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VII. 
BULBOCODIU™M, 
4 Rese flower is compofed of fix petals, and has no cup. The feed-veffel is marked with three 
ridges ; and there are fome rudiments of leaves upon the ftalk, 
Linnzus places this among the hexandria. 
Alpine Bulbocodium.’ 
Bulbocodium flore rubente. 
The root is fmall and round. 
The leaves are numerous, long, narrow, and 
of a pale green. : 
The ftalk is four inches high, very flender, and 
has a few imperfect leaves. 
One flower ftands at the top ; and this is fmall, 
and of a pale red on the outfide, but white 
within, ; 
We have it on our northern mountains. It 
flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Bulbocodium Alpinum pumilium junci- 
folium flore unico extus rubente, 
Its virtues are unknown, 
Th END of te TWENTY-NINTH CLASS, 
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