DIOECIA OCTAKDRIA. 019 



Ofieocclla^ foimerly much efleeincd for bringing 

 _ . Qn a Callus in fradured bones. 



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--• '. ■: - RHODIOLA. Gm.^l 1124. 



MAS. Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. 4-petala. 

 ' ! . FEM. Cal. 4-partitus. Cor. nulla. Ne£laria .:^ 

 -. ; Fiji. 4. Caps. 4, polyfpermx. 



r«A^ I. RHODIOLA. Sp. pi. 1465. fC^r. em 532. P^/. 

 /&^r/^., ^. 42./. 2. Mjm. i;/. / 12. /. jo. /. 8, 

 Oed. Dan. t. 183. tf/)/.; 

 ...%■ I ' Rofe-root, Rofewort. Jnglis, ■:.: 



X-us-nan-laogh. Gaulis, .. -v.;^' 

 Upon the rocks at the fummits of alftioft all the 

 Jiighland Alps, and very frequently by the fea- 

 fide, upon bold rocky fhores, as in IJla, near 

 Sunderland^ and at Sanick-Cave abundantly, and 

 upon the rocky Ihores of Jona and Rum, &c. 



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• • ; I • The root is thick, fucculent, horizontally branched, 



*" '"''■■ and when bruifed or dried, has a rofe-likc fmelL 

 : .:,. • ^ The ftalk is eight or ten inches hiyh, ereft, fim- 

 ,;*:'"' • '<. - pje, and unbranched, irregularly befet with 

 fmooth, wedge-fliap'd, fucculent, glaucous leaves, 

 -t,'y. ;. f with purple lummits, ferrated toward the extre- 

 , •>.'.'■'... . mity, and acuminated. The flowers are fmall 

 .,,_.'' ,- ' and yellow, and grow in crowded umbels at the 

 ( tops of the ftalks. The male flowers are fome- 

 times furniHied with the rudiments of the fe- 

 male fex, but the capfules of thefe are gererally 



barren 



