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COCHLEARIA OFFICINALIS. 
feeding silk worms. The Japanese manufacture paper from the 
inner bark of one species. 
Qualities. Mulberries have but little smell, a sweet sub-acid 
taste, colour the saliva dark violet, and yield rather more than half 
their weight of a fine reddish juice, which contains tartaric acid, 
mucus, and jelly. 
Medical Properties and Uses. The fruit is cooling and 
laxative, and like other sub-acid fruits allays thirst, and proves very 
grateful in most febrile disorders. As a medicine it is seldom 
prescribed but in the form of the officinal preparation, Syrupus 
Mori, which is chiefly used for the purpose of disguising unpalatable 
medicines, and giving a finer colour to others. As an article of 
diet when eaten too freely it is apt to disorder the bowels and 
produce diarrhcea. 
Off". The Fruit. 
Oft'. Pp. Syrupus Mori, L. 
COCHLEARIA OFFICINALIS. 
Common Scurvy Grass* 
Class Tetradynamia.— Or^/er SILICULOSA. 
Nat. Ord. Siliquos^, Linn. Cruciferje, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Silicle emarginate, turgid, rugged ; with gib- 
bous, obtuse valves. 
Spec. Char. Radical Leaves heart-shaped. Stem Leaves 
oblong, somewhat serrated. 
This tribe of plants has derived its generic name from the 
fancied resemblance of the radical leaves to an old-fashioned spoon. 
The Cochlearia Officinalis is found growing naturally on the moun- 
tains of Scotland and the north of England, but more commonly 
about the sea shore of those countries, and of Holland. It is culti- 
* Fig. a. The anthers, b. The gemen. c. A petal. 
