

CL. Y.] PENTANDRIA. 109 



sessile, between linear and lance-shaped : petals white. Annual : 

 flowers in May : grows in moist gravelly places : frequent. Eng. 

 Bot. vol. ix. pi. 609. Eng. Fl. vol. i. p. 241. 282. 



21. TILLJS'A. TILLJEA. 



Calyx inferior, of one leaf, with three or four large, egg- 

 shaped segments. Petals three or four, egg-shaped, acute, rather 

 smaller than the calyx. Filaments three or four, simple, awl- 

 shaped, erect, shorter than the corolla ; anthers roundish, two- 

 celled. Germens three or four, egg-shaped, superior. Styles 

 very short ; stigmas obtuse. Capsules oblong, pointed, reflected, 

 one-celled, two-valved. Seeds egg-shaped ; two in each 

 capsule. Named after the Italian botanist Tilli. 84. 



1. T.muscosa* Mossy Tillcea, or Red-shanks. Stems procumbent ; 



flowers sessile, three-cleft. From one to two inches high: root 



fibrous : stems at first nearly erect, soon becoming procumbent, 

 round, leafy, red : leaves oval, opposite, succulent, reddish, smooth : 

 petals white, tinged with red. Perennial : flowers in May and June : 

 grows on sandy heaths in Norfolk and Suffolk : common. Eng. Bot. 

 vol. ii. pi. 116. Eng. Fl. vol. i. p. 242. 283. 



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 22. RADI'OLA. ALL-SEED. 



Calyx inferior, of one leaf, with four three-cleft segments. 

 Petals four, inversely egg-shaped, as long as the calyx. Fila- 

 ments four, awl-shaped, as long as the petals ; anthers roundish, 

 two-lobed. Germen superior, roundish, four-lobed. Styles 

 four, hair-like, very short, permanent; stigmas knobbed. 

 Capsule roundish, eight-valved, eight-celled. Seeds solitary, 

 egg-shaped, polished. Named from radius, a ray. 85. 



1. R. Millegrdna. All-seed. From one to two inches high : 



root fibrous: stem erect, repeatedly forked, leafy: leaves egg- 

 shaped, sessile, opposite : flowers axillar, stalked, white. Annual : 

 flowers in July and August : grows in gravelly and sandy soil, on 

 heaths, &c. : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. xiii. pi. 893. Eng. FL 

 vol. i. p. 243. 284. 



CLASS V. PENTANDRIA. 

 Plants bearing Flowers with Five Stamens. 



Order 1. MONOGYNIA. One Pistil. 

 * Flowers of one petal, inferior, with two or four naked seeds. 



10. E'CHIUM. Corolla irregular, its throat dilated and naked. 



Stigma deeply cleft. 



5. PULMONA'RIA. Corolla funnel-shaped, its throat naked. 

 Calyx prismatic five- cleft. 



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