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natcd fcale at its bale. The Stamina are in number 

 from 1 8 to 36, the Germina from 16 to 24. The 

 flower opens at nine o'clock in the morning, and 

 clofes at five in the evening. 

 The young leaves in the fpring are boiled by the 

 common people in fome parts of Sweden^ and 

 eaten as greens. The roots are fometimes wafh'd 

 bare by the rains, To that the tubercles appear 

 above ground, and in this ftate have induced 

 the ignorant, in luperftitious times, to fancy 

 that it has rained wneat, which thefe tubercles do 

 a little reicmble. The feeds of this plant com- 

 monly prove abortive,, but this defcd: in nature 

 is amply compeniated by its remarkable readi- 

 nels to encreale by the granulated roots^ 



•■** J^oliis djjfs£fis y divifis. 



iiiii-i comas s RANUNCULUS foliis radicalibus reniformibus 

 crenatis incifis, caulinis digitatis linearibus, caule 

 multificro. Sp. pi. 775. (Ger. em. 954- /• 7- ^^^^ 

 herb. t. 3'3.-/. 2. ^ f. 6. Moris, hifi. f. 4. /. 28. 



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Sv/eet Wood Crowfoot, or Goldilocks. .Anglis. 



In woods and fhady places. Upon the banks of 

 the river oppofite Lcgton wood^ near Dalkeith, 

 Dr. Parfons. n. V. 



The kaves are fmiooth, the radical ones are fome of 

 them kidncy-fliap'd and crenated, and others di- 

 vided into three lobes, all fupported by long foor- 

 il?lks. Tiiofe on the upper part of the ftalk 



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