184 . APOCYNE.E. [Vinca. 



4. P. secunda, Linn. Serrated Winter-green. Flowers all 

 leaning one way, racemed; leaves ovate, serrated. Br. FL 1. 

 p. 186. E. FL v. ii. p. 257. E. Bot. t. 207. 



Rare in Ireland. In a Mountain Glen near Garvagh, County of Derry ; 

 Mr. D. Moore. FL July. 3. Stems rather straggling, branched. 

 Peduncles 4 5 inches high, with several oval scales or bracteas. 

 Flowers small, greenish-white. Petals erect. Style much protruded. 

 Stigma 5-lobed. 



2. MONOTROPA. Linn. Bird's-nest. 



Perianth single, of 4 5 leaves, cucullate at the base. Anthers 

 1-celled, 2-lipped. Capsule superior, 4 5-celled. Seeds 

 numerous, invested with a long arillus. Named from /LIOVOS, 

 one, and rpeTrw, to turn, the flowers all pointing one way. 



Decandria. Monogynia. 



1. M. Hypopitys, Linn. Yellow Bird's-nest. Flowers in a 

 drooping cluster ; lateral ones with eight stamens, terminal one 

 with ten. Br. FL \. p. 186. E. FL v. ii. p. 249. E. Bot. t. 

 713. 



Beech and Fir-woods, where the soil is dry. St. Catherine s woods, 

 County of Dublin, and Moore Abbey, County of Kildare ; Doctor 

 Wade. FL June, July. !(.. Plant succulent of a uniform yellowish 

 colour. Stem five to eight inches high. Leaves resembling scales. 



ORD. 50. APOCYNE^:. Br. Apocynum Family. 



Calyx of 5 divisions, persistent. Corolla monopetalous, hy- 

 pogynous, regular, 5-lobed, with an imbricated aestivation, 

 deciduous. Stamens 5, situated on the corolla, and alternate 

 with the segments of the limb: filaments distinct: anthers 

 2-celled, opening longitudinally ; pollen granular, immediately 

 applied to the stigma. Ovaries 2 or 1, 2-celied, generally 

 many-seeded : styles 2 or 1 : stigma 1. Pericarp a follicle or 

 capsule, drupe or berry, double or single. Seeds generally 

 without albumen. Embryo foliaceous. Plumule inconspicu- 

 ous. Trees, shrubs (or herbaceous plants), often milky. Leaves 

 opposite, sometimes vertidllate, rarely scattered, entire, frequently 

 with interpetiolary cilia which are glandular. Inflorescence some- 

 what corymbose. 



1. VINCA. Linn. Periwinkle. 



Calyx 5 -parted. Corolla salver-shaped, the segments oblique, 

 spirally imbricated in the bud. Follicles 2, erect. Seeds 

 naked. Name supposed from Vincio, to bind, as the trailing 

 stems do the plants which grow in its neighbourhood. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



