466 Mr. Cutler's Account of indigenous Vegetables 



MIMULUS. Linn. Gen. Plant. 701. 

 MAIDENWORT. Stems angular; branched. Leaves lanceo- 

 late ; slightly serrated ; opposite ; half embracing the stalk. 

 Blossoms solitary ; on long flower-stalks rising from the axillce 

 of the leaves ; blue. By fences in moist land. August. 



TETRADYNAMIA. 



SILICULOS^. 

 MYAGRUM. Linn. Gen. Plant. 713. 

 Myagrum siliculis ovatis pedunculatis polyspermis. Syst. Nat. 

 CAMLINE. Blossoms yellow. In fields amongst flax. June. 



THLASPI. Linn. Gen. Plant. 719. 



Thlaspi siliculis obcordatis, foliis radicalibus pinnatifidis. Syst. 

 Nat. 



MII^HRIDATE. Shepherd's Purse. Shepherd's Pouch. Blos- 

 soms white. In corn fields, and about barns. April — June. 



COCHLEARIA. Linn. Gen. Plant. 720. 



Cochlearia foliis radicalibus subrotundis, caulinis oblongis, sub 

 sinuatis. Syst. Nat. 



SCURVY- GRASS. Blossoms white. On high land. Not com- 

 mon in a wild state, but is frequently cultivated in gardens. 

 May — June. 



It is acrimonious ; and the acrimony is said to reside in a very 

 subtile essential oil. It is frequently eaten by country people as 

 a sallad. Writers on sea-voyages give high encomiums on the 

 Scurvygrass for its antiscorbutic virtues. Dr. Withering says, 

 it is a powerful remedy in the pituitous asthma, and in what 

 Sydenham calls the scorbutic rheumatism. A distilled water 

 and a conserve is prepared from the leaves. The juice is pre- 

 scribed along with that of oranges, by the name of antiscor- 

 butic juices. Cochlearia 



