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

244 DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.
In Holland and Germany it is fov/n in the fields as a
fodder for cattle.
lodofa 2. S. foliis oppofitis fubulatis l^vibus, caulibus fimpli-
cibus, 5^. 'pi. 630. {ped. Dan. t. 96. opt. Loes.
Flor. PruJJ'. p. 204. /. 64. hjm. Pet. herb. t. ^9-
f. 5. Ger. cm. ^6j. f. 6. Plukenei. t. ^j. f. 4)
Knotted Spurrey. JngUs.
In vvet paflnres, and on the fides of lakes and
rnarfiies, but not very common, it. VIII.
Several flalks arife from one root, fometimes re-
clining and fometimes ereft, and about three or
four inches high : the leaves are fmooth, of a fine
green, and from their boibms towards the top of
the ftalks appear little knots of other leaves,
Y.'hich are the rudiments of young branches :
the flowers are wliite, with yellow antherac •, they
grow ereft, and generally fingle at the top of the
branches.
:ricwa :?. SPERGULA foiiis oppofitis fubulatis ciliatis fafci-
culatis. Sp. pL &31. {Fii';. nulla)
Larch-leav'd Spurrey. JngUs.
Upon dry paflures of a gravelly foil. I obferv'd it
UDon a hill in tlie ifland of Bute. % . VI.
From one root arife feveral ftalks about an inch or
an inch and a half high : the leaves are linear,
fi.ibulate, and acuminated, fiightly hairy or ci-
liated on the edges, and their points turn to one
fide of the ftalk : from their alas arife tufts of
other leaves, which are the rudiments only of
young