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Title: Flora scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides
Year: 1777 (1770s)
Authors: Lightfoot, John, 1735-1788
Subjects: Botany Botany
Publisher: London, Printed for B. White
Contributing Library: California Academy of Sciences Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California Academy of Sciences Library

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ed and proflrate:the leaves have four or five pair of oval pinn^^with an odd one at the end: the peduncles areIhorter than the leaves, and arife from their al^^bearing a fhort fpikc of about 12 pale yellowflowers, fucceeded by eredl, turgid and curvedpods, having each two cells, containing eightor ten kidney-fhapd feeds. The leaves have a fweetilh tafle, mixdwith bitter-nefs. An infufion of them has bpfome beenrecommended in fuppreflions of urine, and forthe gravel. arenarius 2 ASTRAGALUS fubcaulefcens procumbens, flo-ribus fubracemofis eredlis, follis tomentofis. 6p.fL 1069. (Raii, Synop. p. 326. /. 12./. 3. cum k-guminibus, bona,) Purple Mountain Milkwort. Anglis. On dry mountainous paftures, but not very com-mon, as upon the hills in the kings park atEdinburgh^ upon the fands of Muffelburgh, up-on the hill of Moncreif^ near Perth^ and in dryground near Tcrk-Cafcade^ at the feac of theDuke of yf/Ms, ^i Blair, &c. it. VII. The ftalk, together with the peduncle, is from three XVTI
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6taA t^/mi/A fw! C :^^/r^a^a/^u^ yyi^lfx/^. i^( /Y.^n:^^^//,^J. J^ 4<V DIADELPHIA DPXANDRIA. 401 three to fix inches high, procumbent at the bafe:the leaves have ten or twelve pairof fmall, hairy,elliptical pinna*^ with an odd one at the end : thepeduncle is longer than the leaves, and bears atthe top a cluiter of about fix purple flowers:the calyces are covered with black hairs: the podsare fhort, oval, inflated, hoary, and white withwoolly hairs. ** Scapo nudoj ahfque caule foliofo, uraknfis 3. A. acaulis, fcapo ere6lo foliis longiorc, legumini-bus fubulatis inflatis villoiis erettis. 6^. pi. 1071.(Haller. opttfc. t, 2. fig. media. Hift.ftirp. Helvet.n. 410. /. \\.fig. infer. adji?tijlram. ^ fig noft.) Silken Aftragalus. Jnglis, Upon Carn-dearg., one of the lov;er heads of Ben-Sguilert^ a high mountain in Gkn-creran., in Up-per-Lorn^ growing together with plenty of tlieDRYAS o5fo-petala., in a light Tandy foil : foundthere by my ingenious friend Mr, Stuart. It has alfo been difco

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