l^ENTANDRIA-MONOGYNIA. Samolus. 323 

 118. SAMOLUS. Brook-weed. 



Z-inn. Gen. 89. Juss.97. Ft. Br. 250. Br. I'r. 428. Tourn t 60 

 Lam. t.lOl. Gcertn. t.30. ^• 



Nat. Orel. Precice, Linn. 21. Akin \o LysimachicE, Juss. 34. 

 Cal inferior of 1 leaf; tube hemispherical, closely investing 

 the lower halt of the germen; margin in 5 deep, triangu? 

 lar, equal, permanent segments. Cor. of 1 petal, funnel- 

 shaped; tube wide, as long as the calyx; limb spreading, 

 m 5 deep, obtuse segments, with 5 small, intermediate, 

 conyergmg scales at their base. Filam. from the middle 

 ot the tube, opposite to the segments of the limb, awl- 

 shaped, short. Anth. sheltered by the scales of the corolla, 

 roundish, 2-lobed. Germ, superior, invested with the 

 tube of the calyx, nearly globular. Style erect, short, co- 

 umnar. Stigma capitate. Caps, globular, of 1 cell ; its 

 lower half closely invested with the tube of the calyx • 

 upper opening with 5 recurved valves. Seeds numerous' 

 small, angular, attached to the globose, central, uncon- 

 nected receptacle. 

 Herbaceous. Leaves alternate, undivided ; tapering at the 

 base mto footstalks. Fl. terminal, racemose, bracteated. 

 white. 



This genus has marks of considerable affinity to Montia, 

 n. 62, and therefore to Jussieu's 86th order, Portulacece. 

 The apparently half inferior situation of the germen has 

 caused some doubts in the minds of the ablest botanists, 

 whether it could be referred to the Lysimachice, now 

 termed Primulacece. But that part is surely to be reckoned 

 superior; nor, were it odierwise, is such a difference 

 always essential; witness Vaccinium and Erica. See 

 Grammar 112, 2 U, 216. 



1. S. Valerandi. Common Brook-weed. Water 

 Pimpernel. 



Leaves obovate, obtuse. Clusters corymbose, many-flowered. 

 Bracteas solitary, in the middle of each partial stalk. 



S. Valerandi. Linn. Sp. PL 243. mild. v. I. 927. Fl. Br. 239 

 Engl. Bot. V. 10. t. 703. Br. Pr. 428. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t. 20 

 Hook. Scot. 80. FL Dan. t. 198. Rail Syn. 283. Bauh Hist 

 V.3. 780. f. Ehrh.Phyt. 92. 



S. n.707. liall.Hht.v. 1.312. 



Anagallis aquatica rotundifolia. Qer. Em. 620. f. 



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