226 TETRANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Buffonia. 



spreading or prostrate, round, leafy, hardly subdivided. Leaves 

 alternate, variously cut, on short stalks, with large deeply cut 

 stipulas. Fl. green, in axillary, hairy tufts, still shorter than the 

 footstalks. The whole plant is more or less hairy, and in fla- 

 vour and scent approaches its natural ally, Burnet. Like most 

 other plants which have obtained an empirical reputation for 

 calculous complaints, it is astringent, and perhaps slightly mu- 

 cilaginous. 

 The stamens, generally 4, are often solitary. In other respects it 

 is altogether an Alchemilla ; and, like A. vulgaris, has often 2 

 pistils. 



TETRANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



79. BUFFONIA. Buffonia. 

 Linn.Gen.S5. Juss. 300. Fl. Br. 191. Lam. t. 87. Gcertn.t.\29. 

 Nat. Ord. Caryophylleae. Linn. 22. Juss. 82. N.63 the same. 

 Cat. inferior, of 4 upright, awl-shaped, keeled, equal leaves, 



membranous at their edges. Cor. of 4 elliptic-oblong, 



undivided, equal, upright petals, shorter than the calyx. 



Filam. awl-shaped, smooth, shorter than the petals. Anth. 



roundish, of 2 cells. Germ, superior, obovate, compressed. 



Styles 2, short and distant, erect. Stigmas capitate. Caps. 



oval, compressed, of one cell, and 2 valves. Seeds 2, large, 



oval, compressed, tuberculated, inserted into the base of 



the capsule. 

 Habit of an Arenaria, with awl-shaped leaves. Nearly 



smooth in every part. Only 1 species. 



1. B. tenuifolia. Slender Buffonia. 



B. tenuifolia. With. 205. Fl. Br. 191. Engl. Bot. v. 19. t. 1313. 

 Bufonia tenuifolia. Linn. Sp. PI. 179. mild. v. 1. 700. Huds. 72. 



Hull 38. 

 Alsine polygonoides tenuifolia, flosculis ad longitudinem caulis 



velutin spicam dispositis nostra. Rail Syn.346. Pluk. Almag.22. 



Phyt. t. 75. f. 3. Brit. Mus. H. Sice. v. 95.fol. 35. 

 Herniaria angustissimo gramineo folio, erecta. Magnol Hort. 



Monsp. 97. t. 15. 

 Polygonum angustissimo gramineo folio, erectum. Magnol Monsp. 



211. 



