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Show 24.2 The. »BaRAl ar $ it were knotty, the feeds fhewing themfelves through them. HOHEIRIBA HT pifms. Thefe are good in’ paralytic cafes. j ‘ 3 sand _ ee often in fevers attended with light-headedne The feeds are naturally white, whence the plant has its name white mujftard; but they fometimes lofe that colour, and become brown or redifh: they are very large and round. J. Bauhine, whois happier in his diftinétions of the muftard kind than Cafpar, calls this Sinapi album filiqua hirfuta femine albo vel ruffo. C. Bau- hinevcalls ‘it Sinapi apit folio; but this’is not a good character of the leaf, the divifion not being fo frequent or deep as to require fuch a defcription. It is commonin wafte places, and is often cultivated in gardens. The two kinds of muftard agree in their virtues, which are very confiderable. The young fhootsare eaten asfallet with thofe “of radifh, and fome others : thefe make together what the gardenerscall young falleting, or {pring falleting ; and this way theyare very wholefome. Thefeeds are of frequent ufe at our tables, and are very wholefome: but, befide their ufe with our food in the way of mujtard, they are fre- quently taken whole as a medicine. This way given, they are excellent againft rheumatic complaints, and againft the falling. ficknefs. They operate by urine, and moderately promote the menfes ; and at the fame time that they “have’ thefe feveral good ‘effects, they ftrengthen the ftomach,- prevent flatulences, and create an appetite. A table-fpoonful of the feeds unbruifed may be taken for this purpofe every morning. In thofe pains of the back to which gouty people are fubje&t, and which are ufually attended with fomewhatof the gravel, this is an excellent remedy. The feeds bruifed, and applied to the fkin, bring on a rednefs and heat: they are a gentler kind of blifter, and in this ufe are called /ina- Dil VilGa O N> <i; Sinapi eruse folio. Sinapt arz Lo [0 ASu fd The rootis long, flender, and hung with a few fibres. Thefirft leaves are numerous, and very large : they are long, broad, andregularly divided into four or five pairs of fegments at the edge, fo Pye RBA &. bee Al, Ry Ae © SH. rapi/ The root is long, flender; white, and fa; with a few fibres. The firft leaves are long, large, and ofa dead yellowith green: they are deeply divided at the lower part, in fuch a manner as to bear a rude-re. femblance of the pinnated form, and terminated by'a large, oblong piece; that‘ and allt! other fegments being fomewhat pointed at tl ne ends, and ferrated.at the edges. hoa ftalks are numerous, round, branched; and a foot and ahalf high ; but they do not ftand regularly upright, The leaves on the lower part of thefe ftandirregularly, and refemble thofe fromthe root : bit thofe near the tops of the branches are fimple, fmall, oblong, and undivided. Phe flowers are moderately large and yellow, The pods are large, long, and full oflarge feeds : they ftand out fromthe ftalks. The feeds are of a deep blackith colour, It is very frequent in cultivated land, to the great injury of the farmer. It flowers in July. C: Bauhine calls it Rapiftrum arvorum fore lye teo, and others follow him. Non GE 3. Charlock, : ‘Thefirft appeatance ofthis plant is notunlike that of the turnip, and very unhappy miftakes have. arifen from this refemblance. A farmer who has fent in unfkilful weeders to cleaé a turnip-field, has had all his turnips pulled up, and all the charlock left. The roots at this early period of growth have little difference ; but the charlock leaves are more pointed at the ends. There is a white-flowered plant, commonly numbered with the charlock among the mujtard kind; but it is properly a raphanifirum, and will be defcribed ed in in its i place in i a fucceeding i genus. FOREIGN 1. Rocket-leaved Muftard. The BRITISH SPECT E's! all refpects refemble thofe from the root, each being divided deeply into narrow Peers . The flowers are fmall and yellow: they ftand at the tops of the flalks and branches, and are but of fhort duration; but theyare quickly fucceeded byothers. The feed-veffels ftand in a lone fpike, and at a good diftance from the ftalk, fs : that they refemble pinnated leaves: all thefe fecThe feeds are large and brown. ments, as well as the terminating one, are fae : It is common in France and Italy, and flowers narrow, and undivided, and the whole leaf is Ge in June. a faint ‘green. C. Bauhine calls it Sinapi eruce folio, a name Theftalk is