918 OULPBPBR'B OOlCFLVrB HSSBAL. 



Government and Virtues. — It is uoder Mercury. It is of 

 A bitterish styptic taste, and is drying and binding, and a 

 good vulnerary, helpful for all kinds of fluxes: a decoction 

 used as a gargle is commended for ulcers in the mouth. 



SCURVY-GRASS (COMMON GARDEN.) -('CocA- 

 learia Oficinalis.) 



Deecrip. — This has thick flat leaves more long than 

 broad, and sometimes longer and narrower ; sometimes 

 also smooth on the edges, and sometimes a little waved ; 

 sometimes plain, smooth, and pointed, of a sad green, and 

 sometimes a blueish colour, every one standing itself upon 

 a long footstalk, which is brownish or greenish also, from 

 which arise many slender stalks, bearing few leaves like 

 the other, but longer and lesser for the most part ; at the 

 tops grow many whitish flowers, with yellow threads in the 

 middle, standing about a green head, which becomes the 

 Beed-vessel, and is sometimes flat when it is ripe, wherein 

 is contained reddish seed, tasting rather hot. The root is 

 made of many white strings, which stick deeply into the 

 mud, wherein it chiefly delights, yet it will abide in the 

 more upland and drier ground, and tastes brackish there, 

 but not 80 much as where it feeds upon the salt water. 



Place. — It grows upon the sides of the Thames, both on 

 the Essex and Kentish shores, from Woolwich round the 

 sea coasts to Dover, Portsmouth and Bristol plentifully ; 

 the other with round leaves, grows in Lincolnsnire, by the 

 sea-coast. 



SCURVY-GRASS (DUTCH ROUND-LEAVED.)— 



(Cochlearia Rotundifolia.) 



Deecrip. — The root is long and full of fibres, from it 

 springs a number of flattish succulent green leaves on long 

 footstalks, which are round and rather hollow, resembling 

 A spoon, whence it has its name Cochlearia. The stalks grow 

 eight or nine inches high, brittle, and clothed with the like 

 leaves, which are more angular and pointed ; the flowers 

 grow in tufts on the tops of the stalks, consisting of four 

 small white leaves, which are succeeded by little, round, 

 swelling seed-vessels, parted in the middle by a thin film, 

 and containing small round seeds : both leaves and flowers 

 have a biting not taste. 



PUice, — It grows wild in the north of England, by tb« 

 sea-side ; but is very much cultivated in gardens. 



Time. — It flowers in April. 



