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

5to6 bCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA.
It is extremely acrid and cauftic, and therefore
rarely ufed in the prefent pradtice,
TRIGYNIA.
POLYGONUM. Gen. pi 495.
Cal. o. Cor. 5-partita, calycina, Sem. i, angii-
latum,
^' Biftortse fpica tinica.
h'ljlojta I. POLYGONUM caule fimpliciffimo monoftachyo,
foliis ovatis in petiolum decurrentibus. Sp. pi.
516. [Oed. Dan, t. 421. Miller, icon. 66. Ger.
Em. 399. /. 1.)
The greater Biftort, or Snal^eweed. Anglis.
In moid meadows, but not common. I obferv'd
it about Inverary. '^. VII.
The root has an acid auftere tafte, and is a power-
ful aftringent : the leaves are by fome boil'd in
the Spring, and eaten as greens.
viviparum POLYGONUM caule fimpliciffimo moncftachyo, .
2. foliis lanceolatis. Sp. -pi. 516. {Oed. Dan. t. 13.
opt. Ger. Em. 399./. 2- PIukeneL t. ^S^-f- 2.)
Small Biftort, or Snakeweed. Anglis. " \
In dry ftony paftures by the fides of mountains \
not unfrcquent, as about the pafs of liillicranky^
near Blai?'^ on th6 fides of the mountains about
Loch Rannoch in Perthjhire., Loch-Urn in In'ver-
7iefs-Jhire., &c. and on Ben-huardal, in Strath., in
theifleof Skye. %. VI.
The lowermoft flowers of the fpike generally put
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