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Purple Sea Rocket

Name. Called also red buny.

Description. This is a tall plant, with long leaves deeply divided into segments; they have large veins, and are of a deep green. The stalk is thick, tough, and of a pale green. The flowers are purple, and grow in spikes at the tops of the stalks. The whole plant has a disagreeable smell. Place. It is an annual, frequent in salt marshes, and about the sea-coast in Cornwall, and the Isle of Man.

Time. It flowers in July.

Government and virtues. It is a martial plant, of a hot nature, and bitterish taste, opening and attenuating, good to cleanse the lungs of tough, viscid phlegm, and of great service in asthmas, and difficulty of breathing; and are often used as a vomit to clear the stomach, and help the jaundice and dropsy: they likewise provoke urine and the catamenia.