Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 351
foliolis fubcordat's. .S^. pi. 916. {Ger. em. 257.
/. 5. Moris, hijl. f. 3. t. 4./. 8. BL^ckwell /. 260;
Water-crefles. Jfji^lis.
On the brinks of rivulets frequent, il. S . Vlf.
The leaves have from four to eight pair of fmooth,
fuccLilenc and felTile Pinnae : the flowers are imall
and white, and grow in Pnort fpikes or tufts.
The young leaves are well known to furnifh an'
agreeable fallad, and have always been eftcem'd
as an excellent muifcorbutic : they are faid like-
wife to be beneficial in removing obftruclions of
the vlfcera, and in the jaundice.
SISYMBRIUM filiquis declinatis oblonso-ovatis,
fohis pinnatis, foliolis lanceolatis ferratis. Lin.
fyft. nat. p. 439. ^'p' pi' 916. (Ger. em. 24S. /. 6.
Moris, hijl.f. 3. /. 6./. 17. Ph. herb. t. ^6.f. 5)
Water-Rocket. Anglis,
By water-fides and in waile places, but not com-
mon. Dr. Parfons cT bibbald. %. VII. VIII.
The ftalk reclines at the bale, but is ered after-
wards, fmooth, ftriated and branched : the leaves
have from three to fix pair of Pinna', which are
lanceolate, fharply indented, generally alternate,
and fefille upon a wide rib : the flowers are fmall
and yellow : the calyx yellowiih : the filiqu^e
ftand on horizontal peduncles, and are curv'd a
little upwards, fo as 10 ftand almofl: parallel to
the branches,
S. fil
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