j^o HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA; 



The radical leaves have a deep finus in their edges 

 on each fide, and are befides a little crifp'd : the 

 ftalk ones are lanceolate : the branches are an- 

 gular and divaricated : the flowers grow in dif- 

 tant fefTile whirls : the valves are dentated^ 

 with an obtufe apex -, the exterior one has a large 

 wart or grain, the other fcarcely any. 



** Hermaphroditic valvulis granulo dejlitutis^f. nudis, 



di^iiaticus 6 R. floribus hermaphroditis, valvulis integerrimis 



nudisj foliis cordatis glabris acutis. Syjl. Nat. 



^55' Sp' P^- 479- {^^^- herb. t. i. f. i. Ger, Em, 



389./. I.) 



Great Water Dock, Anzlis, 



-In ditches and by river-fides. Sihhald. %. VH. 



This may be readily known from the other Ipecies 

 by the fize of the leaves, which are a foot and a 

 half long, or more, of a lanceolate elliptic form, 

 cordated at tlie bafe^ 



The root in decodlion or effenee is efteem'd an ex- 

 cellent antifcorbutic, and pulveriz'd is reckon'd 

 a good dentifrice; 



di^ynus 7. RUiMEX floribus hermaphroditis digynis. Sp. pi. 

 pL 480. (Oed. Dan. t, 14. opt. Moris, hifi.f. 5. ti 

 0^6. f. penultim. Pluk.t. is^- f- 2- '^^t. herb. t. 3. 



/.4.) 



Round-leav'd Mountain Sorrel. Anglis. 



Sealbhag-nam-tiadh. Gaulis. 



Upon rocks by the fides of rivulets, v/hich run 

 down from the liighland mountains, very fre- 

 quent : I obfcrv'd it iikewife in the iflands of 

 Rum and i^he ia the fame kind of places. 



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