. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 15. COCHLEARIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 647. 1753. Annual or biennial maritime herbs, with simple alternate mostly fleshy leaves, and white or rarely purplish or yellowish racemose flowers. Silicic inflated, oblong or globose. Valves very convex, dehiscent. Stigma -nearly simple, or capitate. Seeds several in each cell of the pod, usually in 2 rows, marginless. Cotyledons mainly
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 15. COCHLEARIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 647. 1753. Annual or biennial maritime herbs, with simple alternate mostly fleshy leaves, and white or rarely purplish or yellowish racemose flowers. Silicic inflated, oblong or globose. Valves very convex, dehiscent. Stigma -nearly simple, or capitate. Seeds several in each cell of the pod, usually in 2 rows, marginless. Cotyledons mainly accumbent. [Greek, spoon, from the shape of the leaves.] .\ genus of about 25 species, all natives of the colder parts of the north temperate zone. Besides the following, about three others are found on the arctic and northern Pacific coasts of Xorth America. Type species: Cochlearia officinalis L. I. Cochlearia officinalis L. Scurvy-grass or weed. Spoonwort. Fig. 2035. Cochlearia officinalis L. Sp. PI. 647. 1753. Cochlearia oblongifolia DC. Syst. Veg. 2: 363. 1821. Diffuse, branching, glabrous, somewhat fleshy, the branches 6'-i2' long. Lower leaves long-petioled, oblong, orbicular or reniform, obtuse, i'-i' long, dentate or entire; upper leaves ovate or oblong, ses- sile or short-petioled; flowers white, 2"-3" broad; petals emarginate, or entire, thrice as long as the calyx; raceme elongating in fruit; pedicels ascend- ing, 3"-4" long in fruit; pods globose or ovoid, 2"- 3" long, smooth or reticulated; valves convex, strongly i-nerved; style i" long. Along seacosts and rivers, Anfieosti to Greenland and arctic America generally. Also in arctic Europe and Asia. Summer. A valued antiscorbutic salad. r?ss, of the arctic coasts of America and Europe, differs ite, all but the uppermost slender-petioled, and ranges
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