ROSACEA. 1Sé 
taken inwardly, as outwardly applied ;” also, “the leaves of Burnet steeped in wine 
and drunken comfort the heart and make it merrie, and are good against the trembling 
and shaking thereof.” We are incredulous enough to believe that without the pre- 
scribed medication, wine will still, as of old, “ gladderi the heart of man,” and sometimes 
cause him to forget that all good gifts may be abused. 
GENUS V.—POTERIUM. Jinn. 
Flowers always polygamous or monecious. Calyx-tube turbi- 
nate, with an annular contraction at the throat, indurated and 
tetragonal or 4-winged at maturity; segments deciduous, 4, in a 
single row. Stamens absent in the upper flowers of the spike, 
20 to 30 in the lower ones, inserted in the throat of the calyx, 
much exserted. Ovaries 2, rarely 3. Styles terminal, exserted. 
Stigma penicilliform. Achenes 1 to 3, enclosed in the calyx-tube. 
Herbs or under-shrubs, more rarely shrubs, with alternate 
interruptedly-pinnate leaves and adnate foliaceous stipules. 
Flowers purplish-brown or olive, in dense terminal spikes. 
The name of this genus of plants is derived from the use to which one of the 
species is applied, poteriwm meaning a drinking-cup, into the contents of which, in 
ancient times, this plant often entered ; or, according to some writers, the form of the 
flowers may have suggested the analogy, and the word zornpioy (poterion), a cup, may be 
the origin of the name. 
SPECIES L—POTERIUM SANGUISORBA. Linn. 
Pirate CCCCXX. 
P. dictyocarpum, Spach, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. III. Vol. V. p. 34. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de 
Fr. Vol. I. p. 562. 
Stems herbaceous, erect or ascending, often curved at the 
base. Leaflets oval or oval-oblong, inciso-serrate. Flower-heads 
terminal, sub-globular or shortly ovoid, with the male or perfect 
flowers at the base, and the female towards the apex of the head. 
Fructiferous calyx with 4 longitudinal entire slightly-elevated thin 
wings, the intermediate spaces with a network of slightly prominent 
veins. | 
On dry pastures, borders of fields, and in open places in woods, 
especially on a chalky soil. Not uncommon in England, scarce 
and possibly not wild in Scotland, although it has been recorded 
as far North as the neighbourhood of Glasgow and the county of 
Forfar. In the latter country I have only seen it near Perth. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 
and Autumn. 
