3.^S TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. 



Common Whitlow-Grafs. Anglis. 



On walls and rocks frequent, q.s on SaliJImry-CraigSy 

 &c. O.IV. V. 



Theftalks are naked, and about two or three inches 

 high : the leaves are elliptical, a little rough and 

 hairy, commonly with one or two dents, and 

 fomctimes more on the edges, and lie flat upon 

 the ground in a circle round the root : the petals 

 are white, and deeply Lifid : the Silicuia is ellip- 

 tical and comprefftd : the ftyle very fhort. 



In rainy weather and in the night the lialk and' 

 flowers hang downwards. 



ific^na 2. DRAB A foliis caulinis numerofis incanis, filiculis 

 oblongis, obliquis, fubfcfillibus. iJn. fyfi. nat. 

 432. Sp. pi. 897. (Pet. herh. t. 48./. 3 {fj' 4.: 

 Pluk. aim. t. 42, /. I. melior. Oed, Ban. t. 130. 

 opt.) 



Wreathen-podded Whitlow Grafs. Anglis. 



On dry rocky expofures among the h"ghland moun- 

 tains not unfrequent. I obferved it in manydr) 

 places, firil in the illand of 7/7«, upon dry rock) 

 banks near the Danijlo fort, afterwards in the il]( 

 of ^kyey upon rocks near Buntulm caflle, and a 

 Creg-a-chnocaen, near Lead- beg, in Ajjynt., on th( 

 border of Sutherland.^ growing together with th( 

 Jjryas 8 felala., and in many other places. ^ 

 VI. 



The italk is five or fix inches high, hairy, ftifi 

 ere6l, mod commonly finglc, but frequend 



branclied 



