4' ENGLISH KOTANV. 



or Ihricc the length of the longer ealyx-tccth. Stamens G. Cap- 

 sule cylindrical. 



In places occasionally overflowed. Very rare. Near Rochester, 

 Kent, several places in Cambridgeshire, *' Cholsey," Berks (Soc. Bot. 

 Ed.), and AVallingford, Oxford, arc all the localities from whence I 

 have specimens. 



England. Annual. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Stems 4 to IG inches long, rather tough, simple or slightly 

 branched at the base ; branches spreading. Leaves J to 1 inch 

 long, by ^o to ^ inch wide. Calyx 5 inch long, tube 4 or 5 times as 

 long as the teeth, attenuated towards the base when in flower, but 

 cylindrical in fruit. Pedicels much shorter than the calyx-tube, 

 witli the bractcoles at the apex instead of the base. Petals very 

 small, oblong oblanceolate, pale purple. Stamens usually included, 

 or very slightly exserted beyond the tube of the calyx. Eruit a 

 little longer than the calyx-tube. Seeds very numerous, angular- 

 ovoid, finely punctatc-striate. Plant dull green, glabrous. 



Hi/ssojJ-leaved Grass-poly. 



French, Salicnire h Feuilles cfllyssope. German, Ysopblattriger Weiderich. 



GENUS IL—V E P L I S. Linn, 



Calyx short, campanulate, 12-cleft, the G inner segments broadest 

 and erect, the outer smaller, narrower, and somewhat spreading. 

 Petals G, opposite the exterior divisions of the calyx, very small, 

 frequently absent. Stamens G, inserted on the summit of the calyx- 

 tube, and opposite the broader teeth. Style filiform, often very 

 short; stigma capitate. Capsule partly protruding beyond the 

 calyx-tube, sub-globose, with a very thin pericarp, splitting irre- 

 gularly. Seeds numerous, plano-convex, with a leathery testa. 



Small annuals, growing in wet places, with much-branched de- 

 cumbent stems, and opposite, sessile, obovate, or oblanceolate entire 

 leaves, and small solitary axillary flowers. 



This genus is named from the Greek word TrtnXig (peplis), a purple garment, which 

 the flowers resemble in colour. 



V- SPECIES L—PE PL IS PORTULA. Linn. 

 Plate CCCCXCIII. 

 Stem much branched, prostrate. Leaves opposite, obovate, 

 attenuated into a short petiole. Elowers solitary, very shortly 

 stalked, in the axils of the leaves. Pedicels with 2 small linear acute 



