OF TREES AND PLANTS. 207 



ifland, in great abundance, in a light fandy foil, fertilized by 

 floods. The ftalk is procumbent, taking root at the joints, {lender, 

 lightly tinged with red. The leaves are on fhort pedicles, ovated, 

 and fparingly lanccolated ; in which lies the difference between 

 it and the yellow-flowered Money-wort. The flowers are mono- 

 petalous, in pairs on fliort pedicles, of a beautiful yellow. The 

 calyx is divided into five ftellate fegments. 



105. Annual fcarlet- flowered Pimpernel (I)- In corn-fields. In the 

 fields about St.John-lee and ffexham, plentifully. The ftalks are flen- 

 der, fquare, and branched. The leaves arc ovated, and fparingly 

 lanceolated. The flowers are in pairs on pedicles, of a bright 

 and beautiful fcarlet. The calyx is deeply divided into five acute 

 fegments, of the fame colour. The tube is fliort and white. 

 The ftamina about the tube are bearded, and crowned with fum- 

 mits or antherse of a bright gold-yellow. It flowers in June and 



July. ;V Mi ; ; '' 



106. Annual Uue-fl'j'wered Pimpernel (m). Among corn, but not 

 common. In the corn-fields about Alnivick, fparingly. In its whole 



form 



nemorum. C. B. Pin. p. 252. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 569. Lyfimachia humifufa folio fubro- 

 tundp acuminate flore luteo. Tcurn. Inft. p. n 2. I'ailL p. 144. Lyfimachia foliis ovato- 

 acutis, floribus folitariis caule procumbente. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 52. Hall. Helv. 

 p. 481. 



(I) Anagal is mas. Cam. Epit. p. 394. optime. Dod. Pempt. p. 32. Gcr. p. 494. ernac. 

 p. 617. Raj. Hift. ii. p. 1023. Anagallis phaenicea maf. /. B. iii. p. 369. Anagallis flore 

 phoeniceo. C. B. Pin. p. 252. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 568. Tonrn. Inft. p. 1842. Raj. Syn. 

 iii. p. 282. Park. Theatr. p. 558. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 126. >;'/.'. Gift". Hall. Helv. p. 481. 

 Anagallis terreftris mas, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 187. Anagallis foliis ovatis. Linn. Hort. 

 Cliff, p. 52. Anagaliis foliis indivifis. Royen. lugdb. p. 416. Linn, Flo. Suec. n. 169. 



(m) AnagalHs femina. Cam, Epit. p. 395. Dad. Pempt. p. 32. Ger. p. 494. cmac, p. 617. 

 Raj. Hift. ii. p. 1024. Syn. iii. p. 282. Anagallit terreftris femina, Offic. Dal. Pharm. 



p. 187. 



