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Linneus places this among the fetradynamia Ag the flower having four longer and tivg 
thor e feed- veffel bei r filicule. 
fhorter threads, and the feed- veffel being a proper f ; oh 
He Gtvbacices into the fame genus the horfe-radifh, and fome others, which do not agree with the 
characters himfelf has eftablifhed for afcertaining the diftinction, we have therefore removed thefe to 
their proper places. 
Dl VAL Sil OeN. «1 
1. Common Scurvygrafs. 
Cochlearia foliis fubrotundis. 
‘The root is long, flender, white, and furnifhed 
with feveral little fibres. “ 
The firft leaves rife in a large tuft, and have 
long and thick footftalks : they are fhort, broad, 
and of a figure approaching to round, but fome- 
what indented at the bafe, and finuated varioufly 
and irregularly at the edges. 
The colour of thefe leaves is a freth, bright 
green; and they are of a very tender, juicy fub- 
ftance. . 
The ftalks are numerous, round, of a pale 
green, ten inches high, and not very firm: they 
are but little branched, and have only a few 
leaves. 
Thefe are oblong, narrow, and altogether un- 
like thofe from the root : they ftand in pairs, one, 
two, or three pair on each ftalk, and-are of a 
faint green. & 
The flowers grow at the tops of the branches 
in little tufts, and they are {mall and white. 
The feed-veffels are fmall, and the feeds are 
numerous and minute. j 
It is common on our fea-coafts, and flowers in 
May. , 
C. Bauhine calls it Cochlearia folio Subrotundo. 
Others, Cochlearia rotundifolia. 
It gets a place in gardens from its ufe and vir- 
tues, and has thence alfo obtained the name of 
Sarden frurvygrafs, and cochlearia hortenfis. Some 
alfo call it Dutch feurvygra/s. 
It is not only found upon the fea-coafts, but in 
many parts of England on hills near fprings. 
In thefe places the leaves are fmaller, and more 
perfectly round; and under this form it has been 
defcribed as a diftin& fpecies ; but the feeds being 
fown ina garden, produce the common kind. 
The cochlearia rotundifolia of Merret, named in 
the laft edition of Ray’s fynopfis, and the 
cochlearia rotundifolia parva Batava of Lobel, are 
this variety of the common Scurvygrafs, and not 
any diftinct {pecies. 
2. Jagged-leaved Scurvygrafs, 
Cochlearia folio finuato. 
The root is fmall, longith, and furnifhed with 
innumerable fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a little clufter, and have 
very fhort footftalks: they are of an oblong fi- 
gure, broadeft toward the bafe, fharp at the 
point, and deeply and irregularly 
the edges. 
Their fubftance is flefhy : they are full of juice, 
and their colour is an obfcure green, 
The ftalks are humerous, thick 
pale green, and ten inches high, 
cut in along 
; Juicy, of a 
BRI T.1S.H-.S.P ECL E-S; 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe at the root 
in their general form; but they have no foot- 
ftalks, and they are more flightly notched at the 
edges. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 
in little cluffers, and they are fmall and white, 
The feed -veffel is fhort and tender : the feeds 
are numerous and fmall. 
Tt is common in our falt-marfhes, and on the 
fea-fhores, where the bottom is mud, 
in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cochlearia folio Sinuato; and 
moft other writers take the fame name : but fome 
call it Cochlearia vulgaris, and fome Cochlearia 
Britannica. 
It has commonly in our markets the name of 
fea feurvygrafs, by way of diftin@ion from the 
other called, as we have faid, garden Senrvyzrafs ; 
and it has alfo the name of Englifh feuraygrafi, by 
way of diftinction, from that other kind called 
Dutch: but thefe are very ill chofen and unex- 
prefiive terms. Names taken from the fhape of 
the leaves, which is the true mark of their diffe- 
rence, would be much more proper, 
Tt flowers 
3. Little fhort-leaved Scury grafs, 
Cochlearia minor foliis brevibus. 
The root is a tuft of long, flender fibres, cons 
nected to alittle head. j 
The firft leaves are fupported on long flethy 
footftalks ; and they are fmall, and of a roundifh 
figure, but irregularly finuated at the edges, and 
terminated by a fhort point, 
The ftalks are very numerous, weak, of a pale 
green, fcarce at all branched, and five inches high, 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
root: they are broad; fhort, roundifh, and fi- 
nuated on the edges, 
The flowers are larger than in the others, and 
of a milky white. 
The feed-veffels are fhort, and the feeds are nu. 
merous and fmall. _ 
It is found on the fea-coaft of Wales, and 
flowers in April. 
Ray calls it Cochlearia minor 
Te. 
may be called Welch JScurvygra/s. 
rotundifolia. 
4. Ivy-leaved Scurvyerafs, 
Cochlearia foliis angulofis parvis, 
The root is flender, long, white, and furnithed 
with many fibres, San 
The firft leaves rife in a very fmall but thick 
tuft: they are fupported on fhort and flender 
footftalks, and are divided into ‘three parts, in 
the manner of many of the leaves of ivy : they 
are of a thick, flefhy fubflance, and of a brownifh 
colour ufually, though fometimes of a frefh and 
lively green, 
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