198 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



The name of this genus of plants signifies without glory, and comes from a 

 privative and co^a (doxa), glory ; void of show, from the fact that the flowers are so 

 small and colourless as scarcely to be seen. 



SPECIES I— AD OX A MOSCHATELLINA. Linn. 



Plate DCXXXVI. 



Jieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. XVII. Tab. MCLXXII. Figs. 1, 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 135. 



The only known species. 



In moist shady places about the roots of trees, and on damp 

 Ledge-banks. Rather scarce, but generally distributed as far North 

 as Aberdeenshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Spring. 



Hhizome creeping, with a few thick white scales at the top, 

 from which the radical leaves and flowering-stem are developed. 

 Kadical petioles dilated, fleshy at the base, with 2 or 3 white scaly 

 buds in their axils. Radical leaves 1 to 3, biternate, with the 

 leaflets more or less perfectly ternately lobed, each of these lobes 

 again unequally but less deeply lobed ; ultimate lobes rather blunt. 

 Stem 2 to 8 inches high, longer than the radical leaves, with a pair 

 of opposite ternate leaves above the middle, each resembling one 

 of the primary divisions of the radical leaves. Plower-heads 

 cubic-globose, i to ^ inch in diameter. Mowers pale yellowish- 

 green, 5 in number, the lateral ones pentamerous, the terminal 

 one tetramerous. Corolla J inch across, rotate, with roundish 

 segments. Stamens standing in pairs, with single-celled anthers, 

 each pair probably representing a forked stamen. Styles erect, 

 united below. Berry 3- inch in diameter, pale- green, juicy, globose, 

 half-inclosed by the adnate calyx, which becomes fleshy. Plant 

 very fragile, somewhat succulent. Leaves flaccid, green, paler 

 below, shining. 



Tuberous Moscliatel. 



French, Adoxe Moscatelline. German, Gemeines JBisamJcraut. 



This plant receives its specific name from a musky odour which it emits. It will 

 grow freely under the shade of trees, and is worth the trouble of seeking to the lover of 

 wild flowers. 



Sub-Order II.— SAMBUCEtE. 



Corolla regular, rotate or salver- or funnel-shaped. Style none. 

 Stigmas 3, sessile. Stamens 5. Eruit drupaceous, containing 1 to 8 

 1-seeded stones. 



Trees or shrubs, with" flowers in corymbose cymes. 



