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ovate, nerveless, sessile, acute ; corollas larger than the calix. 

 Native of the Swiss and Pyrenean mountains. 



I). Arenaria Serpyllifolia ; Least duckweed, or Thyme- 

 ifin'fd Sandwort. Leaves ovate, subsessile, rough ; calix 

 hirsute, five-nerved ; flowers small, white. An annual plant, 

 common upon walls, among rubbish, and in dry barren places, 

 not only in Europe, but Japan; flowers from May to August. 



10. Arenaria Triflora ; Three-flowered Sandwort. Leaves 

 lance-subulate, ciliate; branches mostly three-flowered ; pe- 



tals marked with lines, obtuse : perennial. Found upon 

 rocks in the south of Europe. 



1 1 . Arenaria Montana ; Mountain Sandwort. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, rugged; stems barren, very long, procum- 

 bent. Native of Spain, and the south of France. 



12. Arenaria Rubra ; Purple Spurrey, or Sandwort. Leaves 

 filiform; stipules membraneous, sheathing. There is a va- 

 riety called Sea Spurrey, with linear leaves, the length of 

 the internodes. Corolla purple, appearing in June and July, 

 and frequently continuing till September. Annual. Sheep 

 and goats dislike this plant. 



13. Arenaria Media ; Middle or Downy Sandwort. Leaves 

 linear, fleshy; stipules membranous; stems pubescent. The 

 flower, which appears in June and July, is purple, and open 

 at noon. It is found plentifully on the shell-coast of the 

 isle of Shepey, and is also a native of Germany and France. 



14. Arenaria Bavarica ; Bavarian Sandwort. Leaves semi- 

 cylindric, fleshy, obtuse ; petals lanceolate ; peduncles ter- 

 minal, mostly binate : perennial. Native of Bavaria, Monte 

 Baldo, and Little St. Bernard. 



15. Arenaria Gypsophiloides. Leaves linear, short ; radi- 

 cal ones bristly ; panicle subpubescent ; petals lanceolate : 

 perennial. Native of the Levant. 



16. Arenaria Saxatilis ; Rock Sandwort. Leaves subu- 

 late ; stems panicled ; leaflets of the calix ovate, obtuse ; 

 petals white : perennial. Native of France, Germany, Swit- 

 zerland, Carniola, and Siberia. 



17. Arenaria Verna; Vernal Mountain Sandwort or Chick- 

 weed. Leaves subulate; stems panicled; calices pointed, 

 striated. Petals oval, and white: it flowers from May till 

 Aiigust. Found upon mountains in Dauphiny, Savoy, Aus- 

 tria, and Great Britain, as, near the Land's End in Cornwall, 

 about Kendal, Settle, and Matlock ; at Arthur's seat near Edin- 

 burgh ; near Holywell, St. Asaph, and Llanberys, in Wales. 



18. Arenaria Hispida; Hispid Sandwort. Leaves subu- 

 late, hispid underneath. Native of Montpellier. 



19. Arenaria Juniperina ; Juniper Sandwort. Leaves subu- 

 late, thorny ; stems erect ; calices striated ; capsules ob- 

 long; root perennial. Native place unknown. 



20. Arenaria Tenuifolia; Fine-leaved Chickweed or Sand- 

 vnrt. Leaves subulate, acute ; stem panicled ; capsules erect. 



Flowers small, white ; petals shorter than the calix, and lan- 

 ceolate ; root annual. Native of almost every country in the 

 north of Europe ; it is found in England upon Gog-magog 

 Hills, and the borders of Triplow heath in Cambridgeshire; 

 near Bury ; near Cley in Norfolk ; Cornbury quarry,near Chai-1- 

 bury in Oxfordshire ; Malvern hill in Worcestershire ; and 

 at Battersea and Deptford, flowering in June and July. 



21. Arenaria Laricifolia ; Larch-leaved Sandwort. Leaves 

 bristly ; stem nakedish above ; calices rather shaggy. Root 

 perennial. It flowers in July and August ; and is a native of 

 France, Switzerland, Savoy, Piedmont, and Westmoreland. 



'-'.J. Arenaria Striata ; Striated Sandwort. Leaves linear, 

 erect, pressed to the stem; calices oblong, striated. It 

 flowers from July to August ; and is a native of Switzerland. 



'23. Arenaria Fasciculata ; Cluster-flowering Sandwort. 

