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==Scurvy-grass and roads== The advent of modern fast [[road]]s treated with salt in winter for [[ice]] clearance has resulted in the colonisation by scurvy-grass of many inland areas where it formerly did not occur. The scurvy-grass [[seed]]s become trapped on [[automobile|car]] [[wheel]]s, transported often for a considerable distance, and then washed off, to grow in the salt-rich soil at the side of the road where other plants cannot survive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrc.org.uk/WorcRecd/Issue12/useold.htm|title=The Use of Old Records - Some Worked Examples|work=wbrc.org.uk|access-date=14 September 2015}}</ref> <gallery> Image:scurvygras.jpg|''Cochlearia officinalis'' on [[Bear Island (Norway)|Bear Island]], [[Norway]] Image:Cochlearia_officinalis_-_Köhler–s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-186.jpg|19th century illustration of ''Cochlearia officinalis'' File:B1041668 007 Scurvy-grass.tif | "Scurvy-grass" from ''The Book of Health'', 1898, by Henry Munson Lyman </gallery>
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