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is in great plenty on JSroadpooI-common, and in the paftures at 

 Goat-fanes, by Raven 's~bugh-cra.g, near Simonburn. The root is 

 fibrous, and fends forth many Italics ; four, but rarely five, 

 inches long; frequently procumbent from their weaknefs. The 

 under leaves are round and firm ; the upper ones narrow ; both 

 of a lively green. The flowers are in fpikes, in a lateral feries, 

 for the moft part of a beautiful blue, fometimes variegated with 

 white in elegant capillary lines ; holding their colour in drying. 

 It is a very bitter plant, and retains its bitternefs a long time. 



134. Long-leaved Sun-Dew (u) is frequent in marfliy places in 

 woods, and about bogs. It is in a bog on the north fide of Slater-- 



feld, near Simonburn, plentifully. 



135. Round-leaved Sun-Deiv (-wj is lefs common. It is in the 

 Duke of Portland's wood near Hexham. They are both low plants, 

 about four inches high. The flowers of both are in thin fpikes, 

 on pedicles. They are fmall, of a bright white. They have 

 the name of SUN-DEW from the drops of a clear fluid {landing 

 always on their red hairy leaves in the hottefl day. They are fo 

 fatal to fheep, that the common people call them, the red Rot ; 

 owing to vermicular OVA inferted in the leaves, which fecundate 



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(u) Ros folis. Dod. Pempt. p. 474. bene. I. B. iii. p. 761. Rorida five foils ros, & 

 Drofion recentiorum. Lob. Icon. p. 811. Icon propria. Ros folis folio oblongo. C. B. 

 Pin. p. 357. Hift Own. iii. p. 620. f. 15. t. 4. f. 2. Raj. Hift. ii. p. iioo. Syn. iii. 

 p. 356. Tourn. Inft. p. 245. Ros folis major feu longifolius. Barrel. Icon. p. 251. n. u. 

 Drofera fcapis radicatis foliis oblongis. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. no. Flo. Suec. n. 258. 

 Royen. lugdb. p. 417. Rorella caule fimplici, foliis ellipticis. Hall, Htlv. p, 372. 



(iv) Rorida f. Res folis major. Lob. Icon. p. 811. Ros folis folio rotundo. C. B. Pin. 

 p. 357. Raj. Hift. ii. p. iioo. Syn. iii. p. 356. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 620. Tourn. Inft. 

 p. 245. Boerh. Ind. A. p, 216. Ros folis, Offic. /. B. iii. p. 761. Dal. Pharm. p. 238. 



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