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Identifier: florascoticaorsy011ligh (find matches)
Title: Flora scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides
Year: 1777 (1770s)
Authors: Lightfoot, John, 1735-1788
Subjects: Botany Botany
Publisher: London, Printed for B. White
Contributing Library: California Academy of Sciences Library
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rs numeri qui-hufdam excluditur,hypopithys MONOTROPA floribus lateralibus oftandris, ter-*• minali decandro. Sp,pl. ^^^. (Oed.Ban. t. 232. cpt. Moris, hift, f. 12. /. 16./. 13. ordtnis inferior is.Plukenet. ^. 209./. 5.)Primrofe-fcented Hypopithys. JngUs.In beach and fir-woods, v/here the ground is dry^and bare underneath, but not common. ^. VII.The radical fibres adhere to the roots of the treesunder which it grows : the flalk is about fiveinches high, having no other leaves than ovalfcales, and terminated with a nodding fpike offlowers, which in the feeding Hate becomesere6l: the whole plant is of a pale yellow color,fmeliing like the primrofe, or like beans inbioffom. ANDROMEDA. Gen. pi. 549.Cat. 5-partitus. C^r. ovata, ore 5-fido. Caps. 5-lp-cularis.PQUfolia I, ANDROMEDA pedunculis aggregatis, coroUisovatis, foliis alternis lanceolatis revolutis. Sp.pi. 564. (Oed. Ban. t. 54. opt. Flor. Lappon. t.i.f. 2. Plukenct, /. 175./. i.y• Marili Andromeda, or Marfn Rofemary, Anglis*^ In
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N DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 215 In peat-bogs in the Lowlands not unfrequent, andabundantly upon Solway-Mofs^ on the bordersof the tv/o kingdoms, b. V. & IX. This eiegant little flirnb is about fix or eight incheshigh, ere6l and branched ; the leaves are fefTile,elliptical, rigid, their edges turnd back, greenon the upper fide, glaucous underneath: thepeduncles are of a bright red color, and arifefrom the fummits of the branches, each fup-porting one fingle oval fiov^er, of a pink color,with a red calyx, ARBUTUS. Gen. pi 552. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. ovata, ore bafi pellucida.Bac^a 5-locularis.aipina i. ARBUTUS caulibus procunibentibus, follis ru-gofis knms.Sp.pL 566. (Oed. Dan, t, 73. Ger.Em. 1416. /. 4. ^ fig. noftra.) Alpine Arbutus. Anglis. Upon many of the highland mountains in dry bar-ren places, particularly on thofe to the Souti ofLit tie Loeh Broom, in Rofs-fiire^-sind thofe in thev;ay between Loch-Broom and Loch-Mari abun-dantly, &c. I found it likewife upon a moun-tain caild

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  • bookyear:1777
  • bookdecade:1770
  • bookcentury:1700
  • bookauthor:Lightfoot__John__1735_1788
  • booksubject:Botany
  • bookpublisher:London__Printed_for_B__White
  • bookcontributor:California_Academy_of_Sciences_Library
  • booksponsor:California_Academy_of_Sciences_Library
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