TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Sanguisorba. 217 



as long as the stam. permanent. Sti<;ma simple. Caps. 

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

 nous. Seeds numerous, minute, angular, covering the 

 large, central, globose, pitted receptacle. 

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

 approach Anagallis ; but the tubular corolla, and naked 

 stamens, keep Centuncidus distinct. 



I.e. minimus. Small Chaff weed. Bastard Pimpernel. 



Flowers sessile. Corolla without glands at the base. 



C. minimus. Linn. Sp. PL 16f). Willd. v. I. 653. Fl. Br. 185. 



Engl. Dot. v.S.t.^3\. Curt. Land, fuse . 3. t. 11. Dicks. H. Sice. 



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

 Centimculus. DHL in Raii Sijn. 1. HalL Hist.n. 627. v. 1. 278. 

 Anagallis paludosa minima, foliis rotiindis alternatis. VailL Par. 1 2 



t.4.f.2. 

 Anagailidastrum exig-uum, foliis lanceolatis alternis, (lore albo fu- 



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

 Alsine palustris minima, flosculis albis, fructii coriandri exiguo. 



Mentz, PugilJ. t. 7. 



On sandy watery heaths. 



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

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

 Eiist Heath, near Lowestoft. Mr. Lilli/ IVigg. Edgefield Com- 

 mon, near Holt, Norfolk. Rev. R. B. Francis. Near Ban try, 

 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 puraila, Swartz hid. 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. Sciiticoscc. Linn. 35. Rosacccc. 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- 

 mcn inferior, quadrangular. Style thread-shaped, nearly 



