. Flora scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides . llalk is about ten inches high:the fpike is about three inches long, cylindricaland thick ki with numerous fliiall whitifh de-flexcd flowers : the Bratlece are lanceolate, andrather longer than the germen : the petals arewhitC;, and connive into the form of a galea^ thefide ones longed : the lip of the ncifarium isgreen, and divided into three acute fegments, themiddle one largefl; the fpur is white, about halfthe length of the germen^ obtufe at iho, end, andrecurved, but n
. Flora scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides . llalk is about ten inches high:the fpike is about three inches long, cylindricaland thick ki with numerous fliiall whitifh de-flexcd flowers : the Bratlece are lanceolate, andrather longer than the germen : the petals arewhitC;, and connive into the form of a galea^ thefide ones longed : the lip of the ncifarium isgreen, and divided into three acute fegments, themiddle one largefl; the fpur is white, about halfthe length of the germen^ obtufe at iho, end, andrecurved, but not didymctis^ as the generic cha-racter requires. 3. SATYRIUM bulbis fibrofis, foliis ovatis radica-jibus, fioribus fecundis. Sp. pi. 1339. {Gcr. em^227. /. 4. Loes. py>iff 2 10. /. 6^, HdUer. tab, 22. ^rew. Lit. Norimb. annc. , 52. p, 409, /. 6, f. 7. bona, ^ Jig, noft.)Creeping Satyrion. Anglis, In old mofty woods, but very rare. We found itgrowing amongd the Hypna^ in an old fhadymoift hanging birch v;ood, called, in the Erje,language, Ca-bue^ cr Teliow-hill^ facing the houfe of xxn. a//y^^6^/??2^ ?^AX^/Ui .J^. 520 GYNANDRIA DIANDKIA, 521 of Mr. Mackeyizle^ of Dundonald, about twomiles from the head of Little-Locb-Brooiny onthe weftern coaft of Rofs/hire. It has alfo beenfound in a wood oppofite to Moy-hall^ on thefouth fide of the road to Invernejs^ as we havebeen informed by Dr. Hope^ %. roots are round, annular, and branched, andcreep under the mofs, throwing out new run-ners or fhoots : the flalk is about a foot high,creL% and hairy, efpecially towards the top :the leaves art oval, nervous, have broad folia-ceous pedicles, and grow near x\\t bafe of thellalk. Thofe nerves are generally live in num-ber, but fometimes feven, branched from i\\q fidesand reticulated with veins which are often of afufcous colour. The flowers are a little hairy,or pubefcent, whitifh or draw-coloured, andgrow in a fpike, from fifteen to twenty in num-ber,
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