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footftalks ', they are fmooth and glaucous, and 

 their lobes generally trifid : the panicle is branch'd 

 and open, and the flowers nod : the petals are of 

 a pale green, tinged with red : the Stamina are 

 from fifteen to twenty ; the feeds deeply ftriated, 

 in number from two to feven. 



pinum 2' T. caule fimpliciflinio fubnudo, racemofimplici ter- 

 minal!. cp.pL 767. (Oed. Dan. t. 11. opt. Moris, 

 hiji.fs 9. /. 20./. 14. Pet, herb. t. 71. /. 12. {f? 

 fig. noji.) 

 , Alpine Meadow- Rue. An^Iis. 



By the fides of rivulets on the highland mountains 

 frequent, as upon Maol-ghlas^ in Breadalbane, 

 and the mountains about Loch-Rannoch, in Perth- 

 JJoire ; on Baikevail, in the ifland of Rum ; on 

 Ben-na-Grion, tv;o miles above M'Kennon's caftle, 

 in Strath, in the ifle of Skye •, on Ben-na-Scree, 

 above Arnefdale, by the fide of Loch Urn, on the 

 vveftern coaft of Invernefsjhire, and numberlefs 

 other places. It has likewife been obferved in 

 the lowlands, as upon Hart-Fell, near Moffatt, 

 in Annandale, by Mr. Sheffield, Fellow of IVor- 

 cejier college, in Oxford, "V. VI. VII. 



It is an elegant little plant, about a finger's length 

 in height, and truly alpine : the leaves all arife 

 from the root, the ftalk being naked and un- 

 branched : the flowers nod, and have four Pe- 

 tals, twelve Stamna and eight Pifiills. 



RANUNCULUS. 



