L E P I D I UM latifoliurrt.
Broad-leaved. Pepper-wort. -
T E T R A t> f tr A M I A Siliculofa,
Gen. Char. Pouch notched, with many feed's :
valves keeled, but not margined : partition contrary
to the valves.
Spec. Char. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, undivided#
ferrated.
S yn.. Lepidium latifolium. Linn. Sp. PL 899. HudJ
FL An. 279. With. Bot. Arr. 671. Rail Syn.
3° 4 ‘ • ,
C j ATHERED wild at Heybridge, near Maldon in Eflex#
by Mr. Edward Forfter, jun. in the place mentioned by Ray.
It has been found in other parts of Eflex, always in wet lhady
fituations, and the late Mr. Humphrey difcovered it below
Sheringham cliffs in Norfolk* Otherwife it is by no means
common.
Root perennial, long, branching, and fpreadirig Very far.
Stems ereft, alternately branched, leafy, round, fmooth, pani-
eled at the top with numerous branches of fmall whitilh flowers
in little corymbi, appearing in July. The leaves ate alternate,
acute, of a broad lanceolate figure, lengthened out at the bafe
and the tip, ferrated in the middle, glaucous, efpecially beneath.
Their tafte is biting and difagreeable. An infufion
is faid by Dr. Withering to be emetic.