APPENDIX. 



1099 



'^- ■^'.'"" ■"" is often occafioned by their feeding on this 

 heib, which opinion is very ancient. 



. ,V H E X A N D R I A. 



mnfcrip. HYACINTHUS. />. 182. 



tus. The Highlanders call this plant in their language 



Fuath-muc, i. e. The Averfion of Swine^ and 

 fay that fwine have a particular diflike to the 

 roots. 



trifJus. JUNCUS, jj). 184. 



See a good figure of the variety of this with a 

 J ■ / fingle flower, in Jac^uht's Eniimeratio Jlirpium 



. Vindobcnenf. tab. 9, 



hifonius. JUNCUS, f. 185. 



The young feedlings of this rufli grow in tufts, 



*'■,,. and refemble in that ftate a mofs of the Bryiim 



... kind. The leaves are narrow and fubulate, 



■ . .- fcarcely a quarter of an inch high, many of 



them bearing the yellow coat of the iced on 



their fu nimits, which at firfc view appears like 



the anthera of a Bryum. 



Petiver calls thefe diminutive feedlings by the 



name of Pin-headed Cobweb Mujhrooms. See 



• ' his figure of them, Petiv. Gazcph. tab. 1^1. f 



- ■ •- 7. and a much better in Rofe's Elements of Bo- 



■'.■•'- - tan]'. 



