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

;86 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.
footftalks ', they are fmooth and glaucous, and
their lobes generally trifid : the panicle is branch'd
and open, and the flowers nod : the petals are of
a pale green, tinged with red : the Stamina are
from fifteen to twenty ; the feeds deeply ftriated,
in number from two to feven.
pinum 2' T. caule fimpliciflinio fubnudo, racemofimplici ter-
minal!. cp.pL 767. (Oed. Dan. t. 11. opt. Moris,
hiji.fs 9. /. 20./. 14. Pet, herb. t. 71. /. 12. {f?
fig. noji.)
, Alpine Meadow- Rue. An^Iis.
By the fides of rivulets on the highland mountains
frequent, as upon Maol-ghlas^ in Breadalbane,
and the mountains about Loch-Rannoch, in Perth-
JJoire ; on Baikevail, in the ifland of Rum ; on
Ben-na-Grion, tv;o miles above M'Kennon's caftle,
in Strath, in the ifle of Skye •, on Ben-na-Scree,
above Arnefdale, by the fide of Loch Urn, on the
vveftern coaft of Invernefsjhire, and numberlefs
other places. It has likewife been obferved in
the lowlands, as upon Hart-Fell, near Moffatt,
in Annandale, by Mr. Sheffield, Fellow of IVor-
cejier college, in Oxford, "V. VI. VII.
It is an elegant little plant, about a finger's length
in height, and truly alpine : the leaves all arife
from the root, the ftalk being naked and un-
branched : the flowers nod, and have four Pe-
tals, twelve Stamna and eight Pifiills.
RANUNCULUS.