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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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f. 7. t, 11. fig, fecun-da or dims inferior is,)Mountain Cudweed or Cats-Poot. Anglis,It is frequent ia dry barren grounds both in thehighlands and lowlands, as on the hills aboutArthur*s-Seat at Edinburgh^ he %. VI.The root throws off many trailing fhoots, but theflowering ilalks are ered, three or four inchedhigh, unbranched, and terminated with a clufterof white or red flowers: the radical leaves arefpoon-fliapd, or oval and widefl: at the extremity,and narrow and linear towards the bafe, greenon the upper fide, but white and hoary under-neath ; the ftalk is woolly, and the leaves uponit feflile and lanceolate: the flowers are femaleone plant, and hermaphrodite on another : thecalyx of the female flowers is nearly cylindrical,of the hermaphrodite roundiih : the fcales aredry obtufe and generally white, but in the her-maphrodite flowers are often of a bright red. sil^inum 2. GNAPHAIJUM farmentis procumbentibus, cauleflmpliciflimo, capirulo terminali aphyllo, floribus oblongis ? ,IL
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,M,.^^ ^^^^4 c/^l ^^n/y?/?^Jc^ ///?/? SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 471oblongis ? Sp. pi. 11^9. Haller, hifl. Jiirp. Helvet.n. 149. (Scopol. Flor, Carniol. n. 1048. t, ^y. noftr^plants Jimillima^ fed radix: ahfque jarmentis, Oed.Dan, t, 332. non male reprefentat^ fed Folium innofira planta fiori fuhjicitur. vid^fg. noft.) Alpine Cudweed. Anglis, Upon the tops of the highland mountains not un-frequent, as on Creg-chaillech^ near Finlarigy inBreadalbane^ upon Mal-ghyrdy^ and upon themountains of Glenlyon^ Glenurchy^ and Glenc@y &c.Mr. Stuart, li. VIII. The root throws off feveral fhoots, confiding oftufts of narrow linear leaves one third of an inchlong, the flowering flalk is ercd) three incheshigh, covered with a white cotton fubftance, andfurnifhed with three or four leaves fimilar tothofe of the Ihoots, but rather longer: three orfour flowers grow near the top of the ftalk inthe manner of a fpike, one only from the aUof each leave, fometimes fefTilc, and fometimesfupported on

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