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HAB. Among rocks in woody places, not uncommon, especially in the 

 Coryton woods and rocks to the E. of the Kirk of Shots, near Ha- 

 milton, Dr. Parsons. Near Loch Lutnaig, 20 m. W. of Sterling, 

 by the road from Tyndrum, Dr. Stuart. Habbie's How, Pentland 

 hills. In Collington and Abercorn woods, Maugh. Banks of the 

 Clyde at Barncluith, Hoplc. Fall of Fyers and woods byLochness, 

 Mr. Murray, &c. Fl. July. If. . 



Stems 4 5 feet high. Very handsome. Pollen blue. 



** Flowers regular. Stam. erect. Petals deeply notched. 



2. E. hirsutum (great hairy Willow-herb) 9 leaves semiamplexi- 

 caul ovato-lanceolate dentato-serrate hairy, stem very much 

 branched hairy, root creeping, stigma 4 -cleft. Lightf.'p. 197. 

 E. B. t. 838. " 



HAB. Sides of ditches, rivers, and lakes. Near Daldowie, Glasg., Dr. 



Brown. About Edinb., Kinross-shire, and Perthshire, Mr. Arnott. 



Fl. July. ~n . 

 Almost equal in size to the last. Root perennial, creeping. Floweis 



corymbose, large. 



3. E. parvi/iorum (small-flowered hoary Willow -fieri), leaves 

 sessile lanceolate slightly toothed downy on both sides, stem 

 nearly simple very downy, root fibrous, stigma 4 -cleft. E. B. 

 t.795. 



HAB. Marshes and banks of lochs and rivers, frequent, Kopk. Fl. 

 July. I/ . 



The much smaller size of this, in all its parts, scarcely more than 1 

 or 1 \ foot in height, besides the above characters, serves to distin- 

 guish it from the preceding, with which it has been confounded. 



4. E. paluslre (narrow-leaved Marsh Willow-herb), leaves nar- 

 row lanceolate sessile nearly entire and as well as the rounded 

 erect stein subglabrous, stigma undivided. Lightf.p. 199. 

 E. B. t. 346. 



HAB. Bogs and the sides of lakes. Fl. July. TJ. . 

 Stem about a foot high. Flowers small. 



5. E. tetragonum (square-stalked Willow-herb), leaves lanceo- 

 late sessile glabrous denticulate, stem with 4 angles nearly gla- 

 brous, stigma undivided. Lightf. p. 198. E, B. t. 1948. 



HAB. Sides of ditches and watery places, common. Fl. July. I/. 



6. E. montnnum (Iroad smooth-leaved Willow-herb}, leaves 

 ovate-acute shortly petiolate glabrous all toothed, stem round 

 pubescent as well as the fruit, stigma 4-cleft. Lig/itf.p. 198. 

 jB.J%.*.1177. 



HAB. Stony places under hedges, &c. Fl. July. I/ . 

 Six inches to a foot high. Much like this is the E.roseum, which has 

 not yet been detected in Scotland ; but that has an entire stigma. 



7. E. alsinifolium (Chickweed-leaved IViLlow-herk}, leaves 

 ovato- acuminate rather obtuse sessile glabrous lowermost ones 

 entire the rest very slightly toothed, stem round glabrous as 

 well as the fruit, stigma entire. E. B. t. 2000. 



