" This plant has or late years been generally ufed as a ^ndVeing accounted an excellent 
preferred to all other forts of falads, for its agreeable' ““ . h , obtained a preference 
“ remedy for the fcurvy and to cleanfe.the bloods alfo a f rood d, 8 ^ ' ga(hered jn the ditches 
to molt other forts for winter and fpring ufe with many P P , , , _„:„j if mav 
. i n i- T /ini-lrtn rn fnnnlv the mancets 
' to moll other forts for wmler and fpnng ufe « ” h ” J £ P but whoever has a mind to cultivate it may 
■ and other Handing waters near London to fu#y the m k I ^ h early jn the f pnng , being 
“ eafily do it, by taking feme of the plants fro >a the P» c « m Jf and then ]et t he water in on 
they w!b foon flounfli and fpread over a large compafs of 
“ careful to preferve their roots as entire as poffifctle an p*M 1 d f prea( J over a large compafs of 
- them by degrees ; when they have taken ^2 ^10^710 lied which will fall into the water, and 
V water : they Ihould not be cut the firft feafon, b water is fo deep that it will not be eafy to plant 
■■ furnilh a fufBcient fupply of plants afterwards ; but wh P ripening, and throw 
“ them 1 the beft method will be, to get a quantity of the plants s jull as ^thetr leeos a P B. u [Q the 
■' them on the furface of the water, where tJtey are defigned to Miner's bard. DiEl. 
•• bottom, where they will take root and produce a fuffictency of thele plants. Miller 
missmmSeMM 
^th^^r? r o“^Staof» tLa^. Both the infpiffated juice and the watery 
ru r Y a t: 
and very pungent effential oil is obtained. 
This herb is one of the milder acrid aperient antifcorbutics, of the fame general virtues with the Cochlearia, 
but contiderably left pungent, and, in a great meafure, free from the peculiar flavour which accompanies 
that plant. Hofiman has a great opinion of it, and recommends it as of Angular efficacy for ftrengthenmg 
the vtfeera, opening obltaaions of the glands, promoting the fluid fecrettons, and purifying he body ot 
humours ■ for thefe purpofes, the herb may be ufed as a dietetic article, or the expreffed juice, taken in doles 
of from one to foqr ounces twice or thrice a day. Lewis’s Materia Medica. 
