Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 187
globular heads of flowers, often occurs in i-noorifh.
grounds, flow'ring a month later. {Moris, hijl.f.
8. /. 9./. prima ordinis fuperioris.)
iftcam 15. J. foliis planis, fpica racemofa nut^nte. Sp.pl. 469.
(Oed. Ban. t. 270, Fl. Lapp. i. 10. /. 4.)
Alpine Nodding-Rufh. ' Anglis.
Upon the fides of the highland mountjins, near
their fummits : upon Ben-na-fcree, on the North
fide of Loch-Urn., on the Weftern coaft of In-
vernefs/Ijire^ &c. n. VII.
The llalk bends in an arc towards the top, bearificr
at the extremity a clofe oblong fpike of flowers :
the leaves are fometimes a little hairy at the
bafe. It is very nearly related to the preceding
fpecies.
PEPLIS. Gen. pi 446.
'Perianth, campanulatum, ore li-iido. Petala 6,^
calyci inferta. Caps. 2-locularis.
p^iula I. PEPLIS floribus apetalis. Sp. pi. 474. {Oed. Dan.
t. 64. opt. Loejsl. Prujf. /. 20. Miehel gen. t. 18.
fig. Juperior. Vail. Paris, t. 15./. 5. Ger.Em. 614.
/.ii.)
Water Purflane. Anglis.
In places that have been overflowed in the Winter
not uncommon, o. VIII.
The ftalks are angular, an:, creep upon the ground:
the leaves grow in pairs, fmooth, vs^th long foot-
ftalks, but rounded at the extremity : the flov/ers
are fefllle in the alee of the leaves, and frequently
without any petals,
TRIGYNIA.