TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. 34J 



Common officinal Scurvygrafs. /IngUs. 

 Biolaire. Gaulis. 

 Upon rocks on the Tea coafl, and on the highland 



monntains abundantly. $ .V. 

 The radical leaves (land on long footftalks, are 

 heart-fhap'd at the bafe, but rounded and (lightly 

 angular in the circumference, fmooth, fucculenr, 

 and of a deep green color : thofe on the Ifalk 

 are feflile, oval-lanceolate, embracing the ftalk 

 at the bafe, and have now and then a few large 

 angular dents on the edges : the flowers are white 

 and fweet-fcented : the Silicula is oval, gibbous, 

 and terminated with a fhort blunt ftyle : each cell 

 contains four feeds. 

 It has an acrid, bitter and acid tafle, and is highly 

 recommended for the fcurvy. There areinflances 

 of a whole (hip's crew having been cured of that 

 didemper by it ; ' and as it abounds with acid 

 falts, there can be no doubt but that it is a great 

 refifrer of putrefa6lion. The bed way of taking 

 it is raw in a fallad. It is alfo diuretic, and ufe- 

 ful in dropfies. The highlanders efteem it as a 

 good (lomachic. 



dcnica 2. COCHLEAR I A foliis hadato-angulatis, omnibus 



deltoidibus. Lin, mantifs. altera, p. A'l^, Sp, pL 



903. {Gcr. em, 271./. 5. Moris, bifi.f. 3. /. 2r. 



/- 3. Pet. herb, t. 49./. 3. Oed, Ba7i, t, 100. opt.) 



Danifli Scurvygrafs. Anglis. 



. Upon the rocks on the fea coall, intermixed now 



and 



