TETRANDRIA-DIGYNIA. Buffonia. 225 



In sandy or gravelly fields, especially when fallow, as well as on 

 heathy banks. 



Annual. May — October. 



Root small, fibrous. Stems numerous, about a finger's length 

 spreadmg 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, r o ; 



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

 IS altogetner an Alchemilla ; and, like A. vulgaris, has often 2 

 pistils, ° ' 



TETRANDRIyl DIGYNIA, 

 79. BUFFONIA. Buffonia. 



Linn. Gen. 65. Juss. 300. Fl. Br. \9l. Lam. t. 87. Gcprtn. t.\29. 



Nat. Ord. Caryophijlle^. Linn. 22. Juss. 82. iV. 63 the same. 



Cal inferior, of 4 upright, awl-shaped, keeled, equal leaves, 

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

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

 i'^ztewi. 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 ofan^r^Tzon a, with awl-shaped /^«i;^5. Nearly smooth 

 in every part. Only 1 species. 



1. Vi. tenmfolia. Slender Buffonia. 



B. tenuifolia. With.205. Fl.Br.\9\. Engl. Bot v 19 f 1313 

 Bufonia. Linn. Sp. Pl.\79. mild. v. \. 700. Hud3. 72. Hull 3S 



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