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bluifh-black, not efculent. The feed is contained in four cells. 

 The calyx confifts of four patent mucronated leaves, larger than 

 the flower, which hath eight ftamina. It flowers in May and June. 



25. Tuberous Mofchatel, or MuJk-Wood-Croivfoot (k). About moift 

 hedges, and on the borders of woods. On the bank under the 

 hedge, below St. Mungo's well at Hall Barns, oppoiite to the church 

 of Simonburn, clofe by the brook. Under the bufhes by the road 

 on the left hand from Simonburn to Tecket, plentifully. In the 

 hedges about Hexham. The root confifts of bulbous jointed fila- 

 ments, fending forth new plants at diftances. The radical leaves 

 are ternate and lobated, like thofe of the white flowered alpine 

 fumitory, and of the fame pleafant green colour, on a long pe- 

 dicle. The ftalks are fmooth, and flender, about four inches 

 high, with a pair of lobated leaves in the middle, on fhort pedi- 

 cles. The flowers form a kind of fquare head at the top, four in 

 a lateral oppofite order, crowned with a fifth, each monopetalous 

 cut into four or five fegments, of a yellowifh-green colour, fmell- 

 ing faintly of mufk. They are fucceeded by fmall greenifli 

 berries of a fpherical fhape. The feeds are difpofed on a cornered 

 Placenta, feldom more than three coming to maturity. It flowers 

 in April and May. 



26. We have the Arum, Wake-Robin, or Cuccoiv-pint, both without 

 and with black fpots on its fagittated leaves (I), in wood-bottoms, 



and 



(k) Mufchatellina foliis fubariae bulbofae. 7. B. iii. p. 206. Raj. Hift. p. 684. Syn. iii. 

 p. 267. Tourn. Inft. p. 156. Vaill. p. 127. Ranunculus nemerofus, Mofchatellina diilus. 

 C. B. Pin. p. 178. Mufchatellina. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 40, &c. Hall. Helv. p. 412. 

 Adoxa. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 153. Flo. Suec. p. 118. n. 326. Royen, lugdb. p. 252. Hill, 

 Nat. Hift. PI, p. 410. 



(/; Arum. Dad. Pempt. p. 528. Cord. Hift. p. 102. bene. 7. B. u. p. 783. Raj. Hift. 

 p. 1208. Syn. iii. p. 266. Arum, OfEc. Dal, Phartn. p. 256. Arum vulgare maculatum et 



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