POLYANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Poterium. 
Dill. elth. 144. 172-Pluk. 23.6. 
Flowers white. Linn, Stems numerous. Flowering branches 
age cottony, white. Leaves opposite, rolled back at the 
edge, with a prominent mid-rib underneath, cottony, white. 
Babes pr fe Fruit-stalks short. Leaf-scales spear- 
Shaped. Calyx purplish, slightly hairy; the 2 outer leaves 
spear-shaped, minute. Woopwarp. 
Mountain Cistus. Brent Downs, Somersetshire, near the 
Severn Sea, P, July. 
DIGYNIA. 
POTE/RIUM. Stamens and pistils in different 
flowers, on the same plant. Calyx 4 leaves: 
bloss. with 4 divisions. 
Male. Stam. 30 to 4 
Fem. Drupa juiceless ; benedtit: 1 or 2-celled ¢ 
formed of the indurated tube of the blossom. 
P, Thornless: stems somewhat angular. 
Dict ke s.-Ludw. 197—Kniph. 1-Curt.-Matth, 1034—Dod. 
« 1-Lob. obs. 412.33; and it. i. 718. 2-Ger, em. 
way 1—Park. 582. 1-Ger. 889. 1-Sheldr.-Gars. 457— 
Fuchs. 789-F. B. iii. 4. LS Grime 413-Col. ecphr. 
~ is 124—H, ox. viii. 18. 1 
Barren esner. wee. 2 feeble pistils. Berry dry, angular. 
Seeds 4.cornered, to each en inn. Fem. flowers at 
the top of the ike: Fi owers greenish, sometimes purplish on 
the outside. The plant has the habit of the be sg epee offici- 
nalis, and its fruit bears also a near ee e, but the number 
and disposition of the stamens, &c. will re ily. distinguish tains 
Upland Burnet: Ina dry calcareous aa: | Brathay pe WS, 
near a hg and elsewhere in Furness Fells. Mr. ATKInson. 
Weaver Hills, Staffordshire. Mr. rine St. Vin sea $ roc 
Salisbury Plain in] ; P. April, May.* 
* The leaves and seeds are mildly paler. and have been used 
dysenteries and hemorrhages. Lewis. The y tang leaves are sometim 
used in elles, 28 and in cool tankards. When bruised ney smell like 
mber has, of late ears, been cultivated, as ing fe ‘or 
bage over a great extent of that — mages heep-walk. Iti i eo 
483, 
Sanguisor’ba. 
