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ditch-bottom on the left hand in going up the hill from the Half- 

 way houfe to Tynemwth. I do not remember to have fcen it any 

 where elfe with us. The root confifts of thick bulbous fibres,, 

 fending forth new plants at the joints. The ftalks are round, ro- 

 buft, hairy, and glutinous, branched at the top, from two to 

 three feet high. The leaves are of a fagittated form and mucro- 

 nated, with a plicated undulated margin, very hairy, and gluti- 

 nous underneath. The flowers are in clufters on the top of the 

 flalk and branches, each on a feparate pedicle. They are yel- 

 low, and large. The feed is winged with down. The calyx is 

 covered with a ihort down. It flowers in AugufVand September. 

 It makes a very different appearance in different fituations. On 

 the moift bank by the brook near Halywell, and in the lane near 

 Ellington, the ftalks are upright, firm, and robuft ; the flowers 

 are of a bright gold-yellow, the eye or diik bold and prominent, 

 affording by their numbers a pleaiing fight in the harveft-feafon. 

 On the banks of the O-wfe-burn, and in the ditch-bottom near 

 the Half-ivay houfe, above-mentioned, the ftalks are procumbent, 

 the flowers of a pale dull yellow, and the difk but lightly raifed ; 

 owing to their ftarved fituation, in a wet hungry foil. Under 

 culture on a moift border under a wall it grows to four feet high, 

 the flowers numerous, large, bright, and beautiful, in uniform 

 petiolated clufters, all of a height. But this muftbe remember- 

 ed, that it is a great runner, and requires being kept within 

 proper bounds; 



10. Great Sca-AJicr, orSfarivort (z). In fait marfhy places. On 

 the ftrand at the Oftium of WarB-rivulet, by_ the ford, near Budle. 



On 



(z) Tripolium. Dod. Pempt. p. 317. Tripolium, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 87. Tripo- 

 Jium majus caeruleum. C, B. Pin. p. 267. After maritimuspurpureus Tripolium di&us. Raj. 



