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The Theater of Thints. Chap. 20. 853 
t bein° (lied there doth fpring up divers plants before winter,and fo abide to flower and feede the next Sommer. 
2. Turrit is major. The greater Towers-Muftard. 
I phis greater fort fpreadeth many leaves upon the ground fomewhat greater & longer,and not fo rough or hairy 
« the former, (omewhat crumpled and waved about the edges, and ofa paler orwhiter grecne colour, almoft of 
e colour of the field Coleworts ( which onely thing in my opinion caul'ed Batthimts and others to referre thefe 
u arts unto the wilde Coleworts) the ftalkes rife higher and more branched,the leaves on them compaffing them at 
0 icbottomes, much more than the former, bearing fmall whitilh yellow flowers at the toppes,and long (lender 
ads like unto the other after them,but fomewhat longer more crooked,and not growing up fo Hraight about the 
alltes, but more loofely or fparfedly, containing within them fomewhat larger feede and not altogether fo fierce 
ind fliarpe: the roote is white and thicke with fibres growing about it, which perifheth and is raffed againe 
1 the fame manner. 
3. Tttrritis eMlpina. Mountaine Towers-Muftard. 
This fmall mountaine T owers Muftard groweth up with a fmall frnooth round flalke little above a fpanne high, 
t aving divers fmall leaves at the foote thereof (lightly waved about the edges, and of a palegreer.e colour, lon¬ 
er alio than thofc that grow upon the ftalke which are not many, and they fmaller and fliorter and without foote 
i) Ulkes;at the toppes whereof hand many fmall white flowers fo duflering that they forme a fhort fpike.every one 
j landing on a long foote ftalke: the coddes have not beene well oblerved : the roote is fmall and white. 
The Place. 
II The firft delighteth to grow more on the open Sunnie hills, and the fecond more in the woodes and fhadowye 
3 places, and both in Auliria plentifully as Clst/itts faith where the laft was found alfo. 
The Time. 
~\ Thefe flower early for the moft part fometime in Aprill but ufudll in My, ar.d the feede is ripe tn hine. 
The Names. 
|- Thefe herbes have not beene knowne to any of the ancient Hertariftes either Grecke or Latines, neither yet to 
I many ofourmoderne Writers, for I finde hone of them to make mention thereof by the name of Turritis or 7 nr. 
rita, blit Label in his Dutch HerbalI,C/wjftu, Tabermontanus gwcidt Gerard from him whofe figures were uled for his 
Herbal!, and Bauhmus laft of all, who yet, as I faid in the beginning of the Chapter referreth them rather to the 
kindes of Brafficafylvejlris wilde Colewotres. The firft is c lied by CluftM Turrit a vulgatior, arid 'Turn: is by 
Label , Tabermontanws calleth it alfo Vaccar,a,and Beushium Trafftca fylveflris folijs integra &hiffndis : the fecond is 
called Turrit a major by Clnfus, but Thalius BraJJica fylveflris precera, and Ttauhinus following Thalius rather than 
ClttJtM calleth it Brajpcafyhejlris ramofa tot s perse glabra : Bauhihus calleth the laft BrajficafylvefirU Alpina, al¬ 
though as he faith it was lent him by a skilfull Herbarift by the name of Turritit Alpina. 
The Vert ties. 
The fierce fliarpeneife of thefe herbes, and efpecially the feedes doe plainely declare them to bee cottgeneres to 
the Mullards.Crefl'es.TVafit/^i.and the like, and no doubt will workc the fame effefts, although I have no author 
from whom I might declare any fpeciall properties in them, and therefore I leave them to every ones pradlife to 
experiment their vermes. 
Chap. XX. 
Iberis Cardamatstica, Sciatica Creffes. 
Cistica Creffes are of two forts, of both which Matthiolits entreateth but in feverail places, the one ini 
the end of the firft boolte under the title of Iberis, the other under Lcpidittm in the fecond booke. 
I. Iberis NaTturtzy folio. Sciatica Creffes. 
ayLo.A-j, Thi > Iberis rile tit up with a round ftalke about two foote high fpread into divers branches, whofe 
lower leaves are fomewhat larger than the upper, yet all of them cut or tome on the edges, fomewhat 
like unto Garden Creffes but fmaller: the flowers arc fmall and white growing at the toppes of the branches, 
where afterwards grow huskes like Unto Creffes, with (inaller brownifh feede therein than in the other, very 
ftrongand fharpe in taftc more than the Creffes: the roote is long,, white and wooddy. 
a. Iberis latiorefolio , Sciatica Creffes with larger leaves. 
This other hath the lower leaves whole, fomewh it long and broad iioc rent or tome at all, but onely fomewhat 
deepely dented about the edges towards the ends very ike unto thofc of Thlasfi CretUum fet forth here before 
among the Tislajfies,but thole that grow up higher are lefler: the flowers and leede are like the former, and fo is 
the roote likcwile, and both roote and feede as fliarpe as it. 
The Place. 
Thefe grow by the wayes tides in untilled places, and by the (ides of old walks, Arc. 
The Time. 
They flower in the end of lube, and their feede is ripe in Inly. 
The Names. 
Tt is called in Greeke by , Diofcorides\' c, f ', s Iberis fiveCardamaxtica quod Cat dasno, id eft, Nafluri 
tie [milts efi ( and tyenr yJsJu/sav NafiurtUtmfylvcflre ) if the text be DtofcoriJ.es his otvne, which is plainely con¬ 
vinced not tofce by good reafons, becaufe by the teftimonie of Galers Iberis and Lepidium arc all one ( for in his 
tenth Booke De camp, medicam fecundum locos, from the authority of Hygienus Lipparciis, hee faith thus : 
Si coxexdicum dalorcs levare eft animus, herbam Iberiden) epaam aiiejul Lepidium vocanr, astt Nafturtium 
jylvelire colligito, <fc. and Diofcoriies hath a Chapter in his fecond Booke entituled for Lepidium , fo 
that he woukfnot fpeakc of one herbe in two places, befides this Iberis is thruft into theend of his firft Booke, 
which doth not inqualitie fort with the reft of the herbes there (etdovvne before. Galen alfo in his booke 
De fsmplkittm Corfu, doth never intreate of them feverally as of two herbes, but (fill as of one. Paulas 
vLeiHita likewiffi faith that Lepidium was called Iberis,' ' hot in the fourth degree and neare unto 
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