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mortar, and applied in one or more limpet iliells 

 to the part where the bliilers arc to be raifed. 

 This is the pradlice in the ifle of Skye, and other 

 places upon the coaft. 



RANUNCULUS foliis linearibus, caule repente. 

 Sp. pi. 772. {CEder. Dan. t. \o?>. Fkr. Lappcn. /. 



Narrow-leav'd Creeping Spearwort. Anglis. 



By the fides of lakes, but rare. At the weft end of 

 Loch-Lcven/ml^nrofsfknre. Dr. Fa?yons. U. VI L 

 VIII. 



The ftalk is long and flender. It creeps upon the 

 ground, and takes root at every joint, bur ap- 

 proaches fo near to fome ftates of the preceding 

 fpecies, that Haller, in his Hiji^. Stirp. Heh. and 

 Scopoli, in his Flcr. Carniol. are confident it is no 

 other than a variety of it, and Limiceus himfeJf 

 fufpedls the fame. 



R. foliis cordatis, angulatis, petiolatis, caule uni- 

 floro. Syft. nat. Linn. p. 378. ^p. pi. 774. {CEder, 

 Dan. 499. opt. Ger. em. 816. Blakwell. t. p,i) ■ 

 Pilewort, or leiTer Celandine. Anglis. 



Under hedges, on fnady banks and In woods, very 

 common. '4. IV, V. 



The' root confifts of fmall fibres, intermixed with a 



clufter of tubercles : the Calyx has generally but 



three deciduous leaves, and the flower commonly 



eight Petals^ each having a neclariferous emargN 



U nated 



