40 CRDCiFER.E. [CocliUaria . 



at thai season not inconspicuous blossoms, is the little vernal Whitlow-grass, 

 flowering even before Cardamine hirsuta and Barbarea prEBCox, species that anti- 

 cipate most others of the order to which they belong in the period of inflorescence. 



XIV. CoCHLEAEiA, Linn. Scurvy-grass. 



" Pouch oval or globose, many-seeclecl ; the valves turgid, with 

 a prominent nerve in the middle. Filaments simple. Hypogy-^ 

 nous glands 4. Seeds not margined, tuberculate. Calyx patent." 

 —Br. Fl. 



1. G. officinalis, L. Common Scurvy-grass. " Pouch globose, 

 radical leaves petiolate cordato-reniform entire or sinuated, cau- 

 line ones sessile oblong sinuated." — Br. Fl. p. 29. E. B. t. 551. 



On muddy sea-shores, and about the mouths of tide-rivers. Fl. April — June. 

 or 11. 



W.Med. — Two or three plants found on the bank, with C. danica, by the 

 entrance-gate into Watcombe bay on High down, Freshwater gate, a little above 

 Plumbley's hotel. 



2. C. grcenlandica, L. Greenland Scurvy-grass. " Pouch glo- 

 bose, leaves kidney-shaped (or cordate) fleshy entire, uppermost 

 oblong."— 5r. Fl. p. 29. E. B. t. 2403. C. officinalis, 0. Hook. 



Sea-shores. Fl. June, July. ©. 



W. Med. — Edges of Freshwater down, Rev. G. E. Smith. 



3. C. anglica, L. English Scurvy-grass. " Pouch elliptical 

 (large) veiny, radical leaves petiolate ovate or oblong entire mostly 

 acute or tapering at the base sometimes subcordate, cauline leaves 

 mostly sessile oblong sinuated or with a few coarse teeth." — Br. 

 Fl. p. 29. E. B. t. 552. 



In similar situations with C. officinalis, i^/. April, May. 0. 



E. Med. — Along the embankment in Brading harbour, frequent. 



W. ilfsiZ.— Yarmouth, Mr. Snooke. 



A perfectly smooth herb like the last. Root whitish, tapering. Stems nume- 

 rous, 3 or 4 inches to about a foot or upwards in height, the outer often spread- 

 ing, ascending or decumbent at the base, the central ones erect and like the leaves 

 often purple, strongly angular and furrowed. Radical leaves on long footstalks, 

 soon decaying, either ovate, cordate at the base and quite entire as in E. B., or 

 as in the specimens before me attenuated into the petiole, and for the most part 

 distinctly waved, sinuate or bluntly toothed ; stem-leaves oblong, sessile, or in the 

 lowermost shortly petiolate, sinuato-dentate, those at and towards the summit 

 shorter, smaller, broader and somewhat amplexicaul. 



4. C. danica, L. Danish Sciirvy- grass. " Pouch ovato- ellipti- 

 cal veiny, leaves all petiolate nearly deltoid." — Br. Fl. p. 29. E. 

 B. t. 696. 



On muddy and stony sea-shores, also on cliff's and banks by the sea, very rare. 

 ii'Z. April — June. i^r. May, June. 0. 



W. Med. — Abundant for many yards on an earthen fence by the second stile 

 on the ascent of Freshwater down. Near the Needles. High Down, and Weston 

 down by Freshwater, Mr. Dawson Turner, B. T. W., and the Rev. G. E. Smith 

 in litt. 



Herb pale green, brittle and succulent, quite glabrous. Root whitish, slender, 

 tapering, more or less branched and fibrous. Stems numerous, prostrate and 

 spreading in all directions, when growing amongst other plants somewhat erect or 



