280 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Anagallls 



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thin and pellucid, splitting horizontally into 2 hemisphe- 

 rical valves. Seeds numerous, angular, abrupt, covering 

 a large, central, orbicular, pitted, unconnected recej)tacle. 

 Herbaceous, or slightly shrubby, annual or perennial, 

 smooth, except the corolla and stamens. Leaves mostly 

 opposite, often dotted, as are also the stejns. 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, /3. FL Br. 230. 



EngL BoL v. 8. t. 529. CurU Lond.fasc. 1. 1. 12.' Hook. ScoL 72. 



Ft. Dan. t. 88. 

 A. n. 625. HaU. Hist v. I. 276. 

 A. flore phoeniceo. Raii Syn. 282. 

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



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

 /3. A. phoenicea, foliis amplioribus, ex adverse 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 ; in 

 /3 four together ; 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 ; 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. ccEVulea. Blue Pimpernel. 



Leaves ovate, or somewhat lanceolate; dotted beneath. Stem 

 erect. Corolla strongly notched. 



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

 Comp. 36. Hook. Scot. 72. Ft. Dan. t. 15/0. 



