FAMILY HERBAL, 30? 



perfectly depended upon, because there is so much 

 difference in several parcels of scammony, that they 

 seem hardly the same medicine, some are so very 

 strong 1 , and some so weak. 



Garden Scurvy Grass. Cothlearia hortensis. 



A common wild plant about our sea coasts, 

 but kept also in gardens for its virtues ; it is a foot 

 high : the stalks are round, weak, and green ; the 

 leaves that rise from the root make the most con- 

 siderable appearance ; they stand in a large tuft, 

 and are of a roundish figure, and a bright green 

 colour, tender, juicy, and supported on long and 

 slender foot-stalks. There are but few leaves on 

 the stalks, and they are not so round as those from 

 the root, but are a little angular and pointed. 

 The flowers stand at the tops of the stalks, in little 

 clusters ; they are white, small, and bright; they are 

 succeeded by short roundish seed-vessels. 



The fresh leaves are used, and the best way of 

 all is to drink the pressed juice of them ; this is 

 excellent against the scurvy, and all other foul- 

 nesses of the blood. It may be mixed with Seville 

 orange juice to make it pleasant, and should l>e 

 token every day for six weeks or two months toge- 

 ther in spring. 



Sea Scurvy Grass. Cochlcaria marina. 



A common plant also about our sea coasts, 

 and by the sides of rivers, where the tide comes 

 The leaves are not so numerous as those of the other ; 

 and they are oblong, of a reddish green colour, 

 pointed at the ends, and indented at the edges in an 

 irregular manner they are considerably larger than 

 the*;. 1 of garden scurvy grass, and moi - fleshy. The 



