42 I. VEGETABLES — Atriplices. 



arvensis, Acetosella, R. acetosella. Root cooling purges ; leaves 

 contain much oxalate of potash, very cooling, antiscorbutic, eaten 

 in salads; make excellent whey by boiling a few in milk. 



Sea-side grape, Coccoloha uvifera. Fruit very astringent, 

 yields Jamaica kino. — * Common knot grass, Centinodia, Polygonum, 

 P. aviculare. Herb vulnerary, astringent; seeds nauseously 

 aromatic, emetic, sometimes purgative. 



*BucK WHEAT, Fagopyrum, Polygonum fagopyrum* Seeds 

 nutritive, fattening, well-flavoured, made into bread, yield an oil. 



*Black bind-weed, Voluhilis nigra, Polygonum convolvulus. 

 Seeds equally nutritive as buck wheat, and much easier to 

 cultivate. 



*BisTORT, Snake weed, Bistorta, Polygonum bistorta. Root, 

 histortce radix, very astringent, dose 3j to oj ; tans leather very 

 well ; young shoots eaten as greens. 



*Dead arse-smart, Persicaria, Polygonum persicaria ; — 

 *Arse smart, Persicaria urens. Polygonum hydropiper. Vulnerary, 

 detersive, and diuretic ; dye wool yellow ; juice acidulous, acrid, 

 sharp. 



59. ATRIPLICES. 



*Spinach, Spinachia oleracea* Leaves emollient, opening, 

 boiled as greens. 



*RooT OF SCARCITY, Mangel wurzel. Beta hyhrida. Root 

 red outside, white inside, very nutritive ; yields sugar ; leaves eaten 

 as spinage. 



*White beet, Beta vulgaris alba. Root yields sugar ; leaves 

 eaten as spinage. 



*Red Beet, Beta vulgaris rubra. Root red, nutritive ; yields 

 sugar. 



*Strawberry spinach, Blitum capitatum. Laxative. 



*CoMMON SEA purslane, Portulaca marina, Atriplex portula- 

 coides. Leaves and shoots pickled used to procure an appetite, 

 warming; also cosmetic. 



*Orache, Atriplex hortensis. Emollient; seeds emetic. — Sea 

 purslane, A. halimits. 



*Sea orache, Atriplex littoralis. Leaves and young shoots 

 pickled, and eaten in the manner of samphire. 



^Narrow-leaved wild orache, Atriplex angustifolia, A. 

 patula. Seeds emetic, sudorific, antidysenteric ; a substitute for 

 ipecacuanha. 



Basella cordifolia;— jB. rwira. Esculent. 



*English mercury, Allgood) Mercurialis, Tota bona, Chmo- 



