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~ inverted oval figure, and have very {mall bottoms within the cup. “The atts is compofed of four hol- 
low, oval, little leaves, which ftand gaping, and-fall with the flower. The feed-veflel is fhort, fome- 
what compreffed, blunt at the end, and terminated by a {mall point: the feeds ate few A, {mall, 
and the leaves are very large and firm. ¢ Id, 
Linnaeus places ‘this among the tetradynamia filiculofa the flower ‘having four longer and two 
fhorter threads,’ and the feed+veffel'being a fingle regularfilicule. He joins it with the feurvyprats 
taking away ‘its original and ‘more ufually: received name. The : fhortnefs of the point at the feed 
veffel is a diftinGtion of the fmaller kind’; yet it'is a very certain and invariable charaéter: but Na- 
ture has placed a much greater and more obvious miark in the form and external appearance ‘of the 
whole plant. 
The lepidium is much more nearly allied to the raphanus rufticanus than the fcurvygrafs is in na® 
ture; but even that is abfolutely diftine. 
There is but one known fpecies of hor/e radifh, 
native of Britain. i 
Common Horfe Radith. 
Raphanus rufticanus vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, and white, of an 
acrid tafte, and of many years continuance in 
the ground. ; Si he 
The leaves are numerous, and extremely large : 
they are long, moderately broad, and! of a frefh 
green. ‘Naturally they are ‘entire, or but fightly 
and irregularly dented at-the edges; but fome- | 
times they-are cut very ‘deep into numerous pin- - 
nated fegments. : 
The: ftalk.is round, upright, firm; and- two 
feet and a half high. 
The leaves on this are oblong, narrow, and 
indented, and are of a frefher green than thofe 
from the root. : : 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and 
are fmall and white. ‘ 
The feed-veffel is alfo {mall and fhort, and the 
feeds are few and fmall. 
Itis common wild in the north of England, and 
we fee itin uncultivated grounds, frequently about 
GEN. 
‘though it varies oddly in the leaves; and that isa 
London, and elfewhere in the neighbourhood of 
towns, But it has in,thefe places probably rifen 
‘ from fome of the roots thrown out of the houfes 
or gardens. Jn Cumberland, and fome parts 
of Yorkfhire, it’ is-abundant in’ places remote 
from houfes. . It flowers in. June, : 
C. Bauhine calls it Raphanus rufticanus,; and 
moft' others copy that name without altera- 
tion. : : 
It is an excellent medicine in rheumatic cafes; 
and.in-all-obftructions ‘of the’ vifcera. There is 
no way of taking it. fo good: as eating of the 
fcraped root in large quantities at’ table. 
It works powerfully by urine, and brings away 
fmall ftones and gravel; at the fame time it 
ftrengthens the ftomach, and affifts digeftion. Ic 
ftands greatly recommended alfo againft {corbutic . 
complaints. 
Two {poonfuls of the juice will operate as a 
vomit; but it does this roughly and difagree- 
ably. 
Use S VI. 
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Dang Poop 
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HE flower is compofed of four: little, oval petals, vahiolt are difpofed regularly in a crofs di» 
rection; and. have:very narrow bottoms : the cup is formed: of ‘four little, pointed, gaping 
leaves, which fall when the flower decays: the feed-vefiel is fhort, broad, and thick, ‘with a very 
flight. depreffion at the end, and a very flender point annexed to it, which has been the ftyle of: the 
flower’: the feeds are numerous, fmall,:and brown. » i aN J 
Linnzus places this among the ¢etradynamia filiculofa ; the, flower having four longer and two 
fhorter threads, and the feed-veffel being a regular filicule. ; sigs 23 ; 
He-takes away the eftablifhed name of ‘one plant of this genus, not allowing it’to belong to it, 
but accounting it a fpecies of -fcurvygrafs'; this is the narrow-leaved kind’: and: the’ other’ he joins 
with nafturtium, callingithem by that name, ‘This tends to create confufion. “There is enough dif- 
tinGtion both from ‘the:fcurvygrafs and the horfe radib'in the general form of the’ plants; but, ‘befide 
that, we have'fhewn there are diftinétions in thofe parts in particular upon which the’ characters of 
the genera are eftablifhed. tl) 
Thefe. ate more flight in general’in this whole clafs than in tof’ others: but, if they are properly 
attended to,‘ they are fuflicient. : : 
DLV Sik: ONG Tai BRITISH:SPECIES. 
fends’ up tufts “OF leaves, and young’ fhoots of 
ftalks, in feveral places. é : 
‘Phe firft leaves are very large, and of a deép 
The root is flender, and runs obliquely under | green: they ftand on long, flender footftalks', and 
the furface : it is furnifhed with many fibres, and | they are oblong, broad, and ferrated at the 
N° 26. Mux: x edges ; 
sion) Common’ Dittander. 
” Lepidium oulgare latifolinm. 
