Description.
OUr ordinary English Scurvygrass hath ••••any th•••• fat Leavs, more long than broad, and somtimes longer and narrower, somtimes also smooth on the edges, and som∣times a little waved, sometimes plain, smooth, and pointed, somtimes a little hollow in the middle and round pointed, of a sad green, and somtimes brownish colour, every one standing by it self upon a long Footstalk, which is brownish or greenish also: from among which rise smal slender Stalks, bearing a few Leaves thereon like the other, but longer and lesser for the most part: At the tops whereof grow many whitish Flowers, with yellow threds in the middle, standing about a green head which becometh the Seed Vessel, which will be som∣what flat when it is ripe, wherein is contained reddish Seed tasting somwhat hot: The Root is made of many white strings, which stick deeply in the mud, wherein it chiefly deligh∣teth•• yet it will well abide in the more upland and dryer grounds, and tasteth a little brackish or Salt, even there, but not so much as where at hath the Salt water to feed upon.