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

HEXANDRIA POLYGYNlA. 19J
ounce and half to a man, by a drachm at a dofcj
three or four times a day, has, in ieveral in-
fiances, been found to cure the dropfy, but in
more has fail'd.
POLYGYNlA.
ALISMA. Gen. PL 460.
CaL 3-phylkis. Peinia 7. Sem. plura.
phm^go a- ALISMA foiiis ovatis acutis, Vrudibus obtufe tri-
^ ' ' gonis. Sp. pL 4S6. {Ger. Em. \^"].f. i.)
Great Water Plantain. Anglis.
On the banks of lakes frequent, as at Dudijlon-
Loch, ^c. n. VII. Dr. Pf.rfo s.
The leaves are large, fmooth, oval and pointed :
the ftaik erecfl: and naked : the flowers whitCj
and fmall in proportion to the plant, growing in
a large open panicle ; the branches verticillate.
ramnculoi- A. foliis lineari-lanceolatis, frudibus globofo-fquar-
des 2. rods. Sp. fl 487. {Ocd. Dan. t. \ii. opt Ger.
E',n. A^'i-f 3- P^^- ^J£^''^- i- 43-/- S-i
Leffer Water Plantain.
In chtches and bogs, but not common. I obferv^d
it in ditches and by the fides of lochs in th$
iHandof Jp.. ^. VII.
o cLassis