i | ORD. XXIII. SILIQUOSA. 
(From Siliqua, a pod) 
i) | Plants having a pod for their seed-vessel. 
| 3 | shaceoni 
\ COCHLEARIA OFFICINALIS. COMMON SCURVY-GRASS. 
| SYNONYMA. Cochlearia hortensis. Pharm. Lond. & Edin. 
Cochlearia. J. Bauh. 2.942. Cochlearia rotundifolia. Gz-ard. 
324. Cochlearia folio subrotundo. Bauh. Pin. 110. Cochlearia 
major rotundifolia sive Batayorum. Park. 285, Cochlearia. 
& Raii. Hist. Spec. 1. p. 822. Synop. 302. Nasturtium follis 
radicalibus. subrotundis, caulinis oblongis, subsinuatis. Hal. 
Stirp. Helv. No. 503. Cochlearia officinalis. With. Bot. Arrang. 
677. Flor. Dan. t. 135. 
Class Tetradynamia. Ord. Siliculosa.. ZL. Gen. Plant. 803. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Silicula emarginata, turgida, scabra; volvulis gibbis, 
obtusis. 
Sp. Ch. C. foliis radicalibus cordato-subrotundis; caulinis oblongis 
subsinuatis. Caulis ramosus. | 
THE root is perennial, fibrous, and usually produces several 
* upright branched angular stems, about a span high; the radical 
leaves are heart or kidney-shaped, fleshy, succulent, and stand 
| upon long footstalks; the stem-leaves alternate, rhomboidal, 
blunt, and dentated on each side; towards the top the leaves are 
No. 33.— vot. 3. 5G 
Pm sao 
