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COCHLEARIA Coronopus. SWINES-CRESS. This is an excellent diuretic, safe and yet very powerful. The juice may be taken; and it is good for the jaundice, and against all inward obstructions, and against the scurvy: the leaves may also be eaten as sallet, or dried and given in decoction. Hill's Hebal, p. 105. CONVALLARIA Polygonatum. SOLOMON'S SEAL. The Root.
SOLOMON'S-SEAL. Convallaria Polygonatum. The roots are made into bread, and the young shoots are eaten boiled. SPATLING-POPPY. Cucubalus Behen. Our kitchen-gardens scarcely afford a better-flavoured vegetable than the young tender shoots of this when boiled. They ought to be gathered when they are not above two inches long.
Then there is "Our Lady's comb," with its long, fragile seed-vessels resembling the teeth of a comb, while the cowslip is "Our Lady's bunch of keys." In France, the digitalis supplies her with gloves, and in days gone by the Convallaria polygonatum was the "Lady's seal."
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