 Leaves subulate ; stem erect, stiff; flowers fascicled; petals 



very short, white ; root annual. It flowers in August, am! 

 is a native of the south of France, the alps of Piedmont, &c. 



24. Arenaria Grandiflora ; Great-flowered Sandwort. 

 Leaves subulate, flat, stiff; the radical ones crowded ; stems 

 one-flowered ; root perennial. Native of the south of France, 

 near Geneva, Mont Cenis, the Vaudois, Carniola, &c. 



25. Arenaria Austriaca ; Austrian Sandwort. Stems 

 under-shrubby, prostrate, then herbaceous, and erect ; leaves 

 subulate; flowers twin: petals emarginate : perennial. Na- 

 tive of the mountains of Austria, Switzerland, and Piedmont. 



26. Arenaria Liniflora; Flax-flowered, Sandwort. Stems 

 erect, branching below, and under-shrubby ; leaves subulate ; 

 flowers twin : perennial. Native of the south of Europe. 



27. Arenaria Recurva. Radical leaves heaped, recurved 

 subulate ; stem simple, bearing about three flowers. Root 

 biennial. Native of Provence, and of rocky pastures in the 

 high Alps of the Vaudois in Piedmont ; also of the high 

 mountains of Switzerland. 



28. Arenaria Obtusa. Leaves linear, flat, obtuse ; calices 

 viscid : perennial. Native of the high Swiss alps, &c. 



29. Arenaria Lanceolata. Leaves lanceolate, three-nerved, 

 acute ; calices lanceolate, three-nerved ; root perennial, 

 dark-coloured, tough, with a very few fibres, creeping. 



30. Arenaria Dianthoides. Leaves linear, scabrous at the 

 edge ; flowers capitated ; bractes ventricose, longer than the 

 peduncles. Perennial. Found by Tournefort in Armenia. 



31. Arenaria Cucubaloides. Leaves linear, scabrous at 

 the edge; panicles dichotomous, pubescent; petals obovate. 

 Root perennial. Found by Tournefort in Armenia. 



Arethusa ; a genus of the class Gynandria, order Diandria. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : spathe leafy ; perianth none. 

 Corolla : ringent ; petals five, oblong, subequal, two outer, 

 all converging into a helmet ; nectary one-leafed, tubular 

 at the base, within the bottom of the corolla two-parted ; 

 lower lip reflex, broad, wrinkled, the length of the petals, 

 hanging down forwards ; upper lip linear, very tender, fasten- 

 ed to the style, lobed at the top. Stamina : fi lamenta two, very 

 short, sitting on the top of the pistil ; anthera ovate, com- 

 pressed, covered with the folding of the inner lip of the nec- 

 tary. Pistil.- germen oblong, inferior ; style oblong, incurved, 

 clothed with the inner lip of the nectary ; stigma funnel- 

 shaped. Pericarp: capsule oblong-ovate, one-celled, three- 

 valved, gaping at the angles. Seeds: numerous, chaffy. Es- 

 SKNTIAL CHARACTER. Nectary tubular, within the bottom of 

 the corolla ; the lower lip fastened to the style. The first 

 three are hardy, and will endure the rigour of our climate ; 

 the next three must be kept in the Cape-stove, and the last 

 in the bark-stove. They grow in bogs and watery places. 

 The species are, 



1. Arethusa Bulbosa ; Bulbous-rooted Arethusa. Root 

 globose ; scape sheathed ; spathe two-leaved. This and the 

 two next species are natives of bogs in North America. 



2. Arethusa Ophioglossoides; Adder s Tongue-leaved Are- 

 thusa. Root fibrous ; leaf of the scape oval, spathaceous ; 

 leaflet lanceolate. 



3. Arethusa Divaricata ; Lily-leaved, Heleborine or Are- 

 thusa. Root subpalmate ; leaf of the cape and leaflet of the 

 spathe lanceolate ; the outer petals rising. 



4. Arethusa Capensis ; Cape Afethusa. Bulb round ; 

 stem two-leaved, simple, one-flowered ; leaves two, alter- 

 nate, sheathing, awl-shaped. Found at the Cape. 



5. Arethusa Villosa ; Fillose Arethusa. Bulb round ; 

 leaves ovate, ciliate, pubescent. Found also at the Cape. 



6. Arethusa Ciliaris ; Ciliated Arethusa. Root fleshy; 

 leaf kidney-shaped, orbiculate ; lip ciliate. Also a native 

 of the Cape. 



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