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Under hedges and in gardens frequent. 'U. VI. 

 There are ofcen the veftiges of a bulb to be feen 

 at the root of this plant, which feems to have 

 been divided into creeping offsets by age, or 

 fome particular foil or expo fg re. 1 he great Bai- 

 ler is of opinion, that this is n^ other tlian a va- 

 riety of the preceding fpecie^. 

 The footilalks of the leaves iit the bafe are dilated 

 into a broad, whitifli membrane, which em- 

 braces the ftalk : the neftariferous fcale at the 

 bale of the petals is broad and (lightly bifid. 



atris 94 R- calycibus patulis, pedunculis teretibus, foliis 



tripartito-multifidis ; fummis linearibus. Sp, pL 

 yy<^, (Ger. em, 951^ f- 2) 



Upright Meadow Crowfoot, jinglis. 



In meadows and paftures very common. '^. Vll. 



The ftalk is ere£t, cylindrical, two ica. high, fiftu- 

 lar, and very much branched : the leaves are 

 rough, divided to the bafe into three primary 

 lobes, the middle one of which is trifid ; and the 

 lateral ones fubdivided into two lobes, each of 

 which is bifid : the Calyx is fmooth, the Petals 

 yeljow and glo%9 the nectariferous fcale at their 

 bafe nearly heart- fhap*d : the Stamina from 48 

 to 56 ; the Germina about 56. 



The whole plant is hot and caui^ic, readily and 

 fafely raifing a bliiler, witliout aiTeding the urin- 

 ary palTages, by bringing upon the patient a ftran- 

 gury or the like. 



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