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stamens and styles inclined downwards. Stigma deeply four-lobed. 

 Pod one to two inches long, more or less hoary. 



2. E. hirsutum, (Linn.) hairy Willow-herb. Engl, Bot. t. 838. 

 Locality. Banks of the Avon, sides of ditches and rivulets, in 



open sunny places, frequent. P. Fl. July, August. Area, 

 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Whole plant soft, downy and clammy, exhaling a peculiar acid- 

 ulous scent, justly compared to the flavour of boiled codlings, and 

 cream. Flotoers in leafy corymbose clusters, large, of a delicate 

 pink, with cloven regular petals, and erect stamens and style. 

 Germen downy, very long. A white flowered variety has been 

 observed at Holt {Dist. 4) by the Rev. B . T. Ellacombe. 



3. E. parviflorum, (Schreb.) small-flowered Willow-herb. Engl. 

 Bot. t. 795. 



Locality. By brooks and ditches, along hedges, lanes and road- 

 sides, frequent. P. Fl. July, August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In all 

 the Districts, but less abundant than the last. This is distinguished 

 from the former by its smaller statue and much smaller flowers. 

 The lower leaves also, and sometimes the upper ones are shortly 

 stalked ; the middle ones usually sessile, but scarcely clasping the 

 stem. Petals smaller and paler than in E. hirsutum. Buds obtuse. 

 Fruit erect, five or six times as long as the pedicels. Seeds obovate, 

 with a fine silky crown. 



4. E. montanum, (Linn.) mountain Willow Herb. Engl. Bot. t. 

 1177. 



Locality. In similar places with the two preceding species, but 

 often in drier situations, as on walls and cottage roofs. P. Fl. July, 

 August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Distributed throughout all the Districts. 

 It varies much in the size of the flowers which are pink or white, 

 or very pale rose-colour. Petals twice as long as the sepals, 

 notched. Seeds ovate or oblong, finely shagreened. 



5. E. tetragonum, (Linn.) square-stalked Willow-herb. So 

 called from tctra (Gr.) four, and gonia, an angle. Eng. Bot. t. 

 1948. Curt. i. 66. 



Locality. In wet ditches, and watery places. P. Fl. July, 

 August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



