5to6 bCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



It is extremely acrid and cauftic, and therefore 

 rarely ufed in the prefent pradtice, 



TRIGYNIA. 



POLYGONUM. Gen. pi 495. 

 Cal. o. Cor. 5-partita, calycina, Sem. i, angii- 

 latum, 

 ^' Biftortse fpica tinica. 

 h'ljlojta I. POLYGONUM caule fimpliciffimo monoftachyo, 

 foliis ovatis in petiolum decurrentibus. Sp. pi. 

 516. [Oed. Dan, t. 421. Miller, icon. 66. Ger. 

 Em. 399. /. 1.) 

 The greater Biftort, or Snal^eweed. Anglis. 

 In moid meadows, but not common. I obferv'd 



it about Inverary. '^. VII. 

 The root has an acid auftere tafte, and is a power- 

 ful aftringent : the leaves are by fome boil'd in 

 the Spring, and eaten as greens. 



viviparum POLYGONUM caule fimpliciffimo moncftachyo, . 

 2. foliis lanceolatis. Sp. -pi. 516. {Oed. Dan. t. 13. 



opt. Ger. Em. 399./. 2- PIukeneL t. ^S^-f- 2.) 

 Small Biftort, or Snakeweed. Anglis. " \ 



In dry ftony paftures by the fides of mountains \ 

 not unfrcquent, as about the pafs of liillicranky^ 

 near Blai?'^ on th6 fides of the mountains about 

 Loch Rannoch in Perthjhire., Loch-Urn in In'ver- 

 7iefs-Jhire., &c. and on Ben-huardal, in Strath., in 

 theifleof Skye. %. VI. 

 The lowermoft flowers of the fpike generally put 



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