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small starlike leaves close to the ground, has 

 a very minute white flower, and is conspicu- 

 ous only from its leaves in its second year 

 covering at times a foot or more of ground. 



Pepper GrasH (Lepidium Yirginicum) grows 

 everywhere, bearing imall white flowers, 

 only the twelfth of an inch in size. It is 

 slightly hairy with a s^tem from one to two 

 feet high. 



S^.itrvy Grass (Cakile Oequalis) growing 

 on seaside rocks and in sandy bays is men- 

 tioned by one of the ^arly discoverers. It 

 is a smooth fleshy plant, one to two feet high, 

 with lilac flowers, haif-an-inch wide. Keade, 

 in his botany, expresses a doubt about this 

 being the real scurvy grass (cochleana offi- 

 cinalis) and the question is still an open one. 

 However, the scurvy dispelling properties of 

 this plant have been tested and found eft'ect- 

 ive. 



The Marsh Mallow (Altha?a Oflicinali?) with 

 its showy rosecoloured blossoms is fouiul 

 principally in the Pembroke and Devonshire 

 marshes. It is a stout, sofr., downy plant, 

 from two to three feet high. It forms one of 

 the nati%'e rtmedies for coughs, boiled down 

 to a conserve. 



The Burr Bush (Triumfetta Althoeoides) is 

 a shrubby plant, three to four feet high, 

 covered with down. Its flowers are yellow, 

 quarter of an inch across, and its four-Sf^eded 

 pods are covered with hairy-hooked spines. 



St. Andrew's Cross (Ascj^rum Hypericoideg) 

 is a small branching shrub two to four feet 

 high, with yellow flowers, growing mostly in 

 marsh land. How its name originated is open 

 to conjecture, but may have ai'isen from it>i 

 defective petals, sometimes assuming a St. 

 Andrew's Cross form. 



