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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



VII. FLCEKKEA SERIES. 



The ouly species for a long time known as the genus Flmrkea ^ has 

 flowers in three or more rarely four parts ; it is better to study 

 another whose flowers are pentamerous, or exceptionally tetramerous, 



FlarTcca (Limnanthes) Dotiglasit. 



Fig. 50. Floriferous branch. 



which is often cultivated in gardens under the name of Limnanthes "^ 

 Doiijjlasll^ (fig 50-54). The floral receptacle is surbased and bears 

 a calj'x of five valvate sepals and a regular corolla of five alternate 



' F. proscrpiiioicks W. in Neiic Sdir. Ges. 

 Nat. Fi: Berl. iii. 448.— Touit. et Gray FI. N. 

 Amer. i. 210. — 11. Br. in Loud, iind lidiiih. Pliil. 

 Mag. (1833), ii. 70. — Lin-dl. in Hooli. Jonrn. of 

 Bat. ; i. t. 1 (7fo.v«c.).— Endl. Gen. n. 6065.— A. 

 Gray, Oeii. 111. t. 154 ; Man. cd. 5, 108.— B. H. 

 Oeii. 275, n. 9.— H. Bn. in Adaiisoiiia x. 362. — 

 Walp. liip. i. 467. — F. nliginosa Muelh. Cat. 



ZQ.—F. laciistri.iVEV.S.Enchirid. i. 393.— i^". ;w- 

 liistfii KuTT. Ocn. i. 228. — Nectris piniiata 

 PuRSH, FI. Snr.-Amer.i. 239. 



- R. Bii. in Loud, and Edinb. Phil. Mag. Inr. 

 cil. (1833).- Endl. Gen. n. 6066.— Payer, 

 Organng. 51, t. 10.— B. H. Oen. 374, n. 8. 



3 R. Br. toe. ciY.- Lindl. in Bot. Meg. t. 1673. 

 —Bid. Mag. t. 3.554. 



