PENTANDRIA-POLYGYNIA. Myosurus. 125 



1, M. 7nhwnus. Common Mouse-tail. 



M. minimus. Linn. Sp. PL 407. mild. v. 1 . 1568. Fl. Br. 348. 



Engl. Bot. V. 7. t.46o. Curt. Loud.fasc. 4. t.26. Hook. Scot. 98. 



FL Dan. t. 406. 

 M. 11.1159. HalLHisLv.2.67. 

 Myosuros. Raii Syn. 25 I . Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 5 1 2. /". Lob. Ir. 



440./. 

 Holosteo affinisj Cauda muris. Bauh. Pin. 190. 

 Cauda muris. Ger. Em. 426. f. Tillands Ic. t.\08. 

 C. murina. Dad. Pempt. 112. f. 



In cornfields, on a gravelly soil. 



Annual. May. 



Root small, fibrous, f/eri smooth, vjn-ying much in luxuriance. 

 Leaves numerous, nearly erect, from I to 2 inches long, rather 

 fleshy, narrow, single-ribbed, bluntish ; tapering at the base into 

 footstalks nearly of their own length. Flower-stalks several, 

 taller than the leaves, round, each bearing a small upright Jlower. 

 Petals pale yellov.'. Germens 2 or 3 hundred, green, forming a 

 long spike, raised much above the other parts of the flower, and 

 not unaptly answering to the generic name , especially when 

 the seeds ripen. 



