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

SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLuA. ^^^5
the rays of the flower are numerous, narrov,
and terminated with three acute dents : the down
of the feeds is reddifh, each hair of it finely
dented on one fide.
The root is acrid, bitter, and aromatic : a con-
ferve of it Hands recommended in afthn^as, and
other diforders of the breall and lungs, as good
to promote expeftoration. The decoclion of it
in water, or an infufion in wine, or a fpiriruons
extraft, are alfo cxtcll'd as a (lomachic and fu-
dorific, and are therefore prefcrib'd in crudities
of the ftomach, bad digctlions, the hypochon-
dria, and contagious difcafes. Outwardly ap-
plied, a decc6lion of it is faid to cure the itch.
Bruifed and macerated in urine, with balls of
allies and whortle berries, it dyes a blue colour.
DORONlCUiM. Gen. pL ^S9'
Recept. nudum. Pappus limplex. Calycis fquama^
duplicis ordinis sequales, difco longiores. Sent.
radii nuda pappoque deftituta.
>ardalian- DORONICUM foliis cordatis obtufis denticulatis,
chs* 1. radicalibus petiolatis, caulinis amplexicaulibus.
Sp. pi. 1247. (Ger. em. 762./. 7. Moris hijl. f. 7.
/. 24./. 4. Miller ic. 128. Blachvell t. 239.)
Great Leopard's Bane, or Wolf's-Bane, Anglis.
We obferved it in feveral places in the lowlands,
as about Hoddam caftle, in Annandalc^ &c. bur
always near houfes, fo that w^e fufpecl it not to
be indigenous, but as it fcems to be naturalized