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footftalks ; they are fmooth and glaucous, and 

 their lobes generally trifid ; the panicle is branched 

 and open, and the flowers nod : the petals are of 

 a pale green, tinged with red-: the Stamina are 

 from fifteen to tv*^enty ; the feeds deeply ftriated, 

 in number from two to feven. 



eilpinum 3. T. caule fimplicifTimo fubnudo, racemofimplici ter- 

 minali. Sp.pL 767. (Oed. Dan. t. 11. opt, Moris* 

 hift. f. 9. /. 20,/. i^.Fet, herb, t, 71. /. 12. Cg* 

 fig, noft,) 

 Alpine Meadow-Rue. An^Iis. 



By the fides of rivulets on the highland mountains 

 frequent, as upon Maol-ghlaSy in Breadalhane^ 

 and the mountains about Loch-Rannoch^ in Perth- 

 Jhire% on Baikevall^ in the ifland of Rum-, on 

 Ben-na-Grion^ two miles above M'Kennon^s caftle, 

 m Strathy in the ifle o( Skyey on Ben-na-ScreCy 

 above Arnefdale^ by the fide of Loch Urn^ on the 

 wevlern coafl of Livernefsjloire^ and numberlefe' 

 other places. It has likewife been obferved in 

 the lowlands, as upon Hart^Felk near Mojfatt, 

 in Annandale^ by Mr. Sheffield^ Fellow of JVor- 

 cejier college, in Oxford,' %* VI. VII. 



It is an elegant little plant, about a finger's length 

 in height, and truly alpine : the leaves all arile 

 from the root, the ftalk being naked and un- 

 branched : the flowers nod, and have four Pe- 

 tals^ twelve Stamina and eight Pijlills, 



RANUNCULUS. 



