TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. Sisymbrium. 773 
Grev. Erysimum officinale. Linn. Lightf. With. Curt. FI. Brit. Willd. 
Oed. E.) Under walls and hedges, road sides and among rubbish. 
A. May—June.* 
S. So'phia. Petals smaller than the calyx: leaves doubly pinnatifid, 
(rather hairy. E.) 
(E. Bot. 963. E.)— Ludw. 73 — FI. Dan. 528 — Sheldr.—Kniph. 6 — Dod . 133 
2 — Lob. Obs. 426. 1, and Ic. i. 738. 2 — Ger. Em. 1068 — Bark. 830. 3— 
Pet. 46. 12 — Fuchs. 2 —J. B. ii. 886. 2—Trag. 338— Ger. 910. 1 and 2— 
Lonic. 
(Root spindle-shaped, small. Stem two feet high, upright, branched, leafy. 
Leaves alternate. FI. Brit. E.) Pods an inch long, stiff, crooked, 
upright. Seeds yellow. Blossoms yellow, small. ( Calyx nearly as much 
coloured. E.) 
Flix-weed. (Irish: Find Muire . Welsh: Piblys. E.) Walls and 
amongst rubbish. A. July.f 
S. I'rio. Leaves notched, toothed, without hairiness; as is the stem: 
pods upright. 
Jacq. Austr. 322 — Curt. 311— (E. Bot. 1631. E.)— Park. 834. 4 — H. Ox. 
iii. 3, roiv 3, 3 — Pet. 46. 4 — Col. Ecphr. 265. 
Stem nearly smooth, two feet high. Leaves variously toothed and cut, 
sometimes with winged clefts at the base, generally terminated by a long 
spear-shaped lobe; the upper usually simple, spear-shaped, with one or 
two teeth towards the base. Pods about two inches long, strap-shaped, 
upright, but not pressed to the stem. Fruit-stalks short. Woodw. 
Blossoms small, yellow. (Root spindle-shaped: herb pungent to the 
taste. E.) 
(London Rocket. E.) Broad-leaved Water Cress. Old walls and 
amongst rubbish. (On London Bridge and the walls near it. Mr. 
Woodward. On the walls of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Ray. Under 
Merton Wall; Rose Lane, Oxford. Sibthorp. On walls at Wisbeach, 
Mr. Skrimshire. Road sides near Eton, Bucks. Mr. Gotobed, in Bot. 
Guide. E. A. May—Aug. 
* It is warm and acrid to the taste ; and when cultivated, is used as a spring pot-herb. 
Birds are fond of the seeds. Sheep and goats eat the plant. Cows, horses, and swine refuse 
it. By means of this herb Rondeletius cured a hoarseness, occasioned by loud speaking, iu 
three days. Linn .— 44 Juice of Hedge Mustard is beyond any thing in ulcers of the throat. 
This was found by experience by the Hon. Harry Gray, when all advice of doctors and 
surgeons availed nothing. This from his own mouth.”—M. S. note in a copy of Parkinson 
which formerly belonged to Mr. Saundeirs, surgeon at Stourbridge. (Dr. Cullen attests 
the like good effect, and advises the juice to be mixed with honey and sugar in equal quan¬ 
tities. E.) 
+ The pods retain the seeds all winter, and small birds feed upon them. The plant 
has been prescribed in hysteric and dyse nteric cases ; (whence the old English name ; E.) 
and the seeds are given to destroy worms; (but it Iras long lost the high reputation which 
once obtained for it the designation of 44 Sophia Chirurgorum ,” and affords a striking in¬ 
stance, among many others, of plan ts, whose extravagant commendations by ancient 
writers, both domestic and foreign, in these more enlightened times 
(i Stand like the forfeits in a barber’s shop. 
As much for moi ck as mark.” E.) 
Sheep and cows eat it» Horses and gq als are not fond of it, Swine refuse it. 
