A P P E N D I X. 1 101 



viiisidaa. VACCINIUM. p. 102. 



The berries are eaten by the Highlanders, and 

 reckoned wholefome and cooling. Mr. SittarL 



DECANDRIA TPvIGYNIA. 



no5ilflora. SILENE calycibns decemangularibus, dentibus 



tubum sequantibus, caule dichotomo, petalis 



, ■ biu^-is. Syft. nat. edit. i^. pag. ^^i. Sp. pi. 



f;gg. (Parkin/. 632. Camerar. hort. 109. /. 



34. Moris, hiji. Ox. fe^. c^. tab. 20. fig. 2. or- 



' . ' dinis medii. 



Night- flowering Catchfly. Anglis. 

 In the fields behind the phyfic-garden near Edin- 

 burgh. Perhaps efcaped cut of the garden, as 

 this is the only place in which it has yet been 

 obferv'd. Mv. Talden. o. VII. and VIII. 

 The ftalk is rough, about a foot high, ere(St, and 

 nightly dichptomous at the top. 

 J The leaves are oval-lanceolate, narrowed at the 



bafe, feflile, and hairy. 

 ' - The flowers grow at the fummits of the branches, 

 and out of the ala of the upper leaves, fup- 

 ported on footftalks. 

 The calyx is tumid at the bafe, narrowed towards 

 the top, and flreak'd externally with ten green 

 ■ '. lines. 



The petals are heart>fliaped, of a very pale red 

 ' on 



