Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Lib. 2, 
272 
-j. 2 This fecond kinde hath a thicker and harder root than the precedent, hauing alfo fewer 
fibers- the leaues are bigger than thofe of the laft defcribed, fomewhat curled or finuated,yet leife, 
roti °T, and ofa lighter greenejin the middeft of thefe there rife vp one or two ftalkes or more, vfu- 
ally’fome two cubits higb,diuided into fome branches, which are adorned with leaues almoft in- 
girting them round at there fetting on. Thefloures are like thofe of the former, but fomewhat 
huger, and the colour is either white, of a pale yellow : after thefe fucceed many long cods filled 
with a feed fomewhat larger than the laft defcribed. t 
- Gold of plcafure is an herbe with many branches fet vpon a ftraight ftalke, round, and dnu- 
ded into fundry wings, in height two cubits. The leaues be long,broad,and fharpe pointed, fome- 
what fnipt or indented about the edges like thofe of Sow-thiftles. The flowers along the ftalkes 
are white; the feed contained in round little veflels is fatand oily. 
1 7 unit is. 
Towers Muftard. . 
4: 2 Turritis major. 
Great Tower Muftard. 
4 Treacle Wormefeedrifethvpwith tough and pliant branches, wlicreupou do grow many 
fiuall yellow' flowers ; after which come long flender cods like Flixe-weed,or Sophia, wherein is 
conteined fmall yellowifh feed, bitter as Wormefeed or Coliquintida. The leaues are fiuall and 
darke of colour, in ftiape like thole of thewilde ftocke Gillofloures, but not fo thicke,nor fat, The 
root is fmall and Angle. The Place. 
Towers Treacle groweth in the Weft part of England, vpon dunghils and fuch likeplaces. I 
haue likewife feen it in fundrie other places, as at Pyms by a village called Edmonton neere Lon- 
don, by the Citie ivals of Weft-chefter in come fields, and where flaxe did grow about Cam- 
bridge. 1 ; The fecond isaftrangerwithvs ; yet I amdeceiued if I haue not-leene it growing in 
bA.Parkinfens garden, t 
The other grow in the territoric of Leiden in Zeeland, and many places of the Low-countriesj 
and likewife wilde in fundrie places of England. 
7 he Time. 
Thefe herbes doe floure in May and Iune, and their feed is ripe in September, 
W The Names. 
$ 1 This h Turrit is a{ LobsliTurritaVulfratior ofClufius. 
1 This is Turrit a maiorptCliifiuspiYio thinkes it to b eBrajfica yirgata of Cerdtss, 
3 CVt.it i 
