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S I S 



THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



SI S 



** Siliques sessile, axillary. 



12. Sisymbrium Supinum; Decumbent Wild Rocket. Si- 

 liques axillary, subsessile, solitary; leaves tooth-sinuate. An- 

 nual, flowering in June and July. Native of the south of 

 Europe. 



13. Sisymbrium Polyceratium ; Dandelion-leaved Wild 

 Rocket. Siliques axillary, sessile, awl-shaped, aggregate; 

 leaves repand, toothed; flowers in axillary clusters, small 

 and yellow. Native of the south of France, and of Italy. 



14. Sisymbrium Filifolium ; Three-leaved Wild Rocket. 

 Siliques axillary, subsessile, compressed ; leaves linear. 

 Annual. Native of Siberia, by the river Kuma. 



15. Sisymbrium Bursifplium; Shepherd's Purse-leaved Wild 

 Rocket. Raceme flexuose ; leaves lyrate ; stem erect, leafy. 

 Native of Italy, in moist mountainous parts. 



16. Sisymbrium Torulosum ; Swoln-podded Wild Rocket. 

 Raceme erect; siliques sessile, pubescent; leaves lanceolate, 

 toothed ; stem branched, rough with short spreading hairs. 

 Annual. It flowers early in spring. Native of Tunis. 



*** Stem naked. 



17. Sisymbrium Murale; Wall Wild Rocket. Almost stem- 

 less: leaves lanceolate, sinuate, serrate, sinoothish ; scapes 

 somewhat rugged, ascending. Root annual. Native of 

 France, Italy, and the isle of Thanet, in waste sandy ground. 



18. Sisymbrium Monense; Dwarf Sea Rocket. Siliques 

 almost upright; leaves pinnatifid, somewhat hairy; stems 

 quite entire, simple, almost naked, smooth. Root perennial 

 and strong. Found in the Isle of Man ; in Sella-fields Sea- 

 bank, Cumberland; also between Marsh Grainge and the Isle 

 of Walney; and in various parts of Scotland. 



19. Sisymbrium Repandum ; Sinuate-leaved Wild Rocket. 

 Stem simple, naked ; leaves oblong, repand-sinuate, smooth ; 

 scapes smooth ; siliques compressed, four-cornered. Peren- 

 nial. Native of Provence, Dauphiny, and Piedmont. 



20. Sisymbrium Tillieri. Stem almost naked, panicled ; 

 leaves smooth ; root-leaves runcinate, sublyrate ; stem-leaves 

 pinnatifid at the base; flowers yellow. Native of the Val 

 d'Aost. 



21. Sisymbrium Vimineum. Stems widely spreading, leafy 

 at the base ; leaves lyrate, even ; scapes ascending ; flowers 

 minute. Native of the south of France and Italy. 



22. Sisymbrium Barrelieri ; Small Wild Rocket. Stem 

 almost naked, branched; root-leaves runcinate, toothed, his- 

 pid. Root annual. It is allied to the next species, but differs 

 in having yellow flowers. Native of Spain and Italy. 



23. Sisymbrium Arenosum ; Sandy Wild Rocket. Stem 

 somewhat leafy, branched; leaves lyrate, rectangular, toothed, 

 hispid, with branched hairs ; corollas white tinged with pale 

 violet, or quite white, or all purple. Annual. Native of 

 Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Carniola. 



24. Sisymbrium Valantinum; Valentia Wild Rocket. Stem 

 simple, erect, smooth above; leaves lanceolate, hispid, toothed 

 in front. Root annual. Native of Spain, in the kingdom of 

 Valencia, and about Madrid. 



** Leaves pinnate. 



25. Sisymbrium Parra ; Brazil Wild Rocket. Caulescent : 

 leaves runcinate, muricate ; root annual or biennial ; silique 

 round, cylindrical, even, swelling a little at the seeds. Stem- 

 less in the first year. Native of Brazil. 



26. Sisymbriurn Asperum ; Rough-podded Wild Rocket. 

 Siliques rugged ; leaves pinnatifid ; pinnas linear-lanceolate, 

 somewhat toothed ; corollas longer than the calix. Annual, 

 flowering in May and June. Native of the south of France, 

 and in the marshes about Estremadura, in Spain. 



