DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Cotyledon. 417 



tity* on Ben Lawers, but only at truly alpine elevations. Mr. 



BKO WN. J 



P. July, Aug, 



PENTAGYNIA. 



COTYLEDON. Calyx 4 or 5-cleft : Moss. J 



petal: nectariferous scales 5, at the base of 

 the germens: caps. 5. 



* 



C. Leaves target or kidney-shaped, scolloped : stem nearly Umbili'cus. 



simple: flowers pendent: floral-leaves entire. Huds. 



Clus. ii. 63. \-Black<w. 263-Dod. 131. l-Lob. obs. 209. 3. 

 Ger. em. 528. l-Park. 740. l-Ger. 423. 1-J. B. liu 

 684. \-Matth. 1122. 



Root oblong, sometimes the size of a nutmeg, flat at bottom, 

 covered with small fibres, but no extended roots. Mr. Stack- 

 house. Whole plant fleshy. Leaves thick, fleshy, circular, 

 with central leaf-stalks, concave on the upper surface, with a * 



hollow dimple nearly in the centre, just opposite to the insertion 

 of the leaf-stalk underneath. Stem-leaves resembling the root- 

 leaves, but not so exactly circular, and the leaf-stalk not fixed so 

 nearly in the centre. Stem upright, cloathed with a long spike- 

 like bunch of pendent flowers, but in the smaller plants the flow- 

 ers are sometimes upright or horizontal. Floral-leaves strap- 

 spear-shaped, entire, floss, tubular, 5-sided, pale greenish yellow. 



C umbilicus fi LlNN. Common Navelvuort. Kidneyvoort* 



Wall Pennywort. Old walls and moist rocks. West of Eng- 

 land. Caernarvonshire, and about Troutbeck, Westmoreland. * 

 [Old walls at Peterborough * and Thorpe, between Peterborough 

 and Wandsford. Dr. J. E. Smith, and Mr. Woodward. Walls, 

 Cornwall, Mr. Watt. Plentifully throughout Caernarvonshire 

 and Merionethshire. Mr. Wood. Malvern Hill, Worcester- 

 shire. Mr. Ballard. St. *In Devon and Cornwall, very luxu- 

 riant. On walls, roofs, and rocks.] P. June — Oct. 



C. Leaves target-shaped, scolloped : stem nearly simple : lu'tea, 



flowers upright : floral -leaves toothed. Huds. 



Dodart* 73. at p. 265, (I have not seen.) 



Roots knotty, creeping. Morison. 



C. umbilicus * Linn. Yellow Navelwort. Walls an 

 rocks in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Mr. Tofield. 

 garden of Mr. Clement, who received it out of Soroers 







In the 



Hudson. 



June 



Vot. II. £ t 



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