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

238 DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.
1^5./. 2. Ger, em. 1201. /. i. Fet. herb. t. 63.
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Wood Sorrel. Anglh. Gouke-meat. Scoiis.
Biadh-cunain, feada-coille. Go.uiis,
In woods frequently. At the hermuage, &c. Dr.
Farjons. if.. V.
The leaves are radical only, and numerous ; three
grow together at the top of one common foot-
ftalk, hearr-ihap'd, hairy, their points all meet-
ing in a centre, and endued with a degree of fenfi- ,
bility, for when itruck or handled they droop.
hinnccus fays they are expanded in moill rainy
weather, and contraded in dry. The flowers
are white, elegantly marked with red veins,
have yellow Ungues., and grow fmgly upon radi-
cal footftalks.
The whole plant has an agreeable acid taile, and
cooling quality, and is recommended in malig-
nant fevers, and for the fcurvy. In the ifland of
Arran I was informed that a whey or tea of it was
ufed in putrid and other fevers, with good fuc-
cefs.
AGROSTEMMA. Gen. pL 583.
Cal. i-phyllus, coriaceus. Petala 5, unguiculata ; 1'
Limlo obtufo indivifo. Caps, i-locularis.
githago I. AGROSTEMMA hirfuta, calycibus corollam ^qu-
antibus, petalis integris nudis. Sp.pL 624. (Cer.
em. 1087. Moris, hiji. f. 5. /. 21./. ^i.FeL herb.
t. 57. f. 12;
Cockle.