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mortar, and applied in one or more limpet fhells 

 to the part where the blifters arc to be railed. 

 This is the pradice in the iflc of Skye^ and other 

 places upon the coaft* 



reftans 3* RANUNCULUS foiiis linearibus, caule repente. 



Sp. pi, 773. {(Eder. Dan. t, 108. Plor, Lappon, L 



3.7.5. ^fg. no ft.) 

 Narrow-leav*d Creeping Spearwort. Anglis, 

 By the fides of lakes, but rare. At the well end of 



Loch-Leven^in Rinrofs/hire. 'Dv.Parfons, %^Yll>> 



VIII. 



The ftaik is long and flender. It creeps upon the 

 ground, and takes root at every joint, but ap- 

 proaches fo near to fome Hates of the preceding 

 fpecies, that Haller^ in his Hiji. Stirp, Heh. and 

 Scopoli^ in his Flor, CarnioL are confident it is no 

 other than a variety of it, and Unnaus himfeJf 

 fulpedls the fame, 



fie aria 4, ^- io\\\s> cordatis, angulatis), petiolatis, caule uni- 

 fioro. Syft. nat, Linn. p. 378. ^p. pL 774. {(Ederi> 

 Dan. 499. oft. Ger. em. 816. Blakwell. t, 51J 

 Pilewort, or leffer Celandine. Anglis, 



Under hedges^ on fhady banks and in woods, y^ry 

 common. '4. IV* V. 



The root confifts of fmall fibres, intermixed with a 



duller of tubercles : the Calyx has generally bui; 



three deciduous leaves, and the flower commonly 



eight Petals^ each having a nectariferous emargi- 



U nated 



