166 OCTANDRIA — TETRAGYNTA. [Elatine. 



OCTANDRIA— TETRAGYNIA. 



11. Paris. Linn. Herb Paris. 



1. P. quadrifolia, L. (common Herb Paris); leaves ovate 4 in 

 a wliorl. E. Bot. t. 7. 



Muist and wet shady woods, in many parts of England and Scotland. 

 KiiJarncy, Ireland. Fl. May, June. IJ! . — Stem 1 f. high, with 4, rarely 

 5, whorled, large, ovate, acute leaves at its summit, the rest leafless. 

 Fluwer single, terminal, on a footstalk about 2 inches long. Cal. of 4 

 linear-lanceolate, green leaflets ; petals similar to these, but narrower 

 and more yellow. Roots purgative. Berry esteemed poisonous ; but 

 it has been employed in curing inflammation in the eyes. 



12. Adoxa. Linn. Moschatell. 



1. A. moschatellina, L. (tuberous Moschatell). £J. Bot. t. 46S. 



Woods, hedge-banks and shady places ; not unfrequent at a great 

 elevation and even upon the tops of Highland mountains. Fl. April, 

 May. If.. — Hoot composed of tooth-like scales, creeping. Stc7Ji about 

 a span high. Leaves 2 — 3, radical, on very long fooistallis, triternate, 

 lobed and cut, 2 cauline ones small and simply ternate. Peduncle single, 

 terminal, with a head of 4, verticillate J?ozf)ers, and a fifth terminal one. 

 Stamens united in pairs, or they may be considered as 4 — 5 forked 

 stamens, each ramification terminated by the single cell of an anther, 

 and all springing from a fleshy ring that surrounds the upper part of the 

 germen. The flowers have an evident musky smell in the evening, or 

 early in the morning while the dew is on them. 



13. Elatine. Linn. Water- wort. 



1. E. hexdndra, De Cand. (small hexandrous Water-warty; 

 leaves opposite spathulate, flowers alternate pedicellate erect 

 hexandrous tripetalous, capsule turbinate concave at the summit 

 3-celled, seeds about twelve in each cell straight ascending. 



Beicli. Jc. Bot. t. 413. — E. tripelala, E. FL v. u. p. 243 E. 



Hydropiper, E. Bot. t. 935. (not Z.) 



Margins of ponds and ditches, rare. Bomere pool, near Condover, 

 Shropshire, Rev. E. Williams ; near Binfield, Berks, JMr T. F. Forster. 

 Near Crawley, Sussex, JMr Borrer. Coleshill pool, Warwickshire, 

 Dr Lloydd. Very rare in Scotland, and only found at Loch Ruisky, 

 near Callander, by Mr G. Lyon. Fl. July, Aug. 0. — A minute, pro- 

 cumbent, much branching plant, with axillary %o\\iwcy flowers. Petals 

 rose-coloured. Seeds most beautifully ribbed and transversely striated. 



2. E. Hydropiper, L. (small octandrous Water-wort); leaves 

 opposite spathulate, flowers alternate sessile erect octandrous 

 tetrapetalous, calyx shorter than the petals, segments ligulate, 

 capsule roundish depressed 4-celled, seeds 16 in each cell pen- 

 dulous much curved. Hook, in E. Bot. Sttppl. t. 2670. (not Sm.^ 



Discovered in 1830, by 3Ir J. E. Bowman, at the E. end of Llyn 

 Coron, Anglesea, growing with E. hexandra. Ireland, near Newry, 

 Mr Thompson of Belfast : and at the Lagan canal, where it enters 

 Loch Neagh, the same spot where Sherard first discovered the Suh- 

 ularia aquatica, upwards of a century ago, Mr D. Moore. 



