ON PLANTS IN RELATION TO ANIMALS. 
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of the horse those researches on clinical urinology which are 
so valuable in human pathology that no one thinks of 
examining a sick man and of arriving at a diagnosis with¬ 
out taking into consideration the condition of the urine. 
These opinions of the committee, of which M. Nocard was 
the representative, should not be taken to apply to army vete¬ 
rinary surgeons of France alone. 
ON PLANTS IN RELATION TO ANIMALS. 
By Professor James Buckman, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c. 
[Continued from p . 237.) 
Having already pointed out the uses of some of the 
more prominent of that division of the Cruciferce , to 
which the name of the old order Siliquosa, or long-podded 
forms, belong, we now proceed to illustrate the economic his¬ 
tory of the Siliquolosa, another Linnaean order depending 
upon the seed vessels, possessing very short pods or little 
pouches. 
The more important genera which will claim our attention 
are as follows: 
1. CoCHLEAREA 
2 . Camelina 
3 . Capsella . 
4. Thlaspi . 
5. Iberis 
6. ISATIS 
. Petals entire, pod inflated, many 
seeded. 
. Tall herb, cauline leaves sessile, 
auricled. 
. Pod dehiscent, many seeded. 
. Pod notched, petals equal, fila¬ 
ments without scales. 
. Pod ovate, petals very unequal, 
filaments without scales. 
. Pod indehiscent, 1-celled, 1- 
seeded. 
1. Cochlearea {Scurvy-grass') is well known for a series 
of herbs which at one time were extensively used as anti¬ 
scorbutics. They are mostly natives of the sea-side, which, 
though partaken of by straying animals, have never yet been 
cultivated for their use, though in old houses some of them 
were grown in the physic gardens for the celebrity they had 
acquired in scurvy, a disease now happily as rare as it was 
one time common. 
The more representative of the genus is the Cochlearea 
