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globular heads of flowers, often occurs in i-noorifh. 

 grounds, flow'ring a month later. {Moris, hijl.f. 

 8. /. 9./. prima ordinis fuperioris.) 



iftcam 15. J. foliis planis, fpica racemofa nut^nte. Sp.pl. 469. 

 (Oed. Ban. t. 270, Fl. Lapp. i. 10. /. 4.) 



Alpine Nodding-Rufh. ' Anglis. 



Upon the fides of the highland mountjins, near 

 their fummits : upon Ben-na-fcree, on the North 

 fide of Loch-Urn., on the Weftern coaft of In- 

 vernefs/Ijire^ &c. n. VII. 



The llalk bends in an arc towards the top, bearificr 

 at the extremity a clofe oblong fpike of flowers : 

 the leaves are fometimes a little hairy at the 

 bafe. It is very nearly related to the preceding 

 fpecies. 



PEPLIS. Gen. pi 446. 

 'Perianth, campanulatum, ore li-iido. Petala 6,^ 

 calyci inferta. Caps. 2-locularis. 

 p^iula I. PEPLIS floribus apetalis. Sp. pi. 474. {Oed. Dan. 

 t. 64. opt. Loejsl. Prujf. /. 20. Miehel gen. t. 18. 

 fig. Juperior. Vail. Paris, t. 15./. 5. Ger.Em. 614. 

 /.ii.) 

 Water Purflane. Anglis. 

 In places that have been overflowed in the Winter 



not uncommon, o. VIII. 

 The ftalks are angular, an:, creep upon the ground: 

 the leaves grow in pairs, fmooth, vs^th long foot- 

 ftalks, but rounded at the extremity : the flov/ers 

 are fefllle in the alee of the leaves, and frequently 

 without any petals, 



TRIGYNIA. 



