rich very fmall yellow flowers,growing flatteringly at 
ictoppes with fome fmall leaves among them, which 
irnetnto very (lender and limber long P°**^“ v * y 
-nail yellowifli feede in them very (harpe and biting up- 
n the tongue: the roote groweth to be v «y 
omewhat wooddy, very ftrong and fierce bo * 10 
nd tafte,abiding under ground many yeares.but looting 
11 ftalkes and leaves above ground every yeare. 
8. Drabaflore csrnleo galeato. ^ 
Hooded Arabian Muftard with blew fiowers 
For feme likeneffe unto Drabx is this plant referred! 
hereunto,although in many things ™ch dittenng . unt0 the AfclepUs SwalloWort.ofanhotbutaromatKall 
■oots confift of many long white firings and ho r ^ 111 ' fometimes two.ftraight fmooth and ftraked,about 
md fpicy tafte, which ufually fendeth forth butoneftalke, floWcr ° llke thoft of Orchis or Dogs 
halfe a yard high, fpread into fome fe ^J , ” n f tbe foppes: the lower greene leaves are about two inches 
Cdge^but thole that gtowuphigher and but far** 
the ftalkes are narrower and more pointed. . « 
• . -/if L rt . lt iir»rHpr t 5 nf* the fields at as others have donein 
The firft Clujitu faith he found as plentifully about bo d n0£ wcn ioned where it grew, the third 
other places,and fo likewife the fourth and fift, the fo ond ^ f g ^ . the feaven th at Tubing nearc 
rhehver taW among the Sn*~» : the laft is natural! m certame places of 
Jarbene prance. ^ ^ 
They doe all flower in the moneths of f«» e and ^ ripeneth in the mcane time. 
It is called in Greeke *3 and feme “? ^atme ^dKera wrils'hare' oblbrvet that this 
yet found out, although Lobd in& Pena doe g e him, buc-thruft into the tcitas l laid before by fome 
herbe was never knowne to ‘Ptofiorides nor mentio ,[1 D io ( cor jA es mcchod.and wrote moftof the lame 
later writers,for neither Galen nor Ori afius who both followed who thc farae manner and 
things make any mention thereof at all, no mo e ither who wrote out of ‘Dufcoridcs the mod of 
order write of the fame herbes with Dtofcondes, n°np _ T the name of ‘Driophomn ;-betides it is twiie 
his plant,, yet Cerdas thinketh that Phny meaneth this pim . tnder then me mt P hfa f( , cmld , ooU e, 
fet downs in fome Greeke copies that are manufcr.pts, firft: i ’ it i s “the herbe fo named is 
and then at the end of the fame booke betweene aflum p ' j erne writers of herbes,and although Do- 
wcll knowne now a dayes.and accepted by that name a 1 ° ^ fo|Jnd hisetrour & avoided it .Seraph 
don (US miftook this and thought th cTh'ajf, rrrtra-to.be K£ ^ Dr; tba vu i gari , by a g Authors,,and Nnftur- 
calleth it Nafiurtium Ortetffge-.pnt firft is generally called^ ,,.i<T) r aba major capitulh donat,v.thc lecond is cal- 
tismsTiabilonicnm by Lobeftsauhimts calleth It ra a ssess c > . t he thi d is called Jby Bdsshfatu 
led by ClnfitssDMnor andby^** and fo by 
Dr.-iba tenmfolia vcluti fpicat* : the fourth is called by , r j • an( j TSauhww ‘Drab* alba fili - 
and Eruca Lraih by him alfo, by Cjufm VrsAa IhaOm, but 
Wfirv**. who thinketh itmay ^ flanta "he fift is Chsfiu his Vrabafecun- 
himfelfe thinketh it may agree with LoMh\s SwapittA JK Sinati and Thlafpi media Provmcialis plimta 
da which BsuJuum calleth Draba alba fsHyuofa , feventh is mentioned 
of Lob cl whom Lugdunenfis followcth & Banhtnw callet median alfo by the name of 'Arabia ejuorand ■ M 
by Cameransn ,both in his Epitome upon Manbiolu, & in which namc-he deceived it 
f.orikn latch find faith it may more fitly agree thereunto ^enuntothej. >V fe ws6 doe ulually 
'out of England, which maketh me much to fufpeft that this Draba lute* is the lamenetue x_ . w - 
