CLASS XIV. ORDER II.] LINN^A. 867 



honour of Dr, Humphrey Sibthorpe, the successor of Dillenius lo 

 the botanical chair at Oxford. 



1. S. JSurop'aa, Linn, (Fig. 1001.) creeping Sibthorpia, or Cornish 

 Moneywort. 



English Botany, t. 649. — English Flora, vol. iii. p. 144. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 240. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 192. 



Moot of very slender branched fibres. Stems numerous, thread- 

 shaped, branched, creeping and rooting, hairy, very slender and 

 delicate. Leaves numerous, alternate, petiolated, roundish, kidney- 

 shaped, broadly crenated, a light green, paler beneath, somewhat 

 succulent, and scattered over with short hairs. Injlorescence small 

 axillary solitary flowers, elevated on a short pedicle. Calyx with five 

 deep lanceolate acute spreading segments, hairy. Corolla about as 

 long as the calyx, the tube very short, the limb of five deep segments, 

 spreading, the three upper largest, pinkish, the two lower smaller and 

 white. Stamens nearly equal, the filaments awl-shaped, shorter than 

 the corolla. Anthers of two round lobes. Style as long as the 

 stamens. Stigma obtuse. Capsule sub-orbicular, compressed, notched 

 at the apex. Seeds few, small, ovate. 



Habitat. — Moist shady banks in Devonshire, Cornwall, near Nettle- 

 combe, Somerset, Jersey, Guernsey, and the Scilly Isles, Conner-hill, 

 near Dingle, Ireland. 



Perennial; flowering in July and August. 



This is the only known species of the genus, and is an extremely 

 pretty graceful creeping little plant, growing upon wet banks, ihe sides 

 of springs, and the borders of rivulets. Its flowers are very small and 

 delicate, and its corolla has much the shape of the Veronicas, and is 

 of the same habit of some of the species of that genus. We have found 

 it abundant in Portugal, and occasionally in Italy. 



GENUS XXXIV. LINN'^A.— Gronov. Lmw^a. 



Nat. Ord. Caprifolia'ce^. Juss. 



Gen Char. Calyx five-cleft, superior, nearly equal. Corolla cara- 

 panulate, five-cleft, equal. Style bent. Stigma globose. Fruit 

 a dry three celled berry, each cell with a single pendulous seed. 

 Involucre of from three to four pieces beneath the germen. — 

 Name in honour of Linnceus. 

 I. L. bo7'e'alis, Gronov. (Fig. 1003.) tivo-Jlowered Linncea. 

 English Botany, t. 433. — English Flora, vol. iii. p. 143. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 240. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 132. 



Root of slender branched fibres. Stems trailing, round, slender, 

 smooth, filiform, branched, and rooting from the axis of the leaves, the 

 young branches somewhat hairy. Leaves opposite, rather distant 



