Scurby,and vpon the feas the Skyrby : it is 
as good andaseffeftuallas the Scuruiegraffe, or water Cieffes. 
„ D tof grides faith, if the feed be damped and mixed with hony, it curcth the hardneffe of the 
milt : with Vineger and Barley meale parched it is a remedie againft the Sciatica, and taketh away 
hard five! lings and inflammations. It fcourethaway tetters, mixed with brine : it ripeneth felons, 
calledin Greeke, Jiai.it : it forcibly cutreth and raifethvpthicke and tough humors of thecheft, 
if it be mixed with things proper againft the ftuffingof the lungs. 
DiofcontJcs faith it is hurtfull to the ftomacke, and troubleth the belly. 
It 
