DiOECIA OCTANDRIA. 619 



OJieocolla^ foimerly much efteemed for bringing 

 on a Callus in fraclursd bones. 



RHODIOLA. Gen.pl 1124. 



MAS. Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. 4-petala. 

 FEM. Cal. 4-partitus. Ccr. nulla. Ne5faria 4. 

 Pifi. 4. Caps, 4, polylperinas. 



rofea i. RHODIOLA. Sp. pi. 1^6^. (Ger. em 532. ?et. 

 herb. t. 42,/. 2. Moris, hifi. f. 12. /. 10. /, 8* 

 Oed. Dan. t. 183. cpt.) 



Rofe-root, Rofewort. Anglis. 



Lus-nan-Iaogh. Gaulis. 



Upon the rocks at the fummits of almoft all the 

 Highland Alps, and very frequently by the fea- 

 lide, upon bold rocky Ihores, as in JJla^ near 

 Sunderland^ and at Sonick-Cave abundantly, and 

 upon the rocky Ihores of Jotia and Rumy &c, 

 %, VI. 



The root is thick, fucculent, horizontally branched, 

 and when bruifed or dried, has a rofe-likc fmel!. 

 The flalk is eight or ten inches high, ered, fim- 

 pie, and unbranched, irregularly befet with 

 fmooth, wedge-Ihap'd, fucculent, glaucous leaves, 

 with purple fummits, ferrated toward the extre« 

 mity, and acuminated. The flowers are fmall 

 and yellow, and grow in crowded umbels at the 

 tops of the ftalks. The male flowers are fome- 

 times furniflied with the rudiments of the fe- 

 male fex, but the capfules of thefe are generally 



barren 



