DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Sibthorpia. 143 



ticran Correspondence, v. 2. Dr. Wahlenbei-g has im- 

 proved the description of the Jhiit, and 1 have profited 

 by his hibours. "^I'hey sanction the Linniean opinion of 

 a two-fold cahjx, the inferior one serving as a protecting 

 covering to ihe fruit. 



1. L. borcalis. Two-flowered Linnaea. 



L. borealis, Linn. Sp. PL 880. Fl. Suec. 2 1 9. ^. 1 . Fl. Lapp. cd. 



2. 214.M2./.4. mild. V.3. 340. FLBr.666. Engl. Bot.v.7 . 



/. 433. Tr.ofLinn.Soc.v.3.oo3. n'iih.556. Hook. Scot. \90. 



Wahlenh. Lapp. 1 70. ^ 9./. 3. Fl. Dan. t. 3. Ehrh. Phijt. 5. 



L. n. 299. Hall. Hist. V. 1. 131. 



Campanula serpyllifolia. Bauh. Prodr. 35. f. Ritdb. Act. Suec. 



for 1720. OG.t. 1. 

 Nummulaiia Norwegica repens, folio dentato, floribus geminis. 



Petiv. Cent. 8. 7 6. n. 787. 

 In dry stony shady fir woods among the mountains of Scotland. 

 First found in an old fir wood at Inglismaldie on the borders of 

 Mearnsshire, in 1795. Prof. James Beaitie,jun. Dr. Hooker 

 mentions several similar stations in the Highlands or their 

 borders. 

 Perennial. May, June. 



Root fibrous. Stems traihng and creeping, forming broad leafy 

 patches, branched^ woody, nearly round 3 the young shoots hairy 

 and leafy. Leaves opposite, on footstalks about half their own 

 length, roundish, or ovate, mostly bluntish, veiny, firm ; crenate 

 in the forepart ; slightly hairy, and of a full green, above ; paler 

 beneath. Stipulas none. Flowering branches axillary, erect, 

 about a finger's length, simple, except at the summit, where 

 they are cloven, bearing two elegant, pendulous, flesh-coloured 

 flowers, said to be very fragrant at night, with the scent of Mea- 

 dow-sweet. A pair of very small leaves stand at the origin of 

 the partm\Jlou)er-stalks, and there is often a larger pair or two 

 at the lower part of each common stalk, or branch. Corolla va- 

 riegated internally with rose-colour and yellow. 

 Linnseus describes 2, or rarely all 3, of the cells of they7-MJ^, as per- 

 fecting their seed. Wahlenberg asserts that one only comes to 

 maturity. 

 Such is the " little northern plant, long overlooked, depressed, 

 abject, flowering early," which Linnaeus selected to transmit his 

 own name to posterity. Few could have been better chosen ; 

 and the progress of practical botany in Britain seems to be 

 marked by the more frequent discovery of the Linncea. 



313. SIBTHORPIA. Sibthorpia. 



Linn. Gen. 320. Juss, 99. Lam. t. 535. GcErtn.t.55. 

 Nat. Ord. Personatcc. Linn. 40. Scr aphid ar ice. Juss. 40. 

 See Gramrnar 101. 



