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Show ae Cant The Theater ofPlants, T Rise 7. Cuap, 2. 3. Ernca maxima Ameriyana, Great Rocket of America, Eruca (ative atha, Garden Rocket with white fede, GAL LD A ET ACRES. T wae ocanh HOT AND SHARPE BETING PLANTS. CLASSIS SEPTIMA; alll i \ \ Ai Ni ISS THE SEVENTH TRIBE. CHAP. L. Eruca, Rocket. Rom thé cooling'herbes I am now come to thofe that are hot, fharpe, and biting upon the tongue,efpecially {uch as are not ambelliferous or more properly belong to another Claffis. Thereare divers forts ofRocket,foe growing in gardens whereof I have fet forth one in my former booke, which is the molt common with us, and called by Camserarius | in horto Eruca tertia Anglica, as | take it:) fome wilde growing in divers differing pla~ ces, others that grow neare the fea fide : to fpeake of them feverally in divers Chapters 1. Erucafativa alba, White or Romane garden Rocket with white feede. The Romane Rocketisa {maller plant than our garden kinde, having fomewhat valgaris majore there is no other that I know & album; and Lobel Sinap [ativam (emine albo duplo quam Thlalpi yellowflowers, and is the belt way, and not to cloy one Chapter with too manyforts. rounder, and round at theend, broadleaves cut inon the edges, but not { muchnorfo deepe, each part being and leffe jagged, and beareth lefler, thereon; fomeleaves hath ftalke the : intafte orfharpe alfo hot fo nothing leaves, after which come fhort white flowers at the toppes, madeof foure fomewhat long and round pointed Altera femine ni- K\ Rockelen: the Dutch Rukette : and wein Englife Gar= and) Aruga :the French Roqwette : the Germans Raukens and feede. The firft is called by Tragus Erucafive Mutltrad white and gentle, Rocket den Rocker, Romane Rocket, o long blacke feedes which cannot whitith round feede: the pods fomewhat long and round witha {mall peece at theend, wherein is contained like in leaves unto the former, roote is fmall & perifheth prefently after the {cede isripe. We have an other very with the like leaves on them,andlarge whofe ftalke rifeth three or foure footehigh, branched into many parts in : the roote each leafe haying flender long pods with {mall blackith browne feedethereRocket. 2. -Erucalatfolia, Great Garden {maller at the ends than our ordinarie and This large Rocket hath broader andlarger divifions at the leaves, flowers hereofare more yellow andengarden Rocket, and each part more unevenly dented aboutthe edges, thelonger pods. fmaller and clining to a gold colour,and the feede {maller and darkerin : middle, of grefcente. whitith fowersat the toppes of fonre leaves apeece, alfo round pointed, with a blackith linein the perifhing in like manner. maxima Americana, Great Rocketof America. z. Eruca ftalkes branching forth on all This fruitfall herberifeth upto amans height, with anumber of rough hairy fomewhatlike unto thole of edges, fides, and fet with divers long and pointedleaves unevenly dented about the fomewhat fweete at the firft bar Lyfimachia Loofe ftrife, but having a {mall downy hairineffe upon them tafting of the ftalkes and branches, confifting of foure fharpe afterwards , the lowers are many that {tand at the ends {cede thatjare {weetifh, and thereyellow leaves apeece, which turne into flender long pods, containing {mall thereunt Rucula marina major,by Cordus in hiftoria Erucula major,yet he giveth agreeto this, and quoteth Tragus to agree with his, which hath yellowith hath exprefled this fort, for AZatthiolus and others have fet forth a garden kinde that: beareth Anglica we doe.ufuallycall this r= {mall browne feedcin {lender long pods, which Camerarius calleth Eraca called by Baubhinus Eruca latie ca flore & femine albo, to put a difterence betweene it and the other «. the fecondis' by (ornutus amonghis Carada plants. Ma folia, and mentioned byno other: the laftis fet forth Uertues, The maketh thar thing nd any This Rocket gentle fo called from the Italians who by that title ofGentle, underfta more pleafant and gentle in tafte, ont quicke and ready tojeft,to play,or to Venery as this herbe doth,ot that iris Purflaine, or fomeother cold herbesto temthan the wilde kinde ; it isfeldome eaten alone but among Lettice, h head-ach if it be taken alone: it isin a manner each others cold and heatesforas it is faid by Galen it procuret per the appetite and to pleafe the palate, or to encreafe wholly {pent asa fawfe or condimentto meate, to quicken effetsin thefe Verfes, the fperme and Venerous effects, for which purpofes Martiall Ceweth And Columella thus, And Ovid Tamque Erica falaxfeecundo provenit borto. Nec minus Erucasjubeo vitare falaces, d upon, for thatthe wilde Rockets, as yar fhall But as for any Phyficall qualitie Iknow not any it is employe ofthe one theother may be taken, bur as itis want the in except purpofes, fach uedforall are by, heare byand more milde and gentle in talte, fo it is alfo in operation. The Place, ; oe ie ae enh Et Venerem revocans Eruca morantem, fore I have rather placed ithere for the mildneffe than with the wilde forts. countries,'their naturall place beBoth thee former kindes of Rockets arenurfed up in gardensin all places and fea fide in fome country: the other of ing not well knowne, yet itis thought that the firlt is originally fromlattthefrom that part of e4merica which the that fort cametous from Boelby the name of Eruca Aragonica: the French poffeffe called Canada. The Time. ; They doe flower about Ine and In/y, and their feedisripein Axguft. The Names. and Ernca in Latine, quod veliicande aguas Itis called in Greeke %uZ~p0» obfuavitatem in condiendis obfonys, Rucola gentile : the Spaniards: ones guafi erodat: the Arabians cail it ergir and Ergir = the Tealians Ruchetta and an feede ; of Lugdunenfis Sinaps hortenfe CuapP. Il, Eruca {ylveftris. Wilde Rocket. churli(hftomackeg, ' E the wilde Rockets that are more feldome ufed for falletsor fawfe except unto Chapter, and are moft {pentin Phyficall ufes, there are divers forts, as fhall be here declared in this ‘ } E and the otherthree thatfollow. ‘ 1. Eruca fyluestris vulgatior. The morecommon wildé Rocker. into flenThis common wilde Rocket hath longer and narrowerleaves much more divided, and tiderér cuts and jagges on bothfides ofthe middle ribbe, ofa fad over-worne greene colour, from among whichfeth fe tg ‘ Aaaa |
