(seq. 143)

[141]
inserted [oblique?]
ye appearance [?]
not worthy not[?]
are nearly ovate, & [?]
covered with very minute
tubercules, wh gives a rough
appearance.

Roots taper, branched — branches
taper, sending off many fibres.

Stems, erect, smooth, scored — 2 or
3 feet high. Radical leaves, on
long flat, concave leaf-stalks, cordate,
crenated — upper leaves, have a
leafy appendage wh surround ye stem,
with winged segments long ye
leaf-stem — about 4 pairs nearly
opposite — segments adhere by a
broad base wh extends along ye edge
of ye stem, terminating in a pretty
large cordate crenate leaf. Very
deep green. Some of ye stalks have lyre-shaped flower. Stem branched toward
ye top, each becomes a long spike
thick set with single flowers on a —
short fruit-stems. Pods very thick
erect. long & slender. Bloss. yellow.

In my Garden — about houses. We
call it Scurvy-Grass. Leaves eat for sallad
Found it in Hamstid [Hampstead] by ye road. The
leave mostly Lyre-shaped, as many
of are in my Garden. It was near
a house — in uncultivated land by a wall
Have not seen it where it appeard evidently
[?]