PENTANDRIA. 



ORDER 6. 



SI 



GREAT SUN-DEW. Of this genus Professor iiexaoy- 

 Martyn enumerates nine species, three of which are * 



of English growth. These plants are of a small size six PlbUlla - 

 and singular structure. The leaves of most of the 

 species, next the root, are furnished with glandulous 

 hairs on the upper surface, and fringed round the 

 edge ; these hairs have each a small globule of pellucid 

 liquor like dew, continuing even in the hottest part of 

 the day, and in the fullest exposure to the sun ; hence 

 the English name San-dew. This species is found 

 wild in Norfolk, and is common in some other coun- 

 ties. This is the only English Genus of this Order. 



ORDER 7- 



NIA. 

 ManyPistilla- 



MOUSE-TA 1L is a native of gravelly corn-fields, ro lygy- 

 not unfrequent about London. The flowers are ex- 

 tremely small, and are succeeded by long slender 

 spikes of seeds resembling the tail of a mouse, whence 



made to prevent any person from watering Hemp or Flax in any 

 stream, river, or common pond, where beasts were accustomed 

 to drink, on pain of forfeiting, for every time, twenty shillings ; 

 and this law is still in force, yet it is often infringed, as flax 

 steeped in running water is always of a whiter colour and much 

 softer, and is said to be stronger and more durable than that 

 which has been steeped in pits, or pools, of stagnant water. 

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