DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 235 



Upon hoiifes and walls. Sihbald. Dr. Varfons ob- 

 ferv'd it in a village going from Edinburgh to 

 ■Lord March's. %.VU, 



The leaves are femicylindrical, glaucous, fucculent 

 and acuminated : in liol.and Ibmetimes eaten in 

 fallads. 



S. foliis fubovatis cdnato-feflilibus gibbis erccliuf- 

 culis alternis, cyma trifida. ^p^pl. 619. (Ger. ejn. 

 517. Moris, hijt. f. \l. t. 6. f. 12. Pet. herb. /. 

 42./. 9; 

 Pepper-Stonecrop, Wall Pepper. Anglis. 

 Upon rocks and barren floney places, but not very 

 common. I obferv'd it in the illand of Lamlajh^ 

 on the fouth-eaft oi Arran. iL VI. 

 The flowers are yellow, and the leaves clofely im- 

 bricated, fo as to make the flalks appear cylin- 

 drical. It is acrid, and biting to the tafle. 

 Tbejuice of it externally is recommended in ulce- 

 rous fores and cancers : taken internally it ope- 

 rates ftrongly as an emetic and cathartic. An 

 ounce of it, boil'd in twelve ounces of ale, and 

 taken in four dofes, has been found ferviceable 

 in the dropfy. 



-uhens 4. ^' ^"^^"^ ^^^^'^^ fcffilibus gibbis alternis, cyma trifi- 

 da, capfulis rubentibus. (Ged. Dan. t. 82. opt. 

 Raj. Syn. p. 326. /. 12./. 2) 

 Red Stonecrop. Anglis. 



On walls and rocks frequent, as about the old col- 

 lege 



