2o6 OCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



It is extremely acrid and cauftic, and therefot-e 

 rarely ufed in the prefent pra6tice, 



T R I G Y N I A. 



POLYGONUM. Gen. pi 495. 

 CaL o. Cor, 5-partitaj calycina. Sem. i, angis- 

 la turn 4 

 '^ Biflort^ fpica unica, 

 hiprta 1. POLYGONUM caiile fimplicimmo monoflachyo, 

 foliis ovatis in petiolum decurrentibus. 6^. pL 

 516. {Oed. Ban, t. 421. Miller, icon, 66. Get, 

 Em. o,(^^,f 1.; 

 The greater Biftort, or Snakeweed. Anglis, 

 In moifl: meadows, but not common. I obferv'd 



it about Inverary, '^. VII. 

 The root has an acid auftcre tafte, and is a power- 

 ful aft rin gent : the leaves are by fome boiW in 

 the Spring, and eaten as greens* 



viviparum POLYGONUM caule firripliciiTimo mbnoftachyOi 

 2. foliis lanceolatis. 6^. pL 516. {Oed. Ban. t, 13. 



ept. Ger. Em. 399./- 2. Flukenet. t. 151./. 2.) 

 Small Biftort, or Snakeweed. Anglis. 

 In dry ftony paftures by the fides of mountains 

 not unfrequent, as about the pafs of Killicranky^ 

 near Blalr.^ on the fides of the mountains about 

 Loch Rannoch in Perth/hire^ Loch-Urn in Inver- 

 nefS'JJme^ Sec. and on Ben-huardal^ in Strath, in 

 the ille of Skye. %, VI. 

 The lowermoft flowers of the fpike generally put 



on 



