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GENUS r— LINNiEA. Gronov. 



Calyx-tube ovate, limb 5-partite, with lanceolate subulate 

 deciduous segments. Corolla funnel-shaped, bell-shaped, contracted 

 into a narrow tube at the base, 5-lobed at the apex, nearly regular. 

 Stamens 4, dididymous, the 2 upper ones longer, included. Style 

 exserted. Stigma globose. Pruit a dry berry with 3 cells, each 

 cell with 2 ovules, but the fruit 1-seeded by abortion of the other 

 seeds. 



This genus contains only a single species, unlike the other 

 plants of the order. 



This genus of plants contains but one species, for ■which it was originally formed, 

 and its interest consists in the fact that its name was given to it by Gronovius at 

 the express desire of Linnseus, who chose this humble plant to transmit his own name 

 to posterity. 



SPECIES I.— L INN^A BOREALIS. Grorwv. 



Plate DCXLIV. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXX. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 376. 



The only known species. 



In fir woods ; local. In a plantation of Scotch firs at Catcher- 

 side, in the parish of Heartburn, Northumberland, and in the 

 counties of Berwick, Edinburgh, Perth, Forfar, Kincardine, 

 Aberdeen, Banff", Moray, and Boss ; possibly not wild South 'of 

 the Tay. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer. 



Stems slender, trailing, rooting, woody, pubescent with reflexed 

 hairs, much branched with very long prostrate simple barren shoots, 

 and short erect flowering branches 1 to 3 inches high. Leaves 

 J to f inch in diameter, sub-coriaceous, evergreen, shortly stalked, 

 roundish or roundish-obovate, faintly crenate in the apical half, 

 blunt, sub-glabrous with scattered hairs, especially towards the 

 margin. Peduncles terminal, erect from the apex of the flowering- 

 shoots, \^ to 3 inches long, terminated by a pair of bracts, in the 

 axils of which spring 2 slender slightly-diverging pedicels clothed 

 with gland-tipped pubescence and hooked round near the top 

 immediately beyond a pair of minute elliptical bractioles ; the bent 

 part of the pedicel rather shorter than the bristly ovary, which is 

 embraced by a pair of oval bractioles. Elowers drooping, pale 

 purplish-rose, f inch long. Calyx-teeth linear lanceolate, about 

 as long as the ovary. Corolla between bell-shaped and funnel- 



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