

TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Epunedium. W 



S. Spikes egg-shaped. 



officinalis 



7 





Ger. 88$. 2-Pet. 4. \1-Clus. ii. 197. 3-3*/. 105-2 



■Ma//A 



1033-//. ox. viii. 18. 7. 



A hard woody plant, from If to 2| feet high. Leaves wing, 

 fed; wings egg-oblong, serrated, about 4 pair, and an odd one at 

 the^ end. 1'loss. beneath ; segments mulberry-coloured, tube 

 white, fleshy, inclosing the germen ; a glandular ring closely 

 embracing, but not adhering to the style. Petals when old, 

 only slightly adhering at the base, that one might almost con- 

 sider it as a 4-petaled blossom. S. vessel, besides the coat form- 

 ed by the permanent tube of the blossom, there is another egg. 

 shaped seed- vessel, including 1 seed. Upper florets either with- 

 out stamens or with only an imperfect one* 



Wild Burnet. Great Burnet* Burnet B!ood<wort. Meadow 



Burnet. Moist pastures, especially on marly or calcareous soil. 

 [Limestone pastures in the North, very common. Have not found 

 it farther to the S. E. thanRipton, Huntingdonsh. Mr. Woodw. 

 Marly soils about Stafford, not uncommon.] P. June— Aug. 



EPIME'DIUM. BIoss. 4 petals : nectaries 4 ; lean- 



E. 



ing : cal. deciduous : seed-vessel a pod. 



£. boU 438-Knijrh. IC-Mill. *V. 133-CW. 59$~Loi. obs. 

 176. \~Ger.em.±SG-Park. \$66 y upper fig.~J. £.ii.39U 



Near a foot high. Leaves heart-shaped, on leafstalks. Bloss. 

 mulberry red, with a yellow stripe. 



In Bingley Woods, 6 miles from W. Brierley, Yorkshire, 

 not sparingly. Richardson, in Blackst. 19. P. June, July. 



This plant does not appear to have been known to Mr. Ray, 

 otherwise than as a native of Austria, &c. nor has it been found 

 in England by any of our later botanists, but the above authority 

 is so particular, that I have been induced to insert it as a means 

 of exciting to further enquiries. Its creeping roots enable it to 

 multiply apace, and when once in possession of the soil, it is not 

 easily eradicated, though if {he wood be destroyed where Mr. 

 Richardson found it so plentifully, it may have disappeared, for 

 it seems to require shady and damp situations. — [Since the above 

 was written, Mr. Robson has sent me a specimen which was ga- 

 thered on Skiddaw in July, 1795. Also specimens from the Rev. 

 T. Gisborne, whose plants were discovered in 1/87 in a very 



wild part of Cumberland called Carrock Fell.] 



alpi'num 





