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natcd fcale at its bafe. The Stamina are in number 

 from 18 to 36, the Germina from 16 to 24. The 

 flower opens at nine o'clock in the morning, and 

 clofes at five in the evening. 

 The young leaves in the fpring are boiled by the 

 common people in fome parts of Swederiy and 

 eaten as greens. The roots are fometimes wafh'd 

 bare by the rains, fo that the tubercles appear 

 above ground, and in this ftate have induced 

 the ignorant, in fuperftitious times, to fancy 

 that it has rained wheat, which thefe tubercles do 

 a little reiemble. The feeds of this plant com- 

 monly prove abortive, but this defcd in nature 

 is amply compcnfated by its remarkable readi- 

 nefs to encreafe by the granulated roots. 



"•''* Boliis dijfe^is ^ divijis. 



mricomuss RANUNCULUS foliis radicalibus reniformibus 

 crenatis incifis, caulinis digitatis linearibus, caule 

 mukifloro. Sp.pl. yy^. (Ger, em. ^^4. f. 7. PeL 

 herb, t. 38./. 2. Cs?/. 6. Moris, hiji.f. 4. /. 28. 



Sweet Wood Crowfoot, or Goldilocks, jinglis. 

 In w^oods and fhady places. Upon the banks of 



the river oppofite Logton wood, near Dalkeith. 



Dr. Parfons. Ti. V. 



The leaves are fmooth, the radical ones are fome of 

 them kidney- fliap'd and crenated, and others di- 

 vided into three lobes, all fupported by long foot- 

 {l?lks. Thofe on the upper part of the flalk 



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