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

DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 233
Upon the highland mountains near their fummits,
and by the fides of rills in feveral places, as up-
on Ben-tejkerny and Ben-challmn^ two mountains
to the well of Loch-Tay, in Breadalhane, plenti-
fully ; and upon a mountain in Runiy called
Baikevah &c. ^. VIl. VIII.
It forms large green mofly tufts : the (talks are
about two inches high, clofely matted together,
and covered with crowded leaves, growing op-
pofite to each other, of a narrow linear acute
form, and firm texture, and a little rough on the
edges : the flowers grow out of the fummits of
the branches, fngle, eredt, and on very Ihort
peduncles, of a yellov.'ini green color: the leaves
of the calyx are of an oval lanceolate form, and
ftreak'd on the back with three lines : the necla-
ria are much iliorter than the calyx, and heart-
fhap'd : the whole plant, at firft view, has a
great refcmblance to a tuft of the female Poly-
trichum commune, or fome fpecics of vmium.
It has never yet been difcover'd in England, but is
peculiar to alpine countries.
PENTAGYNIA.
COTYLEDON. Gen. pi 578.
Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. i-petala. Squama neflariferse 5,
ad bafin germinis. Caps. 5.
umbilicus COTYLEDON foliis cuculato-peltatis ferrato-
veneris, i. dentatis alternis, caule ramofo, floribus eredlis.
Sp.