a eel id 
= much used = that purpose in 
TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. Sisymbrium. 
* Bitter Cresses, or Ladies smock. Near purls of water, es 
on ieithe banks of rivers, boggy places, and moist meadow 
tures. Dorking, Surry ; Braintree, Essex ; Middleton, War: 
wickshire ; Lewishatn Harefield, Uxbridge, Batters, Chelsea 
and G. Comberton, Worcestershire, { Norwich. Mr. Crowz. 
Bungay, Suffolk. Mr. Woopwarp. oe Worcester. Sr. Aston on, 
near Birmingham, M4 P. April, May.* 
SISYMBRIUM. Pod cylindrical, opening; valves 
straightish, about the length of the wie ae 
ae and d/oss. expanding. 
(1) Pods declining ; short. 
s. Leaves winged; -leafits ege-shaped. 
ag: dan. 690-E. bot. 855—Woodv. 48—Fuchs. 723-7. P. ii, 
,; ~ 884-Trag. 82. 2—Dod. 592. 1—Lob.obs. 105. 3, and ic.1. 
209. 1—Ger. em. 257. 5—Park. 1239. 1-H. ox. iii. 4. 8- 
Per, 47. 2, and 3—Matth. 487—Lonic. i. 114. 2-Blackw. 
60. 
Bhs, white, terminating. © 
Common water-cresses, Springs, brooks, and rivulets. 
B, June, July.t 
S. Pods chiong-ep-shaped or cylindrical : ‘eafits spear- 
Shaped,’ se 
Cnty ett Bes 190-Ger. em. 248. 6-Park. 
-1249—Pet. 46. 5-H. ox. iti. 6. 17-Fuchs, 263-7. B. ii. 
866. Be. 
& very cen Leafits of the root-leaves 
dient 3 stem-leaves spear-sha 
Flowers cig 2 ede Petr dectning. Bloss. a lutle 
longer than th Eup Nect. glands 4, circle. Seeds gene- 
y eee: it increasing so , coasiblaliy by the root. Mr. 
Woopwarp. _ - Stem and reir zigzag. Pods with us 
the 
* Sheep eat it. Cows are not fond of it. Live. The young leaves 
are acrid and bitterish, but do not taste amiss in sallads. Laon. fc ved 
Vv 
in sucha degree a 0 promise very co 
sab medical 1 uses. The Papilio Cardamine ees upon the diferent 
Speci 
Thi isis very universally used as anearly and wholesome spring sal- 
lad. It is ane taslicas aati orbutic and stomachic, with less acrimony 
than the Scur rvy-grass, It isan ingredient in the anti-seorbutic juices. 
Nasturtium, 
sylves’tre, 
