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common with many otlier of the verticillatas, it may be employed as 
an errhine, and in that way cure a head-ach/ but no otherways by 
any fpecific quality." It is ufually taken in the way of infufion, or 
drunk as tea. - 
r ^ Ray gives a remarkable inftance of its efficacy in this way. In the ca^e of Mr, 
Olclacres, and fays, " Succus hujus plantse narlbus attracStus cephalalgiam etiam vehe- 
mentlirimain & inveteratam uon lenit tantum fed & penltus aufert — Medicamentum 
hoc non fatis poteft laudari, fi res ex ufu ^ilimarcnturj auro sequiparandum/^ 1. c. 
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COCHLEARIA OFFICINALIS. C0MA40N SCURVY-GRASS. 
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Cochlearia folio fubrotund 
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fubrotund 
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oblongis, fubfi 
Nafturtium foliis radicalibus 
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Cochlearia officinalis. With, Bot» Arrang, 677, Ftor, Dan 
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Clafs Tetradynamia. Ord. Siliculofa, 
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Eff, Gen, Ch, Silicula emargliiata, turgida, fcabra ; volvulis gibbis, 
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C. foliis radicalibus cordato-fubrotundis 5 caulinis oblongis 
fubfinuatis. Catdis ramofus, . , 
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THE root is perennial, fibrous, and ufually produces feveral 
upright branched angular Hems, about a fpan high ; the radical leaves 
are heart or kidney-fhaped, flelhy, fucculent, and ftand upon long 
footftalks ; the ftem-leaves alternate, rhomboidal, blunt, and dentated 
on each fide ; towards the top the leaves are feffile, or embracing the 
ftem, but towards the bottom they are frequently upon fhort broad 
footftalks ; the flowers are cruciform, and ftand upon fliort peduncles 
- terminating 
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