PENTANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Myosurus. 125 



1. M. minhnus. Common Mouse-tail. 



M. minimus. Linn. Sp. PL 407. mild. v. \. 1568. H.Br.348. 



Engl. Boi. V. 7. t. 435. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t. 26. Hook. Scot.9S. 



Fl.Dan. t.406. 

 M. n. 1159. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 67. 

 Myosuros. Rail Sijn. 251. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2.512./. Lob. Ic. 



440. f. 

 Holosteo affinis, Cauda muris. Bauh. Pin. 190. 

 Cauda muris. Ger. Em. 426./. Tillands Ic. t. 108. 

 C. murina. Dod. Pempt. 112./. 



In cornfields, on a gravelly soil. 



Annual. May. 



Root small, fibrous. Herb smooth, varying much in luxuriance. 

 Leaves numerous, nearly erect, from 1 to 2 inches long, rather 

 fleshy, narrow, single-ribbed, bluntish ; tapering at the base irito 

 footstalks nearly of their own length. Flower-stalks several, 

 taller than the leaves, round, each bearing a small upright Jlower. 

 Petals pale yellow. Germens 2 or 3 hundred, green, forming a 

 long spike, raised much above the other parts of the flower, and 

 not unaptly answering to the generic name ; especially when 

 the seeds ripen. 



