Methridate Mustard.
THis groweth higher then the former, spreading more and longer branches, whose leaves are smaller and narrower, some∣times unevenly dented about the edges; the Flowers are smal and white, growing on long branches, with much smaller and rounder seed vessels after them, and parted in the same manner, having smaller browne seeds then the former, and much sharper in taste: The root perisheth after seed time, but abideth the first winter after the springing.
Place.
They grow in sundry places of this Land, as halfe a mile from Hatfield by the river side under a hedge as you go to Hatfield, and in the street of Peckham on Surry side.
Time.
They flowre and seed from May to August.
Vertues and Use.
These Mustards are said to purge the bo∣dy both upwards and downwards, and procu∣reth Womens Courses so abundantly, that it suffocateth the birth: It breaketh inward Im∣posthumes being taken inwardly, and used in Glisters, helpeth the Sciatica, the seed applied outwardly doth the same. It is an especiall in∣gredient unto Methridate and Treacle, being of it selfe an Antidote resisting poyson, ve∣nome, and putrefaction: It is also availeable in many causes for which the common Mu∣stard is used, but somewhat weaker.