CLXI. 



COCHLEARIA OFFICINALIS. 



Common Scurvy-grass, 



Class XV. Tetradynamia. — Order I. Siliculosa. 



Nat. Ord. Crucifeile. 



Gen. Char. See Horse-radish {Cochlearia Armoracia). 



Spec. Char. Silicles globose. Radical leaves petiolate, 

 cordate-reniform ; cauline ones sessile, ovate, sin- 

 uated. 



SYNONYMES. 

 Cochlearia folia subrotundo. Bauh. Pin. 1 1 0. 



Latin <( 



Cochlearia rotundifolia. Ger. Em. 401. 



Cochlearia major rotundifolia, sive batavorum. Park. Theatr. 



285. 

 Cochlearia. Raii Hist. 822; Syn. 302. Cam. Epit. 271- 



Dod. Pempt. 583. 

 Cochlearia officinalis. Lin. Sp. PI. 903. Eny. Fl. iii. p. 174. 

 ^ Eng. Bot. t. 351. 

 French. . . . Cochlearia ; Herbe aux cuillers. 

 Ital. Span. * Coclearia . 



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 German . . Loffelkraut ; LofFelkresse ; Scharbockskraut. 

 Dutch .... Lepelkruid ; Lepelblad. 



Danish Skeeurt. 



Swedish . . . Skedcert. 

 Polish .... Warzechwa. 



Description. — The root is annual, elongated, whitish, and 

 beset with numerous capillary fibres. The stems are several, 

 feeble, somewhat procumbent below, then erect, slightly 

 branched, somewhat angular, glabrous, attaining the height of 

 six or eight inches. The radical leaves are numerous, cordate- 

 reniform, obtuse, entire or angular, slightly concave, and are 

 supported on long petioles ; the cauline ones are smaller, ovate, 

 spatulate, toothed, on short petioles, the uppermost sessile, sub- 



