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

1^88 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.
3ammidai RANUNCULUS foliis ovato lanceolatis petiola-
tis, caulc declinato. % ;/. 772, {Ger. €mac.g6i.
f. 2. Moris, hlft.f. 4. /. 29./. 34. & variet.fbliis
fubferratis. Ger. em. Qj6i. f, 3. Moris, hijl.f. 4. /.
29./. ^^. Pet. herb, t.'i'^.f, 6)
LelTer Spcarwort. Anglis.
An lus-mor, Ghlals-icun. Gmlis,
On the fides of lakes and ditches very common, if.
VII-VIII.
The ftalk is often a cubit high, proftrate at the
bafe, but creft upwards and branched : the leaves
are elliptical, of a thick and firm texture, ge-
nerally fmooth, but fometimes a little rough and
hairy, moft commonly entire on the edges, but
Ibmetimes a little ferrated ; they Iheath the flalk
at their bafe like the preceding : the uppermoft
leaves are l.near : the Caiyx is a little hairy, the
flower not above half an Inch in diameter, the
Petals yellow and fhining, the necfariferous pore
encompalTed with a prominent fcale. By this It
appears, that in fome ftates it differs very litde
from the R. Lingua. It varies wonderfully in
magnitude, and in gravelly foils, degenerates to
fuch a trailing dwarf 111 and diminutive fize, with
linear leaves, that it is difficult to diftinguifli it
from the following fpecies.
It has an acrid and cauitic quality, and is ufed in
many parts of the highlands to raile blifters :
ior this purpofe the leaves are well bruifed in a
mortar,