feldomebeareth more then one is about two foote high.fet with the like leaves but letter and leffe divided up to 
the toppe.and with longer ends more pointed, ofaftrong fentand bitter fharpe take, the flowers arc many fet 
together,fmall and yel ow, with longer fpikes more like to Muftard then Rocket, after which come longer and 
thicker cods about two inches long,(mall and round not clofing the flalke like the lalt, but fpreading lomewbat 
further oft", wherein is fmall yellow feede, nothing fo lharpc as the leaves: the roote is long and white, flronger 
and hotter then either leaves or feede and moll neare untoMuftard. 
5. Erjpmum angnfiifolium Ncapolitanum. Narrow leafed hedge Muftard of-Miy/er, 
The lower leaves of this hedge Muflard are long and narrow, fomewhat hairy but loft, of a pale greene co¬ 
loured in or come on the edges, and pointed very like unto the common hedge Muftard here h'rlf let downe, but 
thofe that grow up higher upon the flalke, which is leldome mote then one about a yard high and rough, are 
fmallerand with fewcrdivifions branched from the middle upwards, and lometiir.es from the very bettome, 
bearing the fmallefl yellow flowers ac the toppes of all the reft, after which come fmall long pods fet on all fidcs 
of the branches and Handing upright, thickc and blunt at the toppes with fmall 5 ellowilh leede in them not 
verylharpe. 
6. Enpmofimilii hirfutaplanta. An hairy hedge Muftard with uncut leaves. 
This hairy hedge Mullard-hke plant hath many leaves lying on the ground cluttering together,each whereof is 
rough,hairy,and whitifh, an inch andahalfelong, unevenly dented about the edges, and (orr.c a litttlemore 
deepely cut in, from whence rife up lometimes many ftalkes, andfometimes but one, rough,hairy andreddifh at 
the bottome,with fome few lefler leaves fet thereon compaffing them at the bottomes: the flowers ftand fpike 
fafhion at the toppes of the ftalkes, which are fometimes branched made of foure fmall white leaves, and after 
them rife ftraight long cods with lmall feede in them. 
The Place. 
The firft is very frequent in our Land by the wayes and hedge (ides and fometimes in the open felds.-ihe fecond 
is more rare to mcete with, yet is fometimes found but ftillinthebetter grounds which maktthit id large: rhe 
third is four d wild in It Ij as iJMatthiolus faith in the like places with the firft : the fourth and fifr are of Naples 
as Columns faith : the laftgroweehupon ftones and rubbifh.and upon old mudde walles at Tafpf Montpelier and 
other places. 
The Time. 
Thefe doe flower fometimes late and fometimes earlier,but mod ufually in lulj or thereabouts. 
The Names. 
The Greeke name is IfvVjgor Erjpmum tS ifstn'afoliorum mulciplicifePlione pc diElum a cjiiibufdamputattir ab 
x/ijsicai'/Mv quappretip!<m,nz'uheT o( which feemeth fo likely as i'i(dlns cjuodobfnam caliditatem attrahendi 
facilitateprsdunm efl : in Latine alfo Eryfimtsm and bio cjuodacrimoniafua irrait inguftum. This is the Erjpmttns 
QpDiofcoridesiuA not of Tbcophrafistsfor hee placech his £rjf,mum inter fruges among the forts of Corncs or 
Graynes 
