TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA, 5^9 



branched : the leaves are feflile, oval-lanceohite, 

 and fparingly dented on the edges: the flowers 

 are white, and grow in a cluiler at the top of the 

 italk : the petals are (lightly emarginated •, the 

 pods Hand on fhort hairy peduncles, and are 

 twilled in a contrary diredion to the fun's diur- 

 nal motion. 



LEPIDIUM. G^/^. /;/. 801. 



Silicula emarginata, cordata, polyfperma. valvulis 



carinatis, contraries. 



iatifoUumi. LEPIDIUM foliis ovato-lanceolatis integris ferra- 



tis. 5p. pL 899. {Ger, em. 241. /. 2. Moris, htft, 



f. 3. /. 21./. i.medii 07'dinis adjinijlram. Fet.herh 



t. 48./. 10. cum characfere) 



Dittander or Pepperwort. Anglis, 



Upon the fea.coall, as about the caflle of Weems^ 

 in Fife/hire, ^c. ^. VIL 



The ilalk is a yard high or more/er,e6l and branch- 

 ed : the leaves, are firm, fmooth, and finely fer- 

 rated, growing alternately without order, upon 

 the fcalk and branches : the flowers are exceed- 

 ingly fmall for the flze of the plant, and white, 

 very numerous, and grow in cluflered panicles : 

 the Silicula or feed-veflTel is heart-fhap'd, the Style 

 ^ fhort, the Stigma globular. 



The young leaves are eaten fometimes in fallads ; 

 they have a pungent acrid t^fte, arid are reckoned 

 antifcorhutic, 



Z 2 LEPIDIUM 



