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COCHLEARTA ARMORACIA. HORSE-RADISH. 
ST NO NT MA. Raphanus rufticanus. Pbarm. Lond. V-Edit& 
Bauh. Pin. p. 96. Gerard. Emac. p. 241. Park. Tbeat. p. 860, 
Rail Hift. p. 8 iff.- Synop. p. 301. Hift. Ox. Hi. t. y.f. 2 . Naf- 
,*. 
m foliis radicalibus 
ncifis. Hal. 
Stirp. Helv. n. 504. Cochlearia Armoracia. Hudf. Ang. ^,284 
Withering Bot. Arr. p. 681. Relhan Flor. Cant,- p. 249. 
Clafs Tetradynamia. Ord. Siliculofa. Lin. Gen. Plan L . 8 03, 
EJf. Gen. Cb. Silicula emarginata, turgida, fcabra r- valvulis gibbis,- 
obtufis. 
Sp. Cb. C. foliis radicalibus lanceolatis crenatis ; caulinis incifis 
THE root is perennial, long, tapering, white : the ftalk is round, 
e&, branched, fmooth, and rifes two or three feet in height : the 
radical leaves are very large, lance-fhaped, fcolloped at the edges* 
and ftand on flrong footftalks ; thofe of the ftalk are much fmaller, 
narrow, and often divided at the edges : the flowers are white, nu- 
merous, and terminate the branches in thick clufters : the calyx is 
compofed of four leaves, which are egg-fhaped, concave, opening, 
and deciduous: the corolla confifts of four inverfely egg-ihaped 
petals, which expand in oppofite diredions, and form a crofsj they 
are twice the fize of the calyx, and are inferted by narrow claws : 
the filaments are fix, tapering, the two oppofite ones fhorter than the 
other four, and all furnifhed with blunt compreffed anther* : the 
germen is heart-fhaped, fupporting a fimple ftyle, which is fhort, 
permanent, and furnifhed with an obtufe ftigma : the capfule is heart- 
fhaped, turgid, flightly notched at the end, and furnifhed with the 
ityle ; it is divided into two cells, each containing about four feed 8 
It is found growing wild in many parts of England, partic 
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