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

356 TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA.
drangular : the fuiqu^ are fhort, ered, round, 01
flighdy quadrangular: the feeds arc oval, finely!
dotted, and reticulated.
The young leaves in the fpring ?re fometimes eaten^
in fallads, but to moil people they have a bitter'
unpleafant tafte.
(illiaria 3. ERYSIMUM foliis cordatis. Sp. pi. 922. (Ger.
em, 794. Moris, hiji. f. 3. /. 10 /. 6. Blackwell t.
372)
Jack-by-the-hedge, or Sauce-alone. Anglis.
In hedges and wafte places ; under S^lijh'iiry craigs,
ace. Dr. Varfons. li . V. VI.
The ftalks are a yard high; the branches nearly;
erefl ; the leaves thin, flaccid, and ferrated,
fmelling like garlick when bruifcd : the flowers
are white : i\\e filiqu^ hardly quadrangular, but
round, with two lateral elevated lines, the mid-
dle ones fcarcely prominent : the membrane
which runs between the valves is fpongy, and the
feeds, which are cylindrical and furrow'd, are
imbedded in it. '
The leaves were formerly in ufe for fcafoning fa-
voury diflies, but are at prefent little regarded,
the different kinds of Allium being efteemed
much more preferable.
An outward application of them is recommended
by Boerhave^ and others, in gangreens and can-
cerous ulcers. ■
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