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Syft. nat,^ (p. 317 ^ 226) to reduce it to the Ge- 

 nus of Crajfula. Unlefs, therefore, our plant 

 varies in the number of ftamina, it cannot with 

 any propriety be referr'd to his crafTula ruhensy 

 tho' it may to fome of the mifapply'd fynonyms. 



viUcfum 5. SEDUM caule ere6lo, foliis planiufculis, pedun- 

 culifque fubpilofis. Sp. pL 620. {Oed. Ban. t. 24. 

 opt. Ger. em. 516./. i. Moris, hiji. f. 12. i. 8./. 



Marfli Stonecrop. Jnglis. 



On bogs and moiil rocks by the fides of mountains, 

 as on Feraland'HiUs\ Dr. Varfons : and in Glen- 

 EglaSy in Strath -Eme^ to the fouth of Cr/>/, &c. 

 Mr, Stuart. O . VI. 



The ftalk is ered, four or five inches high, 

 branch'd at the top, downy and vifcid : the leaves 

 grow alternate and diftant, oblong, thick, con- 

 vex on the outfide, and obtufe : the flowers grow 

 in a thin branched umbel, at the top of the (lalk, 

 upon vifcid peduncles : the calyx is downy and 

 vifcid : the petals are oval and acute, of a red 

 color, with a hairy Carina of a deeper red. 



OXALIS. Gen.pL 582. 



CaL 5-phyllus. Fetala unguibus connexa. Caps. 

 angulis dchifcens, 5-gona. 

 acetofelia i OXALIS fcapo uniQoro, foliis ternatls, radice 

 fquamofa arti^^ulata. Sp, pL 620. {Miller, icon, 



195. 



