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Bot. t. 1547.) in full bloom, which had 

 never fallen in my way before. It is a very 

 rare plant, and grows so sparingly, that, 

 after finding one specimen, there is little 

 hope of soon meeting with another*. 



The root is throughout of the thickness 

 of a very small quill, white, smooth, fleshy, 



* In the Flora Lapponica this plant is said to be 

 very frequent in Lapland. In other countries it is 

 usually reckoned extremely rare ; but I was favoured 

 by Mr. Edward John Maughan, a young botanist of 

 Edinburgh, in the summer of 1607^ with a copious 

 supply of specimens and living roots, gathered 

 amongst willows in a peat bog, a little to the south 

 of Dalmahoy hill, about nine miles from Edinburgh. 

 Some of the roots blossomed in ray garden. 



