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

oSo ICOSANDRIA POL' rYNIA.
Meadow-Sweet. Anglis,
Lus-chneas-ChuchulIainn. Gaulis.
In wet meadows, and on the banks of ditches and
rivers, li. VII.
The leaves of this fpecies have only two or three
pair of pinn^, with a few fmallerones intermix'd,
the extreme one being larger than the reft and
divided into three lobes : the calyx is reddifh, the
petals white, the number of capfiijes from fix to
ten, twifted in a fpiral.
The whole plant is extremely fragrant : the com-
mon people in Szveden on holidays ftrew their
floors with it.
A diftill'd water from the flowers has great efficacy
in expelling the mealies and fmall-pox. The
whole plant has an aftringent quality, and as
fuch has been found ufeful in dyfenteries, rup-
tures, and in tanning of leather. Horfes and
cows do not afi^ecl it, but goats are very fond
of it.
P O L Y G Y N I A.
ROSA. Gen. pi. 631.
Pctala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnofus, collo
coardtatus. Sem. plurima flifpida, calycis interi-
ori lateri affixa.
* Germinibus fuhghhofts.
Jpinofiffma ROSA germinibus globofis^glabris^pedunculis hif-
j» pidis, caule petiolifq. aculeatiflimis. Sp.-pl 705.
{(2er. em. 1270./. 4. Cliis. hijl. 1, p. 116)
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