226 TETRANDRIA— TETRAGYNIA. Ilex. 



Alsine polygonoides tenuifolia, flosculis ad longitudinem caulis 



velut in spicam dispositis nostra. Rail Syn. 346. Pluk.Almag. 22. 



Phyt. t. Ib.f. 3. Brit. Mus. H. Sice. v. 95.foL35. 

 Herniaria angustissimo gramineo folio, erecta. Magnol Hort, 



Monsp. 97. t. 15. 

 Polygonum angustissimo gramineo folio, erectum. Magnol Monsp. 



211. 



On the sea coast, very rare. 



Found by Plukenet about Boston, Lincolnshire. Pluk. Almag. On 

 Hounslow heath, by Mr. Doody. Dill, in Ray's Synopsis. No 

 other botanist has met with this plant on Hounslow heath ; and 

 the late Sir Joseph Banks, who often examined the coast near 

 Boston, was persuaded that Bupleurum tenuissimum had been 

 mistaken for the Buffonia. Yet Plukenet and Dillenius cer- 

 tainly knew the latter perfectly, and the original specimen in 

 the British Museum is right. 



Annual. June. 



Root slender, fibrous. Stem smooth, round, alternately branched, 

 a span high. Leaves awl-shaped, 3-ribbed, smooth, combitied 

 by their broad sheathing bases, which are minutely fringed. Fl. 

 small, white, solitary, erect, on terminal or axillary roughish 

 stalks. Leaves of the calyx each with 3 close ribs, and broad 

 membranous margins. 



Sauvages named this genus after his great 'countryman BuffoUy 

 who had indeed very slender pretensions to a botanical honour j 

 a circumstance supposed to have been indicated by Linnaeus in 

 the specific name, tenuifolia. 



TETRANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. 

 80. ILEX. Holly. 



Linn. Gen. 67. Juss.S79. Fl.Br. 192. Lam. t.89. 

 Aquifolium. Tourn. t. 371. Duham. Arh. v. 1 . 59. 



Nat. Ord. Dumosce. Linn. 43. Wiamni. Juss. 95. See 



Grammar 182. 

 Cal. inferior, small, of 1 leaf, with 4 small teeth, permanent. 



Cor. wheel-shaped, in 4 deep, elliptical, spreading, con- 



