120 OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



131. Long leaved Milk-wort (r) is common under hedges and 

 biilhes in- dry pafturcs, and on the borders of woods. It is in the 

 reclory-den at Simonburn'm great plenty. The ftalks are from fix 

 to eight or nine inches high. The flowers are in a long fpike, 

 in a lateral feries. The leaves are a little bitter. It flowers in 



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It varies in the colour of its flowers, being fometimes blue or 

 purple, and fometimes variegated with white, and not unfre 

 quently of a pure white. 



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132. Small round-leaved Milk--wort (sj is frequent in dry moun- 

 tainous pailures, and in the opening of woods, by way-fides. It 

 is at the eafl end of the fame den, on a dry fhadowy bank, near 

 the road. The flowers are moilly blue, or of different degrees 

 of purple or red, but rarely white. 



133. Small Marjh Milk-wort, 'with Myrtle or Box-like Leaves (t) is 

 frequent on moifl alpine heaths, and about damp fhady rocks. It 



(r) Polygala vulgaris major. Cluf. Pann. p. 315. Hift. p. 324. 7. B. iii. p. 337. Raj. 

 Hilt. ii. p. 1335. Vaill. Tab. xxxii. f. i. eximie. Polygala major. C. B. Pin, p. 215. Poly- 

 gala tetrapetala filiculofa, bicapfularis, fongo angufto folio major. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 326. 

 Polygala foliis linear! lanceolatis, caulibus diffufis herbaceis. Linn. Virid. Cliff, p. 70. 

 Hort. Cliff, p. 352. Flo. Suec. n. 586. Royen. lugdb. p. 393. Polygala foliis omnibus 

 acutis. Hall. Heir. p. 607. 



(s] Polygala vulgaris minor. Cluf. Polygalon multis. 7. B. ii. p. 386. Polygala vulgaris. 

 C. B. Pin. p. 215. Tourn. Inft. p. 174. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 205. Boerh. Ind. A. p. 236. 

 Dill. Giff. p. 78. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 287. Polygala, Offic. Ger. emac. p. 448. Raj. Hift. 

 i' 1 ' P- I 335- Dd- Pharm. p. 196. Polygala latifolia humilior, fpicis brevioribus, floribus 

 dilute purpureis. Zanich. p. 214. t. 38. Polygala foliis imis fubrotundis, fuperioribus an- 

 guftis acutis. Hall. Helv. p. 606. 



(t) Polygala myrtifolia paluftris humilior et ramofior. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 287. Polygala 

 buxei minoris folio flore caeruleo. Vaill. Tab. xxxii. f. 2. Et Polygala minor foliis circa 

 radicem rotundioribus. EJUSD. ib. p. 161. n. 4. 



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