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5. P. Coronopus, L. {Buck's-horn Plantain); leaves linear pin- 

 iiatifid, scape rounded, dissepiment of the capsule with 4 angles 

 (thus forming 4 cells), 1 seed in each cell. E. Bot. t. 892. 



Gravelly sterile soils, inland and upon the coast. Fl. June, July. 0. 

 —Leaves mostly spreading, very variable in size and pubescence, pinna- 

 tifid ; segments often toothed or again divided. Scape hairy. Spike 

 mostly cylindrical. In small plants" growing on Staffa, I have seen the 

 spike ovate, composed of not more than 7 orS flowers j whilst the leaves 

 and scapes were quite hispid. 



10. Centunculus. Linn. ChafFweed. 



1. C. mi)iimus, L. (small CJwfjFivecd or Bastard Pimpernel); 

 flowers sessile, corolla without glands at the base. E. Bot. ^.531. 



Moist sandy or gravelly places, about London, in Kent, Bedfordshire, 

 Norfolk, Suffolk, the south of Ireland, and lowlands of Scotland ; not 

 frequent : probably, however, often overlooked on account of its small 

 size. FL June, July, — Plant 1 — 2 inches high, more or less 

 branched. Leaves alternate, ovate, glabrous. Flowers extremely minute, 

 sessile, axillary, solitary. Cor. pale rose colour, withering. 



11. Epjmedium. Linn. Barrenwort. 



1. * E. alpi?ium, L. (aljnne Barremoort); root-leaves none, 

 stem-leaf twice ternate. E. Bot. t. 438. 



Subalpine woods. Bingley woods, Yorkshire. On Carrock Fell and 

 Skiddaw, Cumberland. Near Glasgow and Edinburgh. Fl. May. 1^. — 

 Stems several from the same root, erect, simple, bearing each a triternate 

 leaf, base of the petiole swollen : leajlets heart-shaped, extremely deli- 

 cate, ciliated at the margin, hairy beneath, serrated; lateral ones in- 

 equilateral. Panicle shorter than the leaf, springing from the swollen 

 base of the petiole. Flowers reddish ; nectary yellowish, resembling an 

 inflated membrane. Anthers very curious, of 2 cells, opening by two 

 valves which spring back upwards, and suff'er the pollen to escape. 



12. CoRNUs. Linn. Cornel. 



1. C. sanguinca, L. (ivild Cornel or Dogicood); arborescent, 

 branches straight, leaves opposite ovate green on both sides, 

 cymes destitute of involucre. E. Bot.t. 249. 



Woods and thickets, particularly on a chalk or limestone soil ; scarcely 



wild in Scotland. Fl. June, July. T? 5 — 6 feet high. Bark in the 



older branches dark-red, as are the leaves before they fall ; these are 

 strongly nerved, entire, slightly hairy beneath. Cymes of numerous white 

 flowers at the ends of the branches. 



2. C. Suecica, L. [dwarf Cornel); herbaceous, leaves all op- 

 posite ovate glabrous, flowers few umbellate surrounded by a 

 4-leaved petaloid involucre, and springing from the axil of the 

 forked extremity of the stem. E. Bot. t. 310. 



Alpine pastures in Northumberland and Scotland : especially in turf 

 bogs on the Highland mountains. Fl. July, Aug. 1l.~Root creeping. 

 Stems about 6 inches high. Umbel terminal, from the axil of 2 young 

 branches, which do not exceed the general flowerstalk in height, till the 

 fruit is ripe. Drupes red, said by the Highlanders to create appetite, 

 and hence called Lus-u-chraois, plant of gluttony. {Lijhtf.) 



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