27. Sisymbrium Laevigatum ; Smooth-podded Wild Rocket. 

 Siliques smooth ; leaves pinnate; pinnules of the lower 



toothed, of the upper linear, and quite entire. Root annual ; 

 flowers yellow ; siliques an inch and half long, smooth. 

 Native place uncertain. 



28. Sisymbrium Millefolium; Milfoil-leaved Wild Rocket. 

 Leaves superdecompound, tomentose ; petals larger than the 

 ealix. It flowers from May to September. Native of the 

 rocks of Teneriflfe. It resembles the following species. 



29. Sisymbrium Sophia ; Flixweed. Leaves pinnate, decom- 

 pounded, somewhat hairy ; petals smaller than the calix. Root 

 annual, small, tapering; stem a foot and half to two feet high, 

 upright, round, much branched, and very leafy ; flowers in- 

 conspicuous, pale yellow. This plant received its English 

 name from the quality attributed to it of curing immoderate 

 purging. It is useful in hysteric complaints; and the seeds 

 are given to destroy worms. The juice of the leaves, or a 

 decoction of the seeds, are excellent astringent medicines, 

 and may be given to advantage in the bloody flux, spitting of 

 blood, immoderate menstrual discharges, and all other haemor- 

 rhages. The pods retain the seeds all the winter, and are 

 then the food of small birds. Cattle seldom touch this plant. 

 The force of gunpowder is said to be augmented by mixing a 

 tenth part of the seeds with the other ingredients. It occurs 

 in most parts of Europe, upon walls, among rubbish, about 

 church-yards, waste grounds, hedges, and dunghills, flower- 

 ing in summer, and ripening its seeds in September. 



30. Sisymbrium Album ; While Wild Rocket. Leaves 

 whitish, pubescent, pinnate; leaflets obtuse, attenuated at 

 the base. Root perennial ; stems a span high, upright, very 

 finely tomentose. Native of Siberia. 



31. Sisymbrium Cinereum ; Ash-coloured Wild Rocket. 

 Leaves pubescent, somewhat fleshy, pinnate ; pinnas linear, 

 filiform ; flower violet-coloured. Annual. Native of Barbary. 



32. Sisymbrium Altissimum ; Tall Wild Rocket. Leaves 

 runcinate, flaccid ; leaflets sublineaf, quite entire ; peduncles 

 loose ; flowers scattered at the ends of the branches. It 

 flowers in August.- Native of Siberia, Armenia, and Austria. 



33. Sisymbrium Echartsbergense ; Austrian Wild Rocket. 

 Leaves runcinate, flaccid, rugged at the edge, and quite en- 

 tire; siliques filiform, inflex, patulous. Annual. Supposed 

 to be a native of Thnringia. 



34. Sisymbrium Pannonicum ; Hungarian Wild Rocket. 

 Lower leaves runcinate, toothed ; upper pinnate ; pinnas 

 linear, quite entire; siliques spreading rectangularly; calix 

 and corolla yellow. It is an annual plant, flowering in 

 August. Native of Hungary. 



35. Sisymbrium Erysimoides. Leaves runcinate, lyrate, 

 toothed, smooth ; siliques spreading rectangularly, subpe- 

 duncled. Flowers small, white ; racemes long. Native of 

 Tunis near Kerwan, in sandy places. 



36. Sisymbrium Frio; London Wild Rocket, or Broad- 

 leaved Hedge Mustard. Leaves runcinate, toothed, naked ; 

 stem smooth ; siliques erect, very long. Root annual, fusi- 

 form, small. Stem upright, from one to two feet high, round, 

 shining, here and there purplish, somewhat flexuose. The 

 whole plant is perfectly smooth, with the biting taste of mus- 

 tard ; seeds very small, pale yellow, and being a little protu- 

 berant, the pods have the appearance of being finely jointed, a 

 character which readily distinguishes this plant. After the 

 great fire of London in 1666, this plant came up in such abun- 

 dance on the ruins, that in many places it might have been 

 mowed like a field of corn. It is still frequent in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the metropolis. Native of many parts of Europe, 

 in corn-fields; with us on dry banks, old walls, and among 

 rubbish ; flowering from June to July or August. 



37. Sisymbrium Columnas; Columna's Wild Rocket. Leaves 

 runcinate, toothed, with the stem villoseand somewhat hoary; 



