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terminating the branches in thick cluPi 
leafits, which are oval, blunt, 
lyx confifl 
s 
f f o 
c an c a V e 
ap 
1 
deciauous, 
d wh 
ur 
Ih 
the margin ; the petals are four, white, oval, fp 
diiiff. and 
b> 
the 
flio 
^n 
V 
th of the calyx ; the filam 
are 
fi 
X 
for 
a 
greenifh, taj 
d crowned with yellow antherse 
r 
d two 
it has 
ftyle, and the germen becomes a fmall romidiih compreffed pod 
Cumberl 
g rough feeds. It is found on the mountains of Scotland 
and Wales, but more commonly about the Sea fhores 
flowers in April and May. 
We have figured this plant from a fpecimen obtained from Mr 
Curtis's botanic garden at Brompton, wh 
differ 
s m no 
fped: 
from the fame 
rowing in 
he 
native foil, a 
mft 
^ 
vfhich induces many to cultivate S curvy- grafs 
ardens for med 
ufe 
It has an unpleafant fmell, and a warm acrid bitter tafte 
cc 
1 
Its 
a£tive matter is extradied by miaceration both in watery and 
tuous menfl 
Th 
moft 
and accompanies the j 
obtained by expreffi 
fiderable part of 
IS 
of 
y 
volatile ki 
the 
peculiar penetratin 
P 
ncy totally exhal 
the exficcation of 
herb, and in the evapoiration of the liquors. Its principal 
refides 
with water 
effential oil, feparable in a very fmall quantity, by dift 
. _-?»a o : r_ b • _ ■ _ ^* r „^! _ c .>.^ a. • . 
Scurvy-grafs 
and diuretic, and is faid to 
ope 
fep 
obftrud 
aper 
of the vifcera and 
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remoter glands, without heating or irritating the fyflem ; it has been 
long confidered as the moft efFedual of all the antifcorbutic plants,* 
■ 
» Lewis M. M. 242- " The oil is fo ponderous as to fink in the aqueous fluid, but 
of great volatility, fubtllity, and penetration. One drop diffolved in fpirit, or received 
on fugar, communicates to a quart of wine, or other liquors, the fmell and tafte of 
Scurvy-grafs.'* Lewis ]. c. ^ 
^ This fpecies is now preferred to all the other fpecies of Cochlearia for its medical ufe. 
See the experiments of Sir John Pringle. 
^ We have teftimony of its great ufe in fcurvy, riot on^y from phyficians, but 
navigators, as Anfon, Linfchoten, Maartens, Egede, and others. And it has been juftly 
noticed, that this plant grows moft plentifully in thofe high latitudes, where the fcurvy 
is moft obnoxious : Forfter found it in great abundance in the iflands of the South Sea. 
In Iflandia parant incol^e banc herbam cum la£te acidulato vel ejus fero; condiunt earn 
etiam fale culinari in magnis doliis, & per hiemem fe*rvant Cum oves in locis, ub' 
Cochlearia crefcit, pafcuntur, avide quldem illam edunt & valde pinguefcunt, fed caro 
naufeofo fapore inficitur, Olafsen, Re^fe durch JJland. T^ I. p. ^57/ Vide Berg. 
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