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immediately from the top of the root, shining. From the axils 

 of these leaves springs a solitary, rather large, drooping goiter, 

 upon a short footstalk, of a greenish brown colour, and coria- 

 ceous substance ; its segments incurved. FiZawimfs produced beyond 

 the anthers, 



2. LYTHRUM. 



1. L. Salicaria {purple- spiked Loosestrife), leaves opposite 

 cordato-lanceolate, flowers spiked with 12 stam. Licr/itJ. 

 p. 247. E.B.t.lOiU. 



Hab. Banks of ditches and rivers in marshy places, frequent. Fl. 

 July. H . 



Two to three feet high, erect. Stem 4-sided. Spikes very long, of 

 beautiful purple flowers, placed in whorls. Cal. tubular, striated, 

 with alternate large and small teeth : between the larger ones in 

 the inner margin, are inserted the oblongo-cuneiform petals. Stam. 

 within the tube of the Cal., 6 short and 6 long ones. 



2. DIGYNIA. 



3. AGRIMONIA. 



1. A. Eupaioria (/^^riwon?/), cauline leaves interruptedly pin- 

 nate, terminal leaflet on a footstalk, fruit hispid. Lightf. 

 p. 247. E.B.t.l335. 



Hab. Borders of fields, and waste places by road-sides. Fl. July. 71 . 



Two feet high. Leaflets deeply serrated, intermediate smaller ones 

 from 3 — 5 -cleft. Flowers yellow, on along branched spike. — Belongs 

 naturally to the Order RosacecB (Icosandria) . 



3. TRIGYNIA. 



4. RESEDA. 



1. R. Luleola {Dyer's IVeed), leaves lanceolate entire plane, 

 cal. 4-cleft. Lightf. p. 248. E. B. t. 320. 



Hab. Waste places near villages, as about Dysart, Burntisland and 

 Laswade, Lightf. Frequent about Glasgow, Hopk. Inverness, 

 Mr. G. Anderson. Fl. July. ©. 



Two to three feet high, branched. Spikes long, of numerous yellow- 

 ish fowers. Stam. numerous, hanging down. Nectary large, 

 green, crenate on the upper side of the flower. Divisions of the 

 petals linear. Caps, open at the top, even before it is ripe. — Used 

 in dyeing woollen stuffs of a yellow colour. 



2. R. Lutea {wild Mignonette), leaves pinnated upper ones 

 with three segments, cal. 6-cieft. E. B. ^.321. 



Hab. Hills between Pettycur and Burntisland, Mr. P. Nelll. Near 

 Kirkcaldy, Mr. Chalmers. Between Arbroath and Montrose, .G. 

 Don. Near Raith, in the Carse of Gowrie, and to the S. W. of 

 Newburgh, Fifeshire, D. Don. Road-side between Linlithgow and 

 Falkirk, Maugh. Fl. Julv, Aug. Q} Sm. 



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