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TRIANDRIA. ENNEAGYNIA. Polycarpon. 





Matth. 7M-Barr. 5M-J. B. iii. 366. 1-Lob. adv. 196. 1. 



Sometimes without petals. Huds. It alters its habit so 

 much by cultivation as hardly to be known at first sight. Mr. 

 Woodward. Leaves oval, very entire, on leaf-stalks, growing 

 mostly in fours. Mr. Newbery. 



Four-leaved Allseed. Dry sandy ground. [Lymston, near 

 Exeter. Mr. Newbery.] A. May— Aug. 



nigrum. 



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ENNEAGYNIA. 



EMTETRUM. M 



F. flowers 



parate 



ants. Calyx with 3 divisions : Moss. 3 petals 

 Male. Stam. long. Fern. Berry with 9 seeds. 



E. Stems trailing. 



Matth 



Mill. ill. Dicks, h. s.-E. hot. 526-Fl.dan. 97 5-Tourn. 421. 



lo±~Clus. i. 45. 2~Ger. em. 1383. §~ParL 

 1485. 2-Cam. epit. 77-J. B. i. a. 526. 



A small trailing shrub. Bark the outer scaling off, brown; 

 the inner yellow. Branches rough from the remains of the leaf- 

 $talks. Bud terminating, of 5 leaves : the leaves membrana- 

 ceous, hairy at the edge, producing 5 little branches, 4 of which 

 are in a whirl. Leaves in fours, nearly 3-square, with a white 

 strap-shaped keel, on leaf-stalks. Flowers from the bosom of 

 the leaves, sitting, solitary, surrounded by a floral-leaf, some- 

 times male and female on distinct plants, sometimes on the same 

 plant, and sometimes with hermaphrodite flowers. Floral-leaf 

 with 3 divisions, forming a kind of outer cup. Calyx whitish. 

 Petals and Filaments purple. Anthers brownish black. Fertile 

 flant similar to the barren one. Stem redder. Leaves deep green, 

 in fives. Pistil black. Berries brownish black. Prof. Jacquin 

 has lately found several plants with hermaphrodite flowers. I 

 formerly met with a single plant of that kind, but it was only 

 one in ttn thousand. Linn. Leaves sitting, smooth above, 

 glandular underneath, woolly at the edges, and rolled back so 

 that the edges meet on the under side. Calyx segments con- 

 cave, very minutely serrated. Petals dark purplish red. Anthers 

 full flesh-colour. 



Black-berried Heath. Black Crovj-berries. Crake-berries. 

 Moist mountains and high heaths, both in the driest and most 

 barren rocky soils, and in hogs and moorish grounds. Stafford- 

 shire, Derbyshire, and the Northern counties, frequent. 



S. April. May.* 



* The Highlanders frequently eat the berries, as sometimes do chil- 

 dren, but they are no very desirable fruit, and if taken in large quantities 

 occasion head- ache. - Grouse feed upon them— Boiled with alum they 



afford a dark purple dye. Goats are not fond of it j Cows, Sheep an« 

 Horses ret use it. 





