PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Anagallis. 281 



thin and pellucid, splitting horizontally into 2 hemisphe- 

 rical valves. Seeds numerous, angular, abrupt, covering 

 a large, central, orbicular, pitted, unconnected receptacle. 

 Herbaceous, or slightly shrubby, annual or perennial, 

 smooth, except the corolla and stamens. Leaves mostly 

 opposite, often dotted, as are also the stems. Fl. elegant; 

 scarlet, blue, or pink ; on simple axillary stalks. 



1. A. arvensis. Common Scarlet Pimpernel. 



Leaves ovate ; dotted beneath. Stem procumbent. Corolla 

 minutely notched. 



A. arvensis. Linn. Sp. PL 211. Willd. v. 1. 822, (5. FL Br. 230. 



Engl. Bot. v.S. t.529. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1./.12. Hook. Scot. 72. 



FL Dan. t. 88. 

 A. n. 625. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 276. 

 A. flore phoeniceo. Rail Sijn. 282. 

 A. mas. Ger. Em. 617. f. Matth. Valgr. v. 1. 569. /. Camer. 



Epit. 394. /. Brunf. Herb. v. 1 . 238./. 

 /3. A. phcenicea, foliis amplioribus, ex adverso quaternis. Pluk. 



Aim. 29. Rail Syn. 282. 



In fields and gardens, common. 



Annual. June — August. 



Root small. Stem branched from the lower part, often dotted with 

 purple, more or less procumbent, square. Leaves sessile j in 

 /3 four together 5 ovate, many-ribbed ; dotted with purple at the 

 back. Flower-stalks angular, longer than the leaves, twisted 

 and recurved after flowering. Segments of the calyx lanceolate, 

 pointed, keeled, membranous at the edges. Cor. bright scarlet, 

 with a violet-coloured mouth ; its edges finely crenate, or mi- 

 nutely fringed with glands. Stam. purple, hairy j dilated and 

 smooth at the base. Anth. yellow, heart-shaped. Style purple, 

 permanent. Stigma capitate. Caps, pale and transparent, the 

 size of a pea, separating all round, the valves marked with 

 some indication of longitudinal separations, which seldom take 

 effect. Seeds roughish, abrupt externally, each with a central 

 dot. 



The beautiful flowers close at the approach of rain, as farmers and 

 shepherds in general well know. They are very rarely found of 

 a brilliant white. 



2. A. ccerulea. Blue Pimpernel. 



Leaves ovate, or somewhat lanceolate; dotted beneath. Stem 

 erect. Corolla strongly notched. 



A. caerulea. Schreb. Lips. 5. Abbot 46. Engl. Bot. v. 26. t. 1823. 

 Comp. 36. Hook. Scot. 72. Fl. Dan. t. 1570. 



