COCHLEA'RIA GRCENLAN'DICA. 



GREENLAND SCURVY-GRASS. 

 Class. Order. 



TETRADYNAMIA. SILICULOS.S. 



Natural Order. 



CRUCIFERjE. 



No. 64. 



From the Latin cochleare, a spoon ; a term ap- 

 plied to this family of plants from the formation of 

 their leaves being concave, and resembling an old 

 fashioned spoon. Groenlandica, from the country 

 where it has been found. It has, occasionally, been 

 met with also in the Orkneys, and on the mountains 

 of Scotland. 



This species is, by some authors, termed a starved 

 variety of the officinalis, an English species, pretty 

 well known in the north, and on the sea coast, a 

 plant which has obtained for the genus the title of 

 scurvy-grass. Its efficacy in scorbutic affections 

 appears to be established on the most respectable 

 authorities, and though various preparations of the 

 Cochlearia officinalis are prescribed, it is generally 

 acknowledged that the green plant taken as a salad, 

 is by far the most efficacious mode of employing it 

 as an antiscorbutic. 



The best method of keeping the Greenland scur- 

 vy-grass, is in a small pot of light loam ; and like 

 most other alpine plants, it succeeds best in a high 

 and open situation, where it has the full advantage 

 of pure air. 



Withering, 678. 



