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genus begin to flower long before they have attained their full size, the 
flowers at first forming a corymbus, but this after a while shoots out and 
assumes the form of a long spike-like bunch. The stem also, in its earlier 
stages simple, in time becomes branched, the first branches issuing from its 
upper part. (It varies in a barren chalky soil, with all the leaves, entire, 
and the stem simple, as represented in the last figure of Petiver above 
cited. E.) 
Common Shepherd’s-Furse. (Irish: Gassan Cailleagh: Welsh: IJys 
iryfal; Pwrs y"bugdil. Gaelic: Sporran-buachaill. E.) Among rub«< 
bish, road sides, walls, corn-fields, and gravel walks. 
A. March—Sept.* 
CQCHLEA'RIA.f Pouch notched, but slightly turgid,rugged, 
bivalve, many-seeded : valves tumid. 
C. officina'lis. Root-leaves heart-circular: stem-leaves oblong, a 
little indented : pouch globular. 
(Hook. FI. Lond. 148— E. Bot. 551. E.)— Kniph. 3— Ludw. 133— FI. Dan. 
135— Blackw. 227— Woodv. 29— Fet. 49. 1— J. B. ii. 942— Dod. 594. 1—< 
Lob. Obs. 156. 4, and Ic. i. 293. 2 —Ger. Em. 401. 1— Park. 283. 2 —H. 
Ox. iii. 20. 1— Ger. 324. 1. 
Stem angular, (from two or three inches to a foot high. E.) Boot-leaves 
on long leaf-stalks, heart-kidney-shaped, fleshy, (commonly half an inch to 
an inch over, but we have a specimen from Cornwall measuring full two 
inches. E.) Stem-leaves sessile, sometimes halberd-shaped, the lower 
occasionally on short broad leaf-stalks. Petals fleshy, clear white. Claws 
greenish. Pouch either not notched at the end, or scarcely sensibly so, 
sometimes pointed by the style, smooth. Partition double. Seeds rough. 
(Smith remarks that this species may be distinguished from either C. an- 
glica or C. danica, by its pouch , which is globular, very slightly rugose, 
and but indistinctly veined. 
Yar. 2. Scarcely differs from the preceding, except in its diminutive size, 
and little elongated style. Dr. Withering, after much observation, 
concluded it to be only a mountainous variety of C. officinalis. It is 
C. Groenlandica of With Ed. 4. but not of Linnaeus, as clearly ascertained 
by Smith. 
Common on the mountains about Llanberris, Carnarvonshire. Hudson. 
On wet ground near Whey Sike House, Teesdale : and near Coal Cleugh, 
Northumberland. Winch Guide. E.) 
Common Scurvy-grass. (Irish: Billar traihe. Welsh: Morlwyau med- 
dygawl. Gaelic: Biolaire. E.) Sea shores, common, also on inland 
mountains in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Scotland, and Wales. (Among the 
cliffs of Cheddar, Somersetshire. E.) A. April—May.J 
* (The young radical leaves are brought to market, in Philadelphia, and sold for greens 
in the spring of the year. Barton. Small birds feed on the seeds. This plant sometimes 
exhibits a very diseased appearance, when infested with oval white blotches of the small 
parasitic fungus Uredo Thlaspi; With. vol. 4. p. 373 : also represented as TJ. Candida , 
in Grev. Scot. Crypt. 251, and said to affect others of the Cnidferce , itself forming a 
nidus for a yet more minute parasite, Botrytis parasitica , Pers. and thus, by microscopic 
art, may the wonders of creation be brought to light, in a ratio almost ad infinitum. E.) 
T (From cochleare, a spoon; its root leaves assuming the form of a spoon or 
shell. E.) 
t Notwithstanding this is a native of the sea coast, it is cultivated in gardens without 
any sensible alteration of its properties, It possesses a considerable degree of acrimony, 
