256 DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



lege of Lificluden^ near Dumfries^ and upon the 

 walls by the fide of the Clydcy at Rojeneatb •, np- 

 Rofs-IJland^ in Loch-Lcmond, and numberlefs 

 other places. G. VI. Vli. 



From one root arife feveral branches, which recline 

 at their bafe» but afterwards grov/ eredt about 

 two inches high : the leaves are oval, gibbous, 

 obtufe, fefTile, alternate, fmooth, and crouded 

 clofe together at the fummits of the unflow'rins 

 branches, but more diftant in the flow'ring ones. 

 I'his, together with the unfolded Cyma^ makes 

 the tops of the young branches bigger than the 

 bottom, like an inverted cone. The Cyma^ or 

 little umbel, which terminates the branches, is 

 generally trifid, and confifts of an uncertain 

 number of flowers from three to nine. Handing 

 either on very fliort peduncles, or quite fefTile, 

 The petals are acute, of a pale f^efh color, with 

 a red Carina. The germina are of a bright red. 

 The {lamina ten, five arifing from the bafe of 

 the petals, and five between them, with red An- 

 thera. The whole plant is fmooth and reddifh in 

 decay. 



It is defcrib'd by Ualler in his Sttrp. Helvet, n. 963, 

 but cannot properly be referr'd to any fpecies of 

 Linnaeus, The ledum annuum of Linnaeus he him- 

 felf informs us, bears a yellow flower. Fior.fuec, 

 ■p. 154. i^ Mantijs. p. 389 •, it cannot therefore 

 be that. And the fedum rubens, Sp, pi. 619, has 

 but hvQ Jlaminay which has ocafioned him in his 



