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Show 818 Theatrum Botanicum. Cwar.2, fethdivers|fife ftalkes two of three foote high, fometimes fet with the like leaves but {maller, and {mailer upwards, branched from the middle into divers ftiffe ftalkes, TPRipe 7. 1. Eruca fylveftris vulgatior. The mere commonwilde Rocket. The Theater of Plants. T rise 7. Cuar, 3. 5; Erucacerulea, Blew flowred Rocket, This kinde of Rocket hath the lowelt leaves cut inon both fides foméwhat like a Rockety bar more like Groundéell in my mind, from among which rifep divers hairy ftraked ftalkes {carce a footc high, bearing rough beating fundry yellowflowers on them made of foure leaves QUQGoOe hairy leaves on them;leffe jagged, and fomenot atiall,fhorter alfo and narrower : atthe toppes ftand the flowers a peece as the othersare, which afterwards yeeld {mall reddithfeede in {mall long pods, of a more bitter and hotbiting {mooth pods with {mall reddith tharpe feedes therein : the roote is long flender and reddith with fome fibres tafte than the other, as the leavesare alfo, . 2. Eruca fylveftris minor parvo flore, Small ill {melling wilde Rocket. This {mall wilde Rocket doth not much differ from the Jah but in the fimellneffe of the leaves, branches, flowers, x and pods, for inall itis leffer, and the leaves, although as much divided, yet into {maller parts, and {melleth nothing well, rh Era Small vis minor Bure paftorss folio, Rocket of 44ompelier, This isa veryfinall Rocket, the ftalke not growingmuchabove.an hand breadth high, and fomewhat rough withall par- ted into fmailand fhort branches witha few leaves upon them at the joynts, whichare little or nothing divided, but thofe thar growat the foote of the ftalke next the ground, are fomewhat long and morecut in on the edges into divers parts, muchlike the leayesof Shepherdes purfe, and rough likewife; the flowers are fomewhat large and yellow ftanding upon long foote talkes, after which come {mall feede infinall and fhort pods. . 4: Eruca{ylueftr minor incana, Small hoary wilde Rocket. The hoarie wilde Rocket rifeth up with divers hoarie or whitith greene ftalkes halfe a foote high, and fometimes low- er, branching forth at the toppes into fhort fptigges ofan inch long, bearing manyfmall yellow flowers whichturne into very flender and fhort pods withfeed e: the leaves at the bottome are many very {mallcut and jagged, and hoarie over the whitih greene, as thofe upon the [talkes growing on each fide one above another are alfo. 5. Eruca ceralea. Blewflowred Rocker. one above another of an excellent purplith blew colour made of foure leaves, after-which come {mall lorie ereat, 6. Erucafylueftris anguftifolia, Nattow leafed wilde Rocket. Thisplant is doubefull whereunto it might be referred, in that it participateth of divers plants, namely of the leaves of Tarragon long and natrow ofthe colour of Rocket ; the yellow flowers of wilde Rocket upon ftalkes acubite high with cods of Muftard or Crefles and hot fharpe feede, and the whole face of &r)fimum Baricke Cre(fes, yerthe talte of Rocket. The Place, Manyofthefe are found wilde in divers places of our Land, although they are recorded by’ divers Authors to grow in others, yet fome of them are ftrangers to us, and therefore imparted to furnifh the gardens of the curious, The Time. Theykeépe the fame time to flowerand feede that the others doe, The Names, : The firth is called Eruca[ylveftris by Aatchiolus, Lobel, Dodonews and others: the fecond is called by Ge/zer in colleétione ftirpivm Eruca [ylveftrisfeetida, by Tabermontanus Eruta palufiris minor by Lucdunenfis Erica fyluepiris, and Ery/imum verum,and by Gerard Sinapipaluftresthe third and fourth Bawhinus hathfer forth bythe fame are inthetitles : the fift Bawhiaus hath fet forth in his A¢atthiolys and Phytopinax by the name of Eruea’p ceruleg, and in his Pinax by the name