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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



VII. FLŒKKEA SERIES. 



The only species for a long time known as the genus Flœrkca^ has 

 flowers iu three or more rarely foiir parts ; it is better to study 

 another whose flowers are peutamerous, or exceptionally tetramerous, 



FJcerJcea (Limnanthes) Bouglasli. 



Fig. 60. Floriferous br.inch. 



which is often cultivated in gardens under the name of Limnanthcs ^ 

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

 a calyx of five yalvate sepals and a regular corolla of five alternate 



1 F. proserpiiioitles "W. in Neue Schr. Ges. 

 Nat. Fr. JBerl. iii. 4-48.— Tokr. et Gray Fl. N. 

 Amer. i. 210.— R. Bk. in Loud, and Edinb. Phil. 

 Mag. (1833), ii. 70. — Lindl. in Sook: Jo%irn. of 

 Bot. ; i. t. 1 (ifosw.).— Endl. Gen. n. 6065.— A, 

 GiiAY, Gi'i,. III. t. 154 ; Man. ed. 5, 108.— B. H. 

 Ocn. 275, n. 9.— H. Bn. in Adansonia x. 362. — 

 Walp. Rep. i. 467. — F. tiliginosa Muelh. Cat. 



36.— i^. lamstris Pers. Enchiri'd. i. 393.— i'. pa- 

 histrii NuTT. Oeii. i. 228. — Neclris pinnata 

 PuESH, Fl. Bnr.-Amcr.i. 239. 



- R. Bii. in Lnnd. and Edinh. Phil. Mag. toe. 

 cit. (1833).— Endl. Gen. n. 6066.— Payer, 

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



3 R. Br. loe. ciY.- Lindl. in Bot. lieg. t. 1673. 

 — Bot. Mag. t. 3564. 



