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TETR ADYNAMIA SILICULOSA, 339
branched : the leaves are Icfliie, oval-lanceolate,
and fparingly dented on the edges : the flowers
are white, and grow in a cluftcr at the top of the
flalk : the petals are llighcly emarginated -, the
pods ftand on fnort hairy peduncles, and are
twifted in a contrary direction to the fun's diur-
nal motion.
LEPIDIUM. Gen. pL 801.
Silicida emarginata, cordata, polyfperma. valvulis
carinatis, contrariis.
iatifoUumi. LEPIDIUM foliis ovato-lanceolatis integris ferra-
tis. Sp.pl. 899. {Ger. em. 241./. 2. Moris, hift.
f. 3. /. 21./. i.medii ordinis adfinijlram. Fet.herb-
t. 48./. 10. cum char aci ere)
Dittander or Pepperwort. AngUs.
Upon the fea coaft, as about the callle of JVeems,
in Fife/hire, &c. ^. Vil.
The ftalk is a yard high or more, ered and branch-
ed : the leaves are firm, fmooth, and finely fer-
rated, growing alternately without order, upon
the ftalk and branches : the flowers are exceed-
ingly fmall for the fize of the plant, and white,
very numerous, and grow in cluftered panicles :
the Silicula or feed-velTc-l is heart-fnap'd, the Style
fhort, the Stigma globular.
The young leaves are eaten fometimes in faliads;
they have a pungent acrid tafte, and arereckon'd
antifcorhutic.
Z 2 LEPIDIUM
branched : the leaves are Icfliie, oval-lanceolate,
and fparingly dented on the edges : the flowers
are white, and grow in a cluftcr at the top of the
flalk : the petals are llighcly emarginated -, the
pods ftand on fnort hairy peduncles, and are
twifted in a contrary direction to the fun's diur-
nal motion.
LEPIDIUM. Gen. pL 801.
Silicida emarginata, cordata, polyfperma. valvulis
carinatis, contrariis.
iatifoUumi. LEPIDIUM foliis ovato-lanceolatis integris ferra-
tis. Sp.pl. 899. {Ger. em. 241./. 2. Moris, hift.
f. 3. /. 21./. i.medii ordinis adfinijlram. Fet.herb-
t. 48./. 10. cum char aci ere)
Dittander or Pepperwort. AngUs.
Upon the fea coaft, as about the callle of JVeems,
in Fife/hire, &c. ^. Vil.
The ftalk is a yard high or more, ered and branch-
ed : the leaves are firm, fmooth, and finely fer-
rated, growing alternately without order, upon
the ftalk and branches : the flowers are exceed-
ingly fmall for the fize of the plant, and white,
very numerous, and grow in cluftered panicles :
the Silicula or feed-velTc-l is heart-fnap'd, the Style
fhort, the Stigma globular.
The young leaves are eaten fometimes in faliads;
they have a pungent acrid tafte, and arereckon'd
antifcorhutic.
Z 2 LEPIDIUM
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1 > (413) |
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| Description | Vol. I. |
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| Shelfmark | Blair.153 |
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| Description | By John Lightfoot. 2 volumes. (Bound together with vol. 2 beginning at p. 545.) |
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| Shelfmark | Blair.153-154 |
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