of Eruca cérslea in arenofts crefcens: the lalt is the Erauca/ylueftris angufti= folia of Lobel which Bauhinus calleth Eruca anguftifolia Austriaca, The Vertues, The wilde Rockets are hotter and dryer than thofe of the garden, more ftrong and effe@uall alfo to encreafe {perme and Venerous qualities whereuntothe fecde is no lefleeffectualll than the herbe ; it ferveth alfo to helpe digeltion, and to provokearine exceedingly : the {eede is ufed to cure the bitings of Serpents, the Scorpion, ‘and the Shrew-moufe,and other poyfons,and expelleth wormes and other noyfome creatures that engender inthe body. Pliny writeth(but thatit is too {uperftitiousto relatethatif one gatherthree leaves of Rocket with their lefe hand,and bruife them, and drinke them in medeor honied water, it fhall cure the jaundife,and that he that fhould fuffer whipping or beating, by drinking hereof in wine, fhall not have any fence thereof or feele any paine, bac I with that Péiny had beenea truerelator hereof by his owne experience firft, that others might have beleeved himthe better: the herbe boyled orftewed, and fome Suger put thereto helpeth the cough in children being taken often: the feede alfo takenin drinke taketh away the evill-fmell of the'arme-holes orpits, and of the reft of the body, and encreafeth milkein Nurfes breafts, and wafteth the fpleene : the feede of wilde Rocket mixed withhony and ufed onthe face clenfeth the skinne from fpors, morphew, and other dilcolourings therein, and ufed with Vinegar taketh away freckles and other rednefle hapning in the face or other parts, andufed with the gall of an Oxeit amendeth foulefcarres; blacke and blew fpots, andthe markes of the {mall poxe reftoring the skinnetojits owne colour againe, As both thefe Rockets, ard the former are forbidden to be ufed alone; in regard their fharpneffe dothfumeinto the head, there caufing éach and paine,(o they are no leffe hartfull to hot and chollericke petfons, and to be forbidden them for feare ofinflamming their blond, and therefore for finch we may faya little dothbur alittle harme. Cuap. III, Barbarea. Winter Creffes, or rather Winter Rocket. \Nto the Rocket ( and not unto the Créffes as the name hereof commonly givetn dothimport ) by the judgementof the beft Herbarifts. in thefe dayes pertainech this Barbarea, whereof there are two forts more, althoughuntill verylately one onely was knowne. 1, Barbarea fimplici flore.. Common Winter Rocket or Crefles. es The Winter Creffes or Rocket whether he will, hath divers fomewhat large fad greene leaves lying uponthe ground torne or cut into divers parts fomewhat like untoRocket or Turnep leaves, & nothing like, Crefles with fmaller peeces next the bottome, and broade atthe ends which foabideall the Winte:(ifict 5 whenitisufed to beeaten either greene or ftewed ) fromamong which rifech‘up divers roundftalkesfull ofbranches, bearing many fmall yellow flowers of foure leaves af I after which come {mall long pods with reddifh feede in them: the rooteis fomewhat {tringie, andperifheth ever after the {cede is ripe, 2, Barbareaflore pleno. Double flowred Winter Creffes, The double howred Winter Creffes differeth not from: the former but in the greatnefle of the ftalkes whichare bigger and crefted, yet fhorter inthe leaves being an inch long cutin on the ¢iges in the {ame manner, and in the flowers which aredonble and fomewhatlarger bat yellowas the fingle, and in the roote whichperifh- ethnot but abideth many yeares. ts Barbarea minor, Small Winter Crefles, This fmaller fort hath blackith greene leaves fomewhatjagged.or torne on the fides refembling Moth-Mullein, the flowers are yellow and leffe than the former, and: fo are the:cods likewifes the roote hereof perifhethlike the firlt, The Place, . The firlk groweth oftentimes of its owne accord in gardens and inthefields alfobythe pathes and wayesfide : Aaaa 2 in |