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Under hedges and in gardens frequent, '^. VI. 



There are often the veftiges of a bulb to be leen 

 at the root of this plant, which feems to have 

 been divided into creeping offsets by age, or 

 fome particular foil or expofure. The great Hal- 

 ler is of opinion, that this is no other than a va- 

 riety of the preceding fpecies. 



The footftalks of the leaves at the bafe are dilated 

 into a broad, whitifli membraiie, which em- 

 braces the ftalk : the neftariferous fcale at the 

 bale of the petals is broad and ilightly bifid. 



R. calycibus patulis, pedunculis teretibus, foliis 

 tripartito-multifidis •, fummis linearibus. Sp. pL 

 779. (Ger. em. 95 k/. 2) 



Upright Meadow Crowfoot. Anglis. 



In meadows and paftures very common. '^. VU. 



The ftalk is erect, cylindrical, two feet high, fiftu- 

 lar, and very much branched : the leaves are 

 rough, divided to the bafe into three primary 

 lobes, the middle one of which is trind ; and the 

 lateral ones fubdivided into two lobes, each of 

 which is bifid : the Calyx is fmooth, the Petals 

 yellow and glolTy, the nectariferous fcale at their 

 bafe nearly heart- fnap'd : the Stamina from 48 

 to ^6 i the Germina about 56. 



The whole plant is hot and cauftic, readily and 

 fafely raifing a blifter, without affecting the uria- 

 arv palTases, by bringing upon the patient a Uran- 

 eury or the like. 



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