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yellow. Roots purgative. Berry esteemed poisonous, but has 

 been used for inflammations in the eyes. 



9. ADOXA. 



1. A. moschatellina (tulerous Moschatell). Lig/ilf. p. 209. 

 E.B. t.453. 



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

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

 albane, Dr. Stuart. Frequent about Glasg. in woods and about 

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

 ray. Fl. Apr. May. I/. 



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 fifth ter- 

 minal one. Stam. 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 

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

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

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

 nal one in fives. 



IX. ENNEANDRIA. 



1. HEXAGYNIA. 



1. BUTOMUS. Perianth single, corolloid, 6-partite. Caps. 6, 

 many-seeded. 



1. HEXAGYNIA. 



1. BUTOMUS. 



1 . B. umlellatus (flowering Rush) . Lightf. p. 2 1 1 . E. B. t. 65 1 . 



HAB. Ditches and ponds, but not common, Lightf. Duddingston 

 Loch, Mr. J. Mackay. Loch of Clunie, Rev. Mr. M' Ritchie. Fl. 

 July. 14. . 



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 these having a triphyllous 

 membranous involucre beneath them. Germens ovate, compressed. 

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

 rietal or fixed to the inner surface of the pericarp, extremely small. 

 A highly ornamental plant, 



