33» TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. 



Common Whitlow-Grafs. Jnglis. 



On walls and rocks frequent, as on Salifiury-CraigSj 

 Sec. G.IV. V. 



Theftalks are naked, and about two or three inches 



high : the leaves are elliptical, a little rough and 



^ ^^^7 hairy, commonly with one or two dents, and 



"' *' fometimes more on the edges, and lie flat upon 



the ground in a circle round the root : the petals 

 are white, and deeply Lifid : the Silicma is ellip- 

 tical and comprefTed : the fly le very fhort. 



In rainy weather and in the night the ftalk and 

 flowers hang downwards. 



incana 2. DRABA foliis caulinis numerofis incanis, filiculis 

 oblongis, obliquis, fubfeflilibus. Lin. fyft. nat, 

 432. S'p, pL 897. (Pet, herb. t. 48. / 3 ^ 4. 

 Fluk. aim. t. 42, /. i. meli'or. Oed, Ban, t. 130. 

 opt.) 



Wreathen-podded Whitlow Grafs. Ang'/is. 



On dry rocky expofures among the h'ghland moun- 

 tains not unfrequent. I obfervcd it in many diy 

 places, firfl in the ifland of IJla^ upon dry rocky 

 banks near the JDaniJh fort, afterwards in the ille 

 of Skye^ upon rocks near Buntulm caftle, and at 

 Creg-a-chnccaen^ near Lead-beg^ in Ajjynt^ on the 

 border of Sutherland., growing together with the 

 Bryas Z-petalcy and in many other places. $ .' 

 VI. 



The ftalk is five or fix inches high, hairy, fliff, 

 cre£l:, mofl commonly fmglc, but frequently 



branched : 



