¶ The Description.
CResses of India haue many weake and feeble branches, rising immediately from the ground, dispersing themselues far abroade; by meanes whereof one plant doth occupie a great cir∣cuit of ground, as doth the great Bindeweede. The tender stalkes diuide themselues into sun∣dry branches, trailing likewise vpon the ground, somewhat bunched or swollen vp at euery ioint or knee, which are in colour of a light red, but the spaces betweene the ioints are greene. The leaues are round like wall peniwort, called Cotyledon, the footestalke of the leafe commeth forth on the backeside almost in the middest of the leafe, as those of Frogbit, in taste and smell like the garden Cresses. The flowers are dispersed throughout the whole plant, of colour yellow, with a crossed starre ouerthwart the inside, of a deepe orange colour; vnto the backe part of the same doth hang a taile or spurre, such as hath the Larkes heele, called in Latine Consolida Regalis, but greater, and the spurre or heele longer; which being past there succeed bunched and knobbed cods or seede vessels, wherein is contained the seede, rough, browne of colour, and like vnto the seedes of the beete, but smaller.