184 APOCYNEjE. [Vinca. 



4. P. secunda, Linn. Serrated Winter-green. Flowers all 

 leaning one way, racemed ; leaves ovate, serrated. Br. Fl. 1. 

 p. 186. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 257. E. Bot. t. 207. 



Rare in Ireland. In a Mountain Glen near Garvagh, County of Derry; 

 Mr. I). Moore. Fl. July. %. — Stems rather straggling, branched. 

 Peduncles 4 — 5 inches high, with several oval scales or bracteas. 

 Flowers small, greenish-white. Petals erect. Style much protruded. 

 Stigma 5-lobed. 



2. Monotropa. Linn. Bird's-nest. 



Perianth single, of 4 — 5 leaves, cucullate at the base. Anthers 

 1-celled, 2-lipped. Capsule superior, 4 — 5-celled. Seeds 

 numerous, invested with a long arillus. — Named from /.iovos, 

 one, and -rpcTrw, to turn, the flowers all pointing one way. 



Decandria. Monogynia. 



1. M. Hypopitys, Linn. Yellow Bird's-nest. Flowers in a 

 drooping cluster ; lateral ones with eight stamens, terminal one 

 with ten. Br. Fl. 1. p. 186. E. FL v. ii. p. 249. E. Bot. t. 

 713. 



Beech and Fir-woods, where the soil is dry. St. Catherine s woods, 

 County of Dublin, and Moore Abbey, County of Kildare ; Doctor 

 Wade. Fl. June, July. %. — Plant succulent of a uniform yellowish 

 colour. Stem five to eight inches high. Leaves resembling scales. 



Ord. 50. APOCYNE.E. Br. Apocynum Family. 



Calyx of 5 divisions, persistent. Corolla monopetalous, hy- 

 pogynous, regular, 5-lobed, with an imbricated aestivation, 

 deciduous. Stamens 5, situated on the corolla, and alternate 

 with the segments of the limb : filaments distinct : anthers 

 2-celled, opening longitudinally ; pollen granular, immediately 

 applied to the stigma. Ovaries 2 or 1, 2-celled, generally 

 many-seeded : styles 2 or 1 : stigma 1. Pericarp a follicle or 

 capsule, drupe or berry, double or single. Seeds generally 

 without albumen. Embryo foliaceous. Plumule inconspicu- 

 ous. — Trees, shrubs for herbaceous plants J, often milky. Leaves 

 opposite, sometimes verticillate, rarely scattered, entire, frequently 

 with interpetiolary cilia which arc glandular. Inflorescence some- 

 what corymbose. 



1. Vinca. Linn. Periwinkle. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla salver-shaped, the segments oblique, 

 spirally imbricated in the bud. Follicles 2, erect. Seeds 

 naked. — Name supposed from Vincio, to bind, as the trailing 

 stems do the plants which grow in its neighbourhood. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



