DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 331 



or dims fuperioris, Oed. Dan. /. 74. opt.) 



Purple Flax-glove. Jnglis, 



Meuran-fith. GauUs. 



In rough mountainous places not uncommon, as 

 upon the Corjiorphyn hills near Edinburgh^ and 

 on the hills about Loch-Rannoch in Pertbjhirey 

 and many other places $ YIL 



The ftalk is 3 or 4 feet high, ered, and generally 

 unbranched. The leaves are of an oval-lanceo- 

 form, foft and hairy, and ferrated on the edges. 



The flowers grow pendulous, in a long fpike, all 

 on the fame fide of the ftalk. They are of a 

 purple color, very fpecious, and marked internally 

 with pupillary fpots. It fometimes varies with 

 white flowers, but very rarely. 



The plant has a bitter quality : fix or feven fpoon- 

 fulls of the decoclion is a ftrong emetic and ca- 

 thartic. It has been found ferviceable in fcor- 

 phulous cafes, taken internally for fome time, 

 and the bruifed leaves or an ointment applied 

 outwardly. 



LLMOSELLA. Gen. pi. 776. 

 Cdl. 5 fid us Cor. 5 -fid a, asqualis. Siam. per paria 

 approximata. Caps, i-locularis, 2-valvis, poly^ 

 fperma. 



4^uatiea i. LIMOSELLA. Sp. pi. 881. Moris. hiJL f. 15. /• 

 2. 1. Piuk. aim. t. 74./ 4- P^^' ^^^^' ^- ^6'f- ^2- 

 Loes. Prufs. 216. /. 18. Menlz. pug. 2. t. 7./. 6. 



Oed. Dan, t. 69. opt.) 



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