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SEA-ORACH, GRASS-LEAVED. Atriplex littoralis. This plant is eaten in the same manner as the Chenopodium. SEA-BEET. Beta maritima. This is a common plant on some of our sea-coasts. The leaves are very good boiled, as are also the roots. SILVER-WEED. Potentilla anserina. The roots of this plant taste like parsneps, and are frequently eaten in Scotland either roasted or boiled.
I was informed that my station would be Capiz, a town on the northern shore of Panay, once a rich and aristocratic pueblo, but now a town existing in the flavor of decayed gentility. I was eager to go, and time seemed fairly to drag until the seventh day of September, on which date the boat of the Compañia Maritima would depart for Iloilo, the first stage of our journey.
RHUS Cotinus. VENUS'S SUMACH. The bark of the stalks produces a yellow colour; the bark of the roots produces a red. RHUS coriaria. ELM-LEAVED SUMACH. This plant is possessed of the same qualities as the one above. RUBIA tinctorum. The root produces a red colour. For its culture, see p. 32. RUMEX maritima. DOCK. The whole herb gives out a yellow colour. SALIX pentandra.
It is commonly, when found wild, of a blue colour, but when the seeds are sown in the garden a variety of tints is produced. It is a perennial, but easily raised from seed, which should be sown in the spring. ANTHEMIS maritima. A double-flowering variety of this plant used to be common in the gardens near London, but is now scarce: it is very beautiful, and constantly in bloom during summer.
The account of this latter expedition, which was extant in the time of Pliny the Elder, is unfortunately lost; but, in the poem of R. Festus Avienus, entitled "Ora Maritima," there are copious extracts from it, in which, at least, the sense of the original is preserved. Haec inter undas multam caespitem jacet, Eamque late gens Hibernorum colit."
Most amateur gardeners are familiar with the various merits of Coleus, Alternatheras, Achyranthes, "Golden Feather" Pyrethrum, and Centaurea maritima, better known as "Dusty Miller" because of its gray foliage. These are all good, when properly cared for, when used for edging beds and borders.
The variegated variety is well worthy of attention, having a clear silvery variegation, chiefly confined to the leaf margin, but in a less degree to the whole of the foliage, and imparting to it a bright, glaucous tint that is highly ornamental. There is a partially weeping form named P. Mahaleb pendula. P. MARITIMA. Beach or Sand Plum. North America, 1800.
The roots of this are very similar to salsafy, and its culture and use nearly the same. SEA KALE. Crambe maritima. This grows wild on our sea-coasts, particularly in Devonshire, where it has long been gathered and eaten by the inhabitants thereabouts. It was used also to be cultivated; but was in general lost to our gardens, till my late partner, Mr. Curtis, having paid a visit to his friend Dr.
For roundworms he recommended especially a decoction of artemisia maritima, coriander seeds, and decoctions of thyme. Our return to thymol for intestinal parasites is interesting. For the oxyuris he prescribed clysters of ethereal oils. We have not advanced much in our treatment of intestinal worms in the fifteen hundred years since Alexander's time.
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