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THALAM1FL0RA2. 
The hedge mustard has been celebrated in medicine as a diur- 
etic, detersive, and expectorant. It has been employed as a 
remedy for asthma and hoarseness, and hence its French name 
of Herbe aux chanteurs. Dr Cullen recommended a syrup pre- 
pared by boiling equal quantities of the juice and sugar or 
honey, as almost a specific for habitual hoarseness. The plant 
when bruised acts as a rubefacient. Goats and sheep are the 
only animals partial to it as food. 
VI. Senebiera, TV art-cress. 
Pouch didymous, without valves or wings : stigma 
sessile : cells 1 -seeded. Cotyledons linear, incumbent, 
(OH). 
Named in honour of Jean Senebier of Geneva, author of 
several works on Vegetable Physiology. 
1. Senebiera pinnatifida. Lesser Wart-cress. 
Leaves pinnatifid, lobes oblong toothed or sub-in- 
cised, silicules compressed didymous emarginate at the 
apex (to the glass) reticulated. 
Coronopus didyrna, Smith et Hooker. — Senebiera pinnatifida, 
De Cand. Sgst. II. 523. 
HAB. Common in Port- Royal and St Andrew’s mountains. 
FT;. Throughout the year. 
This plant is. to be found in almost every part of the globe. 
De Candolle suspects that it must have originally been a native 
of America, and that it lias become disseminated through Eu- 
rope by accident, or from escaping from some garden. Hence 
it is unnoticed by the elder botanists, and even now it is prin- 
cipally found near the sea-shore or in the vicinity of botanic 
gardens. It is very abundant in the mountain districts of our 
own Island. The early leaves which are radical, and much 
larger than those of the stem, afford when young an excellent 
salad, much superior to those of the garden cress, which they 
resemble in taste. 
VI I. Lepidium. Pepper-wort. 
Pouch with the cells one-seeded: valves keeled. 
Petals equal. Cotyledons incumbent (Oil), rarely 
accumbent, ( O = ). — Brown. 
Name, from }.=•-/? a scale; the little pouches resembling a 
scale in form. 
