2i 4 OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



leaves, alternately. The flowers are large, of a bright white. 

 The calyx is hairy. It flowers in May and June. The Tuber a arc 

 ufed by infufion in wine, or by decoftion in water, as a diu- 

 retic *. 



We have it in gardens with a beautiful double flower (I). 



117. EngUJIj MarJJj Saxifrage (c). About alpine bogs and lakes. 

 At the eaft end of Bromley-lake, on the ftrand, plentifully. The 

 flalks are procumbent, four or five inches long, with many 

 branches and joints. The bottom-leaves are an inch long and 

 narrow. The upper ones are fliort, linear, firm, and rigid, in 

 pairs at the joints. The flowers are on the tops of the flalks 

 and branches. They are moderately large, milk-white, and 

 flellate. The ovary opens into five parts. The feed is reniform, 

 It flowers in July and Auguft. It is a pretty plant in its flower- 

 ing ftate. 



i 



[i 8. The long-leaved Moiife-ear-Chickiveed, with a large Floiver (dj^ 

 is not unfrequent on dry banks. It is plentiful between the Glafs- 



houfes, 

 * MARTYN. 1. c. 



(b) . Flore pleno. ACT. HAFN. Ann. iii. Obf. 81. BOERH. 



(c) Polygonum foliis gramineis alterum. Lies. Flo. Prufs. p. 204. Icon. 64. beni, 

 Arcuaria. G. B. iii. p. 723. VailL 7. Arenaria paluftris. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 89. Alfine 

 nodofa GERMANICA. C. B. Pin. p. 251. Saxifraga paluftris ANGLICA. Ger. emac. p. 567. 

 Park. Theatr. p. 427. Raj. Hift. p. 1032. Saxifraga paluftris fotiis tenuiffimis, f. Saxi- 

 fraga paluftris. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 350. Alfine Spergulas facie, feminibus nuJis. Town. 

 Iilft. p. 244. Alfine paluftris Erics folio Polygonoides, articulis crebrioribus, flore albo 

 pulchello. Pluk. Aim. p. 23. t. 7. f. 4. Spergula minor, foliis Knaivel, flore majufculo 

 albo. Dill, GifT. p. 158. Spergula foliis oppofitis, peduncuT fimplicibus. Linn. Hort. 

 Cliff, p. 173. Flo. Suec. n. 378. Hill Nat. Hift. PI. p. 438. Alcine foliis fufciculatis, 

 petrolis fimplicibus, petalis integris. Hall. Helv. p. 389. 



(d) Holoftium caryophyllacum. Tabern, p. 233. bene. Auricula mjris pulchro flore albo. 

 /. B. iii. p. 360. Caryophyllus arvenfts hirfutus, flore majore. C. B. p. 2.10. Myofotis arvenfis, 



hirfuta 



