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globose, in the tube of the cor. Style cylindrical, erect, 

 as long as the stam. permanent. Stigma simple. Caps. 

 globose, of one cell, bursting all round, almost membra- 

 nous. Seeds numerous, minute, angular, covering the 

 large, central, globose, pitted receptacle. 

 Thejlowers are said to be occasionally 5-cleft, by which they 

 approach Anagallis s but the tubular corolla, and naked 

 stamens, keep Centunculus distinct. 



1 . C. minimus. Small Chaff-weed. Bastard Pimpernel. 

 Flowers sessile. Corolla without glands at the base. 



C. minimus. Linn. Sp. PI. 169. Wild. v. 1. 653. Fl. Br. 185. 

 Engl. Bot. v.8. t.53\. Curt. Lond.fasc.3. t.ll. Dicks. H. Sice. 

 fasc.7.2. Don H.Br. 179. Hook.Scot.54. Fl. Dan. t.\77. 



Centunculus. Dill, in Raii Syn. 1 . Hall. Hist. n. 627. v. 1 . 278. 



Anagallis paludosa minima, foliis rotundis alternatis. Vaill. Par. 12, 

 L4./.2. 



Anagallidastrum exiguum, foliis lanceolatis alternis, flore albo fu- 

 gaci et vix conspicuo. Mich. Gen. 14. t. 18./. 2. 



Alsine palustris minima, flosculis albis, fructu coriandri exiguo. 

 Mentz. Pugill. t. 7. 



On sandy watery heaths. 



At Chisselhurst, Kent. Dillenius. On many heaths around Lon- 

 don, and near Ampthill, Bedfordshire. Fl. Br. and Engl. Bot. On 

 East Heath, near Lowestoft. Mr. Lilly Wigg. Edgefield Com- 

 mon, near Holt, Norfolk. Rev. R. B. Francis. Near Bantry, 

 Ireland. Mr. J. T. Mackay. In the lowlands of Scotland. 

 Hooker. 



Annual. June, July. 



Very diminutive, simple or branched, from 1 to 2 inches high. 

 Leaves alternate, or nearly opposite, sessile, ovate, entire, smooth, 

 2 or 3 lines long. FL axillary, solitary, sessile, white or reddish, 

 expanding in bright sunshine only, and of very short duration. 

 Anagallis pumila, Swartz Ind. Occ. v. 1 . 345, is made a second 

 species of this genus by Mr. Brown, and, I believe, very justly. 



74. SANGUISORBA. Burnet. 



Linn. Gen. 58. Juss. 336. FL Br. 186. Lam. t. 85. 



Nat. Ord. Senticosa?. Linn. 35. Rosacea. Juss. 92. See 

 n. 78; also Grammar 171. 



Cat. superior, of 1 leaf, in 4? deep, equal, ovate, spreading, 

 coloured segments. Cor. none. Filam. from the base of 

 the calyx, opposite to its segments, and nearly as long, 

 dilated upward, smooth. Anth. roundish, of 2 cells. Ger- 

 men inferior, quadrangular. Style thread-shaped, nearly 



