CLASS Til. ORDER I. j 



TRIENTAHS. 



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white or pinkish, with a yellow base and short claw. Calyx of three 

 spreading ovate concave pieces. Petals three, roundish, veined, with 

 a waved margin. Capsules from six to twelve, in a roundish head, 

 each capsule oblong, obtuse, with a beaked point, recurved, and 

 numerously striated, single seeded. 



Habitat. Lakes and ditches. North Wales and Cumberland 

 very rare in Scotland, Black Loch, six miles from Stranraer ; very 

 plentiful in Cunnamara, and the large Marsh on the Hill of Howth, 

 County of Down, Ireland. Mr. Templeton. 



Perennial; flowering in July and August. 



CLASS VII. 

 HEPTAN'DRIA. 7 STAMENS. 



ORDER I. 



MONOGY'NIA. 1 PISTIL. 



GENUSI. TRIE NT A 'LI S. RUPP. Chickweed Winter green. 



Nat. Ord. PRIMULA'CE^E. Jess. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx seven-partite. Corolla plane, of seven segments, 

 united at the base into a ring. Stamens seven, inserted into the 

 ring. Capsule somewhat fleshy, of one cell, bursting with seven 

 valves. Seeds numerous. " Name from triens, a third part, and 

 said to allude to this plant, being one-third of a foot in height ; 

 but such a meaning is very equivocal." Hooker. 

 1. T. Euro'peea, Linn. (Fig. 615.) European Chickweed Winter- 

 green. Leaves oblong, or oblong ovate, obtuse. 



English Botany, t. 15. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 207. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 176. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 185. 



Roots fibrous, from a slightly swollen base of the stem, which is from 

 three to six inches high, erect, somewhat tortuous beneath the ground, 

 round, smooth, simple, naked, except having one or two small abortive 

 leaves, distant, and crowned with a tuft or terminal whorl of large 

 ones, unequal in size, ovate, obtuse, or oblong ovate, with an acute 

 point, and tapering at the base into a short footstalk, quite smooth, 

 rather paler, and sometimes glossy beneath, with a mid-rib, and nume- 

 rous lateral much branched reticulated slender veins, and from the 

 axis of the leaves arises from one to four flowers, elevated on slender 



