218 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Sanguisorba. 



as long as the stain. Stigma notched. Caps, quadrangular, 

 hard, not bursting, of 1 cell. Seed 1, or ^, elliptical. 



Plerbaceous, with pinnate, serrated leaves. Spikes dense, the 

 ■a.^Y'^v Jlowers earliest. Germen with 2 or 4 bracteas at the 

 base. 



The unquestionable affinity of this genus to the natural class 

 Icosandria of Linnagus, induces me to conform to Jussieu's 

 ideas, so far as to take for a cali/x, what Linnaean botanists 

 have hitherto called corolla. Yet even Jussieu candidly 

 expresses his doubts in this case ; and I am well aware of 

 the danger of allovdng metaphysical speculations, to inter- 

 fere with common sense, in Botany or any other science. 

 Whether the originally thin outer coat of the germen 

 should be taken for the body or tube of the calyx, as in 

 Rosa, may admit of a question. That and the I'est of the 

 germen certainly become together a hardened pericarp), or 

 capsule, which part in Rosa is pulpy. I have seen but 1 

 seed, and 1 style in Sanguisorba, as represented by La- 

 marck. Jussieu describes 2. 



1. S. officinalis. Great Burnet. 

 Spikes ovate. 



S. officinalis. Linn. Sp. PL 1G9. M^'illd. v. 1. 653. n. Br. 18fi. 



Engl. Bot. V. 19. t.\3i2. Mart. Rust. t. \42. Hook. Scot. 54. 



Fl. Dan. t. 97. 

 S. major, flore spadiceo. Rail Sijn. 203. Bauli. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 



120./. 

 S. major. Fuchs. Hist. 788./. 

 Pimpinella n. 705. Hall. Hist. i'. 1.311. 

 P. sive Sanguisorba major. Matth. Falgr. v. 2.330. f. Camer. 



Epit.778.f. 

 P. sylvestris. Ger. Em. 1045. 



In meadows and pastures, on u calcareous soil, that are rather 

 moist ; chiefly in the north of England ; more sparingly in the 

 lowlands of Scotland. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root strong, somewhat woody, astringent. Herb smooth. Stem 

 2 feet high, erect, furrowed, leafy ; panicled above. Leaves of 

 4 or 5 pair of heart-shaped, stalked, obtuse, strongly serrated, 

 veiny leajlets, with or without small sessile intermediate ones : 

 those on the stem alternate, smallest, with a pair of large, round- 

 ed, cut stipulas, united to the base of the common footstalk: 

 radical ones with very long footstalks. Spikes about an inch 

 long, dull purple, dense, on long flower-stalks. Bracteas green, 

 fringed, 4 under each flower ; the c«??/xof Linneeus. Ca/. very 

 hairy externally at the base, .S'^'gwrt 4-cleft, Seec/ solitary. 



