19® HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



The radical leaves have a deep finus in their edgei 

 on each fide, and are befides a little crifp'd : the 

 Italk ones are lanceolate : the branches are an- 

 gular and divaricated : the flowers grow in di^* 

 tant feffile whirls : the valves are dentated^ 

 with an obtufe apex -, the exterior one has a large 

 wart or grain, the other fcarcely any. 



«■* Hermaphroditic valvulis granulo deftitutis^f. nudis, 



nquaticus 6 R. floribns hermaphroditis, valvulis integerrimis 



nudis, foliis eordatis glabris acutis. Syft. Nat. 



255. Sp. pL 479. {Pet. berk. t. 2./. i. Ger. Em, 



389./. I.) 



Great Water Dock. Anglis. 



In ditches and by river-fides. Sihhald. % . VII. 



This may be readily known from the other fpecies . 

 by the fize of the leaves, which are a foot and a 

 half long, or more, of a lanceolate elliptic form, 

 cordated at the bafe. 



The root in decoction or efTenCe is efteem'd an ex- 

 cellent antifcorbutic, and pulveriz'd Is reckon'd 

 a good dentifrice^ 



digynus 7. RUMEX floribus hermaphroditis digynis. Sp. pL 

 pL 480. (Oed. Dan. /. 14. opt, Moris, hift. f. 5. t. 

 36./. penultim, Pluk. t. 2^2.,/. 2. Tet. herb. t. 3. 



/ 4.) 



Round-leav'd Mountain Sorrel. Anglis -. 



Sealbhag-nam-fiadh. Gaulis, 



Upon rocks by the fides of rivulets, which run 

 down from the highland mountains, very fre- 

 quent : I obferv'd it likewife in the iflands of 

 Hum and Skye in the fame kind of places. 



The 



