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

SYNQENKSiA : POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA.
we thought it deferved a place in this coUedion.
if.v. vi.
The root is thick, jointed, creeping, and barbed
with many fibres : the llaik is two or three feet
high, hairy, furrow'd, and divided towards the
top into three or four branches, each terminated
with one large yellow radiated flower : the leaves
are rather foft and ha.ry, the radical ones
obtufely heart- Ih aped, and fupported on foot-
ilalks; thofe on the ftalk but few in number,
embracing it at their bale, and of a long oval
• form : the fcales of the calyx are about 26 in
number, compofed of a double feries, are nar-
row, lanceolate, and as long as the rays of the
flower : the female florets which compoie the
rays are ftreak'd with green lines, and about 22
in number : the hermaphrodite ones'tif the difc
are about 178: the feeds of the rays are nearly
triangular, ftreaked with ten lines, and are del-
titute of down : thofe of the difc are roundifh,
hairy, and crowned with a down, which is
ilightly plumofe : the receptacle is convex and
hairy. From the burfl:ing of the Anthers to
the ripening of the {tt^i. takes up the fpace of
one month.
Many writers have fuppofed tlie root to be poifon-
ous, and tiiat it would deftroy wolves, dogs,
and other animals. ' Others have reckoned it an
antidote to poifon ; but the prefent praflicc rc-
ie<5lsit. -
BELLIS.