round, upright, and divided into | very well expreffing the plant, its leaves much many branches : it grows to afoot and half high, tefembl ing thofe of the wild rocket. Others, Siandthick fet with leaves: thefe are large, arden napt fylveftre minus. R a PR AON SOS ys 5 thefe are of a heart-fafhioned PIE flower is compofed of four petals, difpofed crofs-wa alittle longer than the cup? the cup is formed fhape, ani d have very flender bottoms, which are and open much, erect; and thick at the bafe; they do:not of four leaves, which are narrow, oblong, {welled out by the feeds fel is thick, rounded, fpungy, feed-vef the flower: the with the whole cup falls is terminated by a long point: ‘the feeds are numein feparate parts, fo that it appears jointed, and d. roun and rous, large, four of the fix threads:in the flower being Linnzus place s this among the #efradynamia Jiliquofa, being a regular pod: effel feed-v the and two, other: longer than the properly belong- iftrum and cakile of authors ; ‘they He very rafhly joins under this head the raphan tions. diftinc the fhewe fhall we a: gener ing to feparate DIvV.1S10.N I, BRELTAS Ho SPE VES. The leaves on the lower part of it refemble 7/ Wild:white Radifli; 72: 32+ | thofe from the root; but thofe higher up are te. alben e radic Raphanus fylveftris fimple, oblong, and only jagged at the edges. , and perfectly The root is long, thick, flefhy gardens, but that our f radio n commo the like it, but milder, and it is white: the tafte is like r-from its. growthe fubftance only a little harde it is crooked, or imes fomet ; d groun worfe in ine when it has fplit from ftones in its paflage: but it a white racall d woul one any h, growt free dip. y and very deepl The leaves are large, long, of fegments,-redivided into a'number of pairs and a roundifh piece at fernbling fo many pinnz, green, and fomethe end: they are of.a dufky of . ; what rough to the touch ht, fmooth, divided The ftalk is round, uprig two’ feet high. into many branches, and Diva st ON OI cultivated among This, though, fo commonly ry. us, is not a native of our count flefhy, of a deThe root is long, flender, and mixed with white, licate purple or redifh colour, ia and ofa fharp, pleafing tafte. in their diviThe leaves are large, long, and ts of four or fion plainly pinnated: each confif a larger alfo five pairs of roundifh pinne, with rounded at the end. and three The ftalk is round, firm, upright, hes, and feet high: it is divided into feveral branc has a fewleaves placed irregularly on it. than Thefe are compoled of narrower. pinne lour. thofe from the root, and areofa palerco modeThe flowers are very numerous, and rately large: they ftand at the tops of the e branches; and are white, witha tinge of purpl more in fome, andlefs in others. ed-veffe] is thick, flefhy, or fpungy, and yelled out into a kind of joints. ur: The feed-veffel is thick jointed, and, while young and tender, is fpungy, but it afterwards gets almoft a woody hardnefs, and becomes ftriated; The feeds are round and brown. It is found in fome parts of Suffex, principally near the fea-coaft, and flowers in June. Ray. calls it Raphanus maritimus flore luteo fili- quis articulatis” fecundum longitudinem...eminenter jfiriatis. One would ‘think the’ garden-radi/b vaifed from this, but for the colour of the flower. fF OOR £ 2 oon x, Garden-Radifh. Raphanus vulgaris. The feeds are | The flowéfs\ftand at the-tops of the ftalks and branches: they are fmall and yellow. and of a redifh or purin every {welling of the SPE Cle Ss. It is a native of Spain, and flowersin, June. C. Bauhine calls ic Raphanus minor oblongus, Others, Raphanus fativus, and Raphanus vulgaris. 2. Round black Radifh. PCL. Raphanus radice rotundo nigro. The root is of the fhape and bignefs of a {mall turnip, black on the outfide,. white within, and of a flefhy fubftance: it is of a firmer texture than the common radi, and ofa tafte not ualike it, but to many palates more agreeable. The leaves that rife from this are long, pinnated, and of a black green: the feveral pina are narrower than in the common radifo, and are jagged at the edges, and: terminate in a point. The ftalk is round, upright, thick, firm, and 3 two feet high. The leaves on its lower part refemble thofe on the upper part are from the root; but thofe p {mall, fimple, and only notched at the with The flowers are fmall and purplith, but the fome white, and they grow at the topsot 5 {talks and branches, and The pods are thick, flefhy, fpungy, jointed. The . |