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hally firiated, containing three irregular fhaped feeds. Its flowers 
appear from June till O&ober. 
This plant is a native of Peru; it was firft brought to France in 
1684, and there called La grande Capucine ; two yeats afterwards it 
was introduced into this country by Dr. Lumley Lloyd,* and fince 
that time has been conftantly cultivated in Britith gardens, 
In its recent ftate this plant, and more efpecially its flowers, have 
a fmell and tafte refemblirig thofe of water crefs; and the leaves, ‘on 
being bruifed-in a mortar, emit a piingent odour, fomewhat like that 
of horfe radifh. By diftillation with water they impregnate the fluid 
in a confiderable degree with the fmell and flavour of the plant.” 
Hence the antifcorbutic character of the Nafturtium feems to be well 
founded, at leaft as far as we are able to judge from its fenfible quali- 
ties: therefore in: all thofe cafes where the warm antifcorbutic vege- 
tables are recommended, this plant may be octafionally adopted 2 as a 
pleafant and effectual variety. ) , 
Patients, to whom the naufeous tafte of foubibieipcae is antoletable, 
may find a grateful fubftitute in the Nafturtium. _ 
The flowers are frequently ufed in fallads, and the capfules are by 
many highly efteemed as a pickle. 
The flowers, in the watm fummer diontlié, about the time of 
fun-fet, have been obferved to emit parks une thofe of the electrical 
kind, aes Pe 
a Vide Hort: Rewi 
_- ea. Diff. de Cardam. p. gs 
© Ket, Acad, Handl. 1762. p: 284. 
_ BERBERIS 
