364 TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 



CRAMBE. Gen. pL 825. 

 Filament a 4 longiora apicebifurca, altero antherifero. 

 Bacca ficca, globofa, decidua- 

 maritimai. CRAMBE foliis cauleq ; glabrls. Sp, pL 937. 



{Ger, em. 315./. 15. Moris, hifi. f. 3. t. 2. /. 16. 



Pet. herb. t. 4H./. 12. Oed. Dan. t. 316. ^j^/. cum. 



chara5iere.) 

 Sea Colewort. Anglis. 

 On the Tea coaft in fandy or floney foils, but not 



common. On the Ihore by Fafi-Cafile^ in Ber- 



wick/hire. Dr. Parfons. %. VI. 

 The leaves are bluntly oval, glaucous, fucculent, 



plaited, and deeply finuated on the edges : the 



flem, is two feet high, and branched towards the 



top : the flowers are white, and grow in fliort 



fpikes or clufters : the fruit is a roundifh, pulp- 



lefs, green berry, with one cell, containing a 



fingle feed. 

 The young leaves cover'd up with fand and blanch'd 



while growing, are boiled and eaten as a great 



delicacy. 



CLASS IS 



