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yellow. linols purgative. Berrij csteenied poisonous, but lias 

 been used for inflammation.s in the eyes, 



9. ADOXA. 



1. A. moschateUina {tuherous Moscliatell), Light/. /;. 209. 

 E.B.t.A'VA. 



Hab. Woods and shady places in a light soil, but not common. In 



. the hermitage,iDr. Parsons. Near the top of Craig-chailliach, Bread- 

 idbane, -Dr. Stuart. Frequent about Glasg. in woods and about 

 the roots of hedges, Uopk. Banks of the Kelvin, Glasg., Mr. Mur- 

 ray. Ft. Apr. May. 7/. 



Root creeping, with tooth-like scales. Stem about a span high. 

 Leaves 2 or 3, radical, on very long footstalks, triternate, lobed and 

 cut, 2 cauline ones small and simply ternate. Peduncle single, ter- 

 minal, with a head of 4 verticillate green flowers, and a rifth ter- 

 minal one. Stani. united in pairs, or they may be considered as 

 4- or 5-forked stam., each ramification terminated by a single cell 

 of an anther, and all springing from a fleshy ring that surrounds 

 tiie germen. The Jlowers have an evident musky smell in the even- 

 ing or early in the morning, while the dew is on them : the lateral 

 liuwers have mostly their parts of fructification in fours, the termi- 

 nal one in lives. 



IX. ENNEANDRIA. 



1. HEXAGYNIA. 



i. BuTOiMUs. Perianth single, corolloid, 6-partite. Caps. 6, 

 inany-secdcd. 



1. HEXAGYNIA. 



1. BUTOMUS. 



I . B. umlellatiis {/lowering Rush) . Light/. p.2\\. E. B. t. 65 1 . 



IIab. Ditches and ponds, but not common, LigJitf. Duddingston 

 Loch, Mr. J. Macltay. Loch of Clunie, Rev. Mr. M' Ritchie. Ft. 

 July. H. . 



Root white, tuberous. Leaves all radical, 2 — 3 feet long, linear, acu- 

 minate, acutely triquetrous, more or less spirally twisted at the ex- 

 tremity. Scape longer than the leaves, rounded. Umbel of many 

 rose-coloured flowers on footstalks about 4 inches long, with scariose 

 sheathing bracteas at their base ; and tliese liaving a triphyllous 

 membranous involucre beneatli them. Germcns ovate, compi'essed. 

 Style about as long, with a cleft and recurved stigma. Seeds pa- 

 rietid or fixed to the inner surface of the pericarp, extremely smull. 

 — A highly ornamental plant; 



