OCTANDRIA—TETRAGYNIA. Adoxa. 241 



with 4 furrows. Styles 4, spreading, shorter than the 

 stam. Stigmas oblong, downy at the upper side. Berry 

 nearly globose, with 4 blunt angles, somewhat depressed, 

 of 4 cells. Seeds several, globose, attached, in 2 rows, to 

 a central receptacle. 

 Herbaceous, perennial. Stem simple, bearing 4 or more 

 simple, entire, pointed leaves^ in a whorl at the top, with 

 a central green Jloxver. 



1. P. quadrifolia. Common Herb Paris. 

 Leaves ovate, about four. 



P. quadrifolia. Linn. Sp. PL 526. mild. v. 2. 47 1 . FI. Br. 431 . 

 Engl. Bot. v.\.t. 7. Hook. Scot. 122. Fl. Dan. t. 139. Redout. 

 Liliac.t. 226. Bull. Fr. t. ] 19. 



P. n. 1006. Hall. Hist. v. 1.429. 



Herba Paris. RaiiSyn.264. Matth. Valgr. v. 2.439. f. Camer. 

 Epit. 835. /. Dod. Pempt. 444. /. Ger. Em. 405. /. Lob. 

 Ic. 267./. Garid. Prov. 227. t. 49. Tillands Ic. 32. f. 



Solarium quadrifolium bacciferum. Bauh. Pin. 167. 



Aconitum pardalianches, Fuchs. Hist.B7 -f. Ic.AS.f. 



A. monococcuni. Cord. Hist. 152. 2.f. 



Uva lupina, seu Aster. Trag. Hist. 307./. 308. 



In groves and shady places, but not very common. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root creeping. Herb smooth. Stem about a foot high, round, 

 naked, except at the top. Leaves broadly ovate, or elliptical, 

 acute, pliant, smooth, with 3 principal ribs, and many veins, 

 stalked, spreading horizontally, usually 4, rarely 3, or 5, of a 

 dull green. Floicer-stalk upright, angular, simple, single- 

 flowered, about half the length of the leaves. Calyx-leaves 3- 

 ribbed. Petals narrow and acute. Anth. and styles yellowish. 

 Germen violet. Every other part of the flower is green, and its 

 whole appearance more singular than beautiful. Berry purplish- 

 black, reported to be narcotic and dangerous. The roots, ac- 

 cording to some apothecaries, quoted by Linnaeus in Fl. Lapp., 

 are emetic, acting like Ipecacuanha, but requiring to be given 

 in twice the quantity. 



Another species has lately been discovered in Nepaul. See Rees's 

 Cyclopcedia, v. 26, Paris polyphylla. 



222. ADOXA. Moschatell. 



Linn. Gen. 198. Juss. 309. Fl. Br. 432. Lam. t. 320. Gczrtn. 



f. 112. 

 Moschatellina. Tourn. t. 68. 



Nat. Ord. Succulentcje. Linn. 13. Saxifragce. inss.S'^. See 

 n. 229, 230. 



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