1190 BUXUS. [CLASS XXI. ORDER 1¥. 
three partite. Corolla urceolate, contracted at the mouth, and 
obsoletely toothed. Style long. Capsule single seeded.—Name 
littus, the shore ; in allusion to the situation in which the plant 
grows. 
1. L. lacus'tris, Linn. (Fig. 1448.) Plantain Shore-weed. 
English Botany, t. 468.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 130.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol i. p. 344.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 169. 
Root long fleshy cord-like fibres, from a fleshy crown, and with 
several lateral runners. Leaves radical, linear, sub-cylindrical, 
entire, fleshy, slightly channeled above, from two to four inches long, 
spreading. Scapes mostly several, slender, erect, shorter than the 
leaves, bearing a terminal barren flower, having a pale green mono- 
phylous calyx, cut into four lanceolate segments, erect, corolla pale, 
thin, membranous, urceolate, with a four-cleft spreading limb. 
Stamens from the bottom of the tube, with long slender filaments and 
rather large ovate two celled yellow anthers. Fertile flowers sessile at 
the base of the scapes, inconspicuous. Calyx of three lanceolate 
concave membranous pieces. Corolla oblong, tubular, tapering at 
each end, investing the germen, its mouth somewhat toothed. Style 
long, filiform. Stigma at the point of the style. Capsule oblong, 
tapering, single seeded. 
Habitat.—Watery places in sandy and stony districts; abundant 
in the Highland lakes, forming matted tufts. 
Perennial; flowering in June. 
GENUS X. BUX'US.—Linn. Boz. 
Nat. Ord. EupnHorsia’cem. Juss. 
Gen. Cuar. Flowers clustered, axillary. Barren flowers with 
three partite calyx, and a corolla of two pieces. Fudiments of a 
germen, two lobed scales. Stamens four, inserted into the rudi- 
ments of the germen. Fertile flowers with a four partite calyx, 
and a corolla of three pieces. Styles three. Stigmas three, 
obtuse. Capsules with three horns, three celled, each cell two 
seeded._Name “ altered from rv&os, the Greek name for this 
tree.” —Hooker. 
1. B. sempervi'rens, Linn. (Fig. 1449.) Common Bow-tree. Leaves 
ovate oblong, convex, coriaceous, shining, their stalks slightly hairy ; 
anthers ovate, sagittate. 
English Botany, t. 1341.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 132.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 845.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 223. 
A small tree or shrub, with square green branches, often downy. 
Leaves ovate oblong, often notched at the apex, of a rather thick 
leathery texture, of a dark smooth shining green above, channeled, 
with the sunken mid-rib concave and pale beneath, each on a short 
