Note 193 — {41} Fifthly, Of Plants.

“Knaves’-mustard (for that it is too bad for honest men).”—Gerard, p. 262. The “New-England mustard,” which was like it, may be Lepidium Virginicum, L.; which, having “a taste like common garden-cress, or peppergrass” (Bigel., Fl. Bost., in loco), perhaps attracted the first settlers.