DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Limosella. 514 

 314. LIMOSELLA. Mudwort. 



Linn. Gen. 320. Juss.96. Fl.Br.668. Br. Prodr, v. I. 443. Lam. 

 t.535. Gcertn.t. 50. 



Plantaginella. Dill. Nov. Gen. 1 13. t. 6. 



Nat. Orel. Personatce. Linn. 40. ScropJmlarice. Juss. 40. 

 See Grammar 101. 



Cal. turbinate; border in 5 deep, lanceolate, acute, upright, 

 nearly equal segments. Cor. somewhat bell-shaped; tube 

 cylindrical, the length of the calyx; limb in 5 deep, ovate, 

 spreading, slightly unequal segments, the 2 uppermost 

 concave, lower one smallest. Filam. from the mouth of 

 the tube, awl-shaped, almost equal, shorter than the limb, 

 sheltered by its 2 upper segments, but spreading slightly 

 laterally, and converging in pairs. AtitJi. roundish, of 

 2 lobes. Germ, ovate. Style tapering, short. Stigma 

 capitate, globose, cloven. Caps, ovate, of 2 cells, and 2 

 valves, the partitions narrow, from the inflexed margins 

 of the valves. Seeds numerous, oblong, furrowed, trans- 

 versely wrinkled, covering a large, ovate, central receptacle. 



The partitions, at first connected with the receptacle.^ sepa- 

 rate from it as the capsule advances to maturity, so that 

 the latter finally consists of but one cell ; which is the' 

 case in Verbascum, and more or less with many other 

 seed-vessels similarly constructed. No doubt can remain 

 as to the natural order of Limosella ; nor do I perceive 

 the propriety of considering it as belonging to the Precice 

 of Linnaeus, the Lysimachice of Jussieu, though those 

 great authorities are against me, and some later ones have 

 traced an affinity to that tribe in the seed-vessel, which 

 is surely altogether that of the ScropJmlarince of my learn- 

 ed friend Mr. Brown, who appears to have taken the most 

 correct view of the subject. 



This genus consists of a very few herbaceous, creeping, 

 marsh plants, with simple, entire, stalked, linear or spa- 

 tulate, aggregate leaves, and small, solitary, axillary, pale 

 Jlawers, on simple naked stalks. 



1 . L. aquatica. Common Mudwort. 



Leaves lanceolate, somewhat spatulate. Footstalks twice 



as long as the flower-stalks. 

 L. aquatica. Linn. Sp. PL 881. Willd. v.3. 341 . FL Br. 668. 



Engl. Bot. V. 5. t. 357. Hook. Lond. t. 62. Scot. 190. FL Dan. 



t.69. 

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