





TETRANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Buxus. 207 



On Hops, nettles, flax, thistle, and gorse.« A. Aug* Sept.* 



C. Flowers sitting, 5-clefted ; surrounded by floral leaves, Epith'ymunu 



Stamens without scales at the base. Summits simple. 



E. hot. 55.-FI. dan. 42/ -Park. 10. \-Math. 1277~Pomet.42. 9. 



Moss, with 5 divisions, none with less. Shape of bloss. and 

 calyx agrees with Fl. dan, 427, though in habit it resembles 

 t. 199. Woodward. Calyx segments egg-shaped, taper-pointed, 

 unequal, not running down into a kind of fruit-stalk as in C 

 turopaa. St. Much more common than the C. europaea. 



Lesser Dodder. Corn fields and heaths, very common. Huds. 

 [On Heath about Teignmonth ; and on Gorze, (Ulex) in great 

 quantities between Penzance and the land's end. J June, July. 



Var. 2. Cup fleshy at the base ; 5-clefted : bloss. 5-clefted : 

 stamens 5 ; pistils 2 ; seeds 2. 



In Devon and Cornwall, along with the preceding. June. 



TRIGYNIA. 



BUX'US. Male and female flowers on the same or 



on a different plant. 



Male, Calyx 3-leaved : bloss. 1 petals : germen 

 only a rudiment. 



Female, Calyx 4-leaved : bloss. 3 petals : caps. 

 3-celled ; 3-beaked : seeds 2. 





B. Male and female flowers on the same plant. sempervi 



LuJw. K-Kmph. \-Sheldr. 85-W 'ale .-Matth -. 100-GV. renS " 

 Ylli>. 1-Trag. 10o>-ZW. ?S2. \-Munt. 137. 35-Lob. 

 obi. 5tfS ; ic. ii. 128. 1-Ger. em. UW-Pari. 1420. 1- 

 Fuchs. 6^2-BlacHv. \9G~L0nlc. i. 22. 2. 



Leaves oval, thick, glossy. Blossoms greenish white. 

 Common Box. 



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* The seeds sown in a pot produced plants, but which soon died, unles 

 they could attach themselves to some other plant. Park, and Ray hist. 

 As soon as the shoots have twined about an adjoining plant, they send out 

 from their inner surface a number of little vesicles or papillae, which 

 attach themselves to the bark, or rind of the plant. By degrees, the 

 longitudinal vessels of the stalk, which appear to have accompanied the 

 vesicles, shoot forth from their extremities, and make their way into the 

 fetter plant, by dividing the vessels, and insinuating themselves into the 

 tenderest part of the stalk: and so intimately arc they united with it y 



that it is easier to break than to disengage them from it. Guilford in Gent. 

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