The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

¶ The Description.

1 WOoddy Mustard hath long narrow leaues declining to whitenesse, like those of the stocke Gilloflower, but smaller, very like the leaues of Rosemary, but somewhat broader, with rough stalks very tough and pliant, being of the substance of wood: the floures grow at the top, white of colour: the seeds do follow, in taste sharpe and biting. The huskes or seed-vessels are round and somewhat longish.

2 Small wooddy Mustard groweth to the height of two cubits, with many stalkes set with small narrow leaues like those of Hyssop, but rougher; and at the top grow floures like those of Treacle Mustard, or Thlaspi. The whole plant groweth as a shrub or hedge-bush.

3 Thorny Mustard groweth vp to the height of foure cubits, of a wooddy substance, like vnto a hedge-bush, or wilde shrub, with stalkes beset with leaues, floures, and seeds like the last before mentioned; agreeing in all points, sauing in the cruell pricking sharpe thornes wherewith this plant is armed; the other not. The root is tough, wooddy, and some strings or fibres annexed thereto.

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1 Thlaspi fruticosum incanum. Hoary wooddy Mustard.

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2 Thlaspi fruticosum minus. Small wooddy Mustard.

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3 Thlaspi spinosum. Thorny Mustard.

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‡ 4 Thlaspi fruticosum folio 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Bushy Mustard.

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‡ 5 Thlaspi hederacium. Iuy Mustard.

4 There is another sort of wooddy Mustard growing in shadowie and obscure mountaines, and rough stony places resembling the last described; sauing that this plant hath no pricks at all, but ma∣ny small branches set thick with leaues, resembling those of the lesser sea 〈◊〉〈◊〉: the floures are many and white; the seed like the other Thlaspies: the root is wooddy and fibrous.

‡ 5 There is (saith Lobel) in Portland and about Plimouth, and vpon other rockes on the sea coast of England, a creeping little herbe hauing small red crested stalkes about a spanne high: the leaues are thicke and fashioned like Iuy; the white floures and small seeds do in taste and shape resem∣ble the Thlaspies. ‡