History of Garden Vegetables. 829 
iterranean countries. The leaves are used for seasoning, but 
4 their use with us has been largely superseded by sage, ‘and, 
5 although the seed is yet sold by some of the seedsmen, I 
d imagine that it is but little grown. 
The Clary is called, in France, sauge sclarée, sclarée, toute- 
bonne, orvale ; in Germany, muscateller salbei. 
Craytonia. Claytonia perfoliata Don. 
The leaves of this plant are eaten as salad, or cooked like 
ordinary spinage. It is a native of Cuba, as also of North 
_ America, where the variety exigua Torrey is in popular use in 
i L Giifornia as a potherb.t It was first described in 1794, but 
a in 1829 was not named by Noisette? for French gardens, and 
3 in 1855 is said by De Candolle3 to be occasionally cultivated 
_ 48 avegetable in England. It is now included by Vilmorin 
_ among French vegetables. 
In England it is called winter purslane ; in France, claytone 
_ —Pefoliée, claytone de Cuba, pourpier d'hiver ; in Flanders, door- 
_ 4s; in Holland, ple deities in Spain, verdolaga de Cuba. 
Its synonymy is 
heed perfoliata Don. Pursh, Fl. of N. Am, i. 170. 
2 t ss oliata Don., var. exigua Torr. Brewer & Watson, Bot. 
C. Cubensis, Humb. et Bonpl. Kunth, Syn., iii. 379. 
CorcHorus. Corchorus olitorius L. 
e. plant is valued as a spinage plant in warm countries. It 
S mentioned by Pliny+ among Egyptian potherbs, and Alpinus, 
in 1592, says that no herb is more commonly used among the , 
tian foods. Forskal® also mentions its cultivation in Egypt, 
itiuss In eg the pl l t with in 
gard plant is frequently me 
» but has, in a great measure, ceased to be cultivated, 
Nese Bot. of Cal. 2 Noisette, Man., 1829. 
dolle, Geog. Bot 4 Pliny, lib. xxi. c. 52, c. 106. 
De Plant, Bere, Arona 6 Forskal, Fl. Ægypt.-Arab., xcii. om 
> Ind. Handb. 8 Oliver, Fl. of Trop: Afr., i. 
> FL Manrit., 42. ; 
