34G HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Peplis. 



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Dusky Frankwort. Sea coast of Sussex between Bognor and 



Brighthelms tone. 





A. July. 





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PE'PLIS. Calyx bell-shaped, rim 12- cleft : petals 



none, or 6 fixed to the cup : caps, superior, 

 2-celled ; many-seeded. 



Po/tula. P. Flowers often without petals. 



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Dicks, h. s.-Curt. 288-VmH. 15. 5-FI. dan. 64-Mick 18.1 

 ~Ger. em. 6U. U~Pari. 1260. 4-J. B. iii 1 372. 3. 



Stems numerous, creeping. Leaves inversely egg-shaped, 

 sometimes tapering into leaf-stalks. Petals deciduous, very mi- 

 nute ; both blossom and filaments pinky red. 



Marshy and watery places, especially such as become dry in 



A. July— Sept. 



summer. 



TRIGYMA. 



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RU'MEX. Calyx 3-leaved : petals 3, closing : seed 



1, three-cornered, inclosed in the blossom. 



(l) Flowers hermaphrodite ; petals entire, only \ -leaded. 



sanguineus. R, Valves very entire : leaves heart-spear-shaped. 



Munt. br'it. 113. and phyt. 196-Pet. 2. .5-7. B. ii 



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Ger. em. 390~Park. 1226. \Q~H. ox. v. 27- <>• 



Leaves with red veins containing a blood-coloured juice. 

 Outer valve of the flower with a large red globular grain, and 

 sometimes the other with a small grain. It migrated from Vir- 

 ginia to Hampstead in England. Linn. Blossoms reddish. Leaves 

 unequal at the base. 



Small-grained Dock Bloodvoort. Woods near Hampstead, but 



not frequent, and near Maidstone, Kent. B. J u v f 



(2) Flowers hermaphrodite) petals entire, all of them leaded. 



Cris'pus. R. Valves strongly veined: leaves spear-shaped, acute, 



waved and curled at the edge. 



Curt. 104-Munt. br'tt. 104, and phyt. 190-Ger. 312. 4- 

 Pet. 2. 2. 



Grains on the valves very large, nearly round. Mr. Woodw. 

 Root yellow. Curr. Beads 1 or 3, rarely 2. Dr. Stokes.-- 

 tves strap-spear-shaped. Valves large, brown red when ripe? 



