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2. S. granulate, root granulated ; stem panicled, erect, leafy ; 

 leaves kidney-shaped, lobed ; flowers large, white ; calyx spread- 

 ing ; germen half-inferior ; stigmas downy. Meadow Saxifrage. 



Hab* Banks on a gravelly or sandy soil, not uncommon. 

 Wooler-Haughhead, Winch. Alderson's Dean, and sea- 

 banks near Marshall-meadows ; Tweed banks between 

 Yarrowhaugh and Ord Mill; Heugh, Holy Island; 

 Chapel-hill, Belford, Thomp. In the wood above the 

 Union Bridge. May. If. 



In conformity to the doctrine of Signatures, which attri- 

 butes to any substance having a semblance to any organ 

 of the body, sovereign virtues in removing the diseases of 

 that organ, this plant was pronounced very useful in cal- 

 culous complaints, because the roots somewhat resemble 

 small gravel-stones. And because it is " governed by the 

 moon," its credit remained undiminished with the astro- 

 logers, or those herbalists who imagined that the stars 



st shed down 



Their stellar virtue on all plants that grow 

 On earth, made hereby apter to receive 

 Perfection from the sun's more potent ray." 



132. SCLEBANTHUS. 



1. S. animus, stems spreading, branched dichotomously ; leaves 

 linear, opposite ; flowers small, green, in axillary and terminal 

 nearly sessile clusters ; calyx of the ftuit with spreading taper- 

 acute segments. Annual Knawel. 



Hah. Dry sandy fields, and on walls, July. 



133. DIANTHUS. 



1. D. deltoideS) leaves linear - lanceolate, somewhat downy; 

 flowers solitary, rose-coloured with a deeper circle in the middle ; 

 scales of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, acute, seldom more than 2 ; 

 petals notched, smooth. Maiden Pink. 



Hab. Dry gravelly banks. Hedge banks between Wooler 

 and Earl, Winch. Chapel-hill, Belford ; and craigs by 

 Craig-mill, Thomp. Frequent in the vicinity of Wooler, 

 July Oct. V 



