



196 . TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Centunculus. 



leaves, in the height of the stalk* and the length of the spike ; 

 but the membrane terminating the anthers is constant. 



Star of the earth. Hartshorn. Buckthorn Plantain. Gravelly* 



soil. Sea shore, frequent. A. June — Aug. 



Var. 2. Leaves more deeply divided, and more hairy. Heads 



short, and lax. Blackst. p. 77* 



Between Dartford and Greenhithe. [Near the Bristol Chan- 

 nel. Mr. Swayne. — Dawlish, Devonshire.] 



Var. 3. Leaves strap-shaped, very entire, hairy* Spike 

 roundish, Huds. 



Very much resembles Lob. ic. 439. Ray ; which is P. subu* 

 lata. Linn. 



Dry meadows on the sea coast, Huds. — Banks of the river 

 near Yarmouth, and near Sheerness, in Sheppey. Ray. 



Var. 4. Leaves between serrated and toothed. St* 



Pet. 4.9-PJui. 103.5. 



[Found on the north coast of Cornw. by Mr. Watt.] 

 In its smaller state, and with spikes of flowers scarcely longer 

 than broad, (var. I.) it has been very generally supposed to be 

 the PL Lafl'tngii, but that plant, according to Laefling's account, 

 has smooth floral-leaves, whereas in ours they are always hairy, 

 especially on the keel. The root-leaves, he says, are never 

 wing-cleft, but in such of ours whose spike most resembles the 

 other, they are almost always so. 



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CENTUN'CULUS. Cal 4-cleft : Moss. 4-cleft, ex- 

 panding : stam. short : caps. I -celled, cut round. 



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ruin imus. C. 



Dicks, h. s.-E. hot. \9%-Curt. \%5-FI.dan. VfJ-Vait. 4. 2- 

 Mich. 18. 2. 



Bloss. minute ; white ; in the bosom of the leaves. Linn. 

 Continuing and adhering like a veil to the point of the capsule, 

 never expanding but when the sun shines strongly upon them* 

 Curt. Plant very small, branched, forked. Leaves sometimes 

 opposite towards the bottom ; egg-shaped, pointed, smooth, fleshy. 

 Flowers solitary. Roth. Plant hardly an inch high. 



Bastard Pimpernel. Pimpernel Chaffweed. Moist sandy 

 ground, and on commons. [Salt marshes and meadows near the 

 sea side. Newton Cartmel, common. Mr. Hall. — Gamlingay 



Blithfidd. Staffordsh. Hon. Mr. Bagot. 



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Links of St. Andrews. Mr. Brown.] A. JN e * 



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SANGUISOR'BA. Bloss. 4-cleft : germen betwixt 



the calyx and the blossom. 



