PEIMULACE^. 357 



1. Sea Glaux. Glaux maritima, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 13. Sea Milkwort. Blach Saltivort) 



A low, decumbent, brandling }3erennial, glabrous and often slightly suc- 

 culent, from 3 to 4 or 5 rarely fi inches high, with a more or less creeping 

 rootstock. Leaves small, mostly opposite, sessile, ovate or oblong, and 

 entire. Flowers of a pale pink colour, not 2 lines long. Calyx deeply 5- 

 lobed. Stamens about the same length, with slender filaments and small 

 anthers. 



On sands, salt-marshes, and muddy places, near the sea, in Europe, 

 northern Asia, and America, extending to the salt tracts and inland seas of 

 central Asia. Common on the British coasts. Fl. summer. 



Yir. pxiaPEaNEi.. anagallis. 



Procumbent or creeping herbs, with opposite leaves, and opposite axillary 

 flowers on slender pedicels. Calyx deeply cleft into 5 narrow segments. 

 Corolla 5-cleft, rotate or campanulate. Stamens 5. Capsule opening 

 transversely by a circular fissure across the middle. 



A small genus, chiefly from the Mediterranean region and central Asia, 

 with one South American species. 



Annual. Corolla rotate, blue or red 1. Common P. 



Perennial. Corolla campanulate, of a deUcate pale pink ..... 3. Sog P. 



1. Common Pimpernel. A.nag'allis arvensis, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 529. Shepherd's Weather-glass.) 



A neat, much branched, procumbent annual, 6 inches to near a foot long, 

 with opposite, broadly ovate, sessile, and entire leaves. Pedicels consider- 

 ably longer than the leaves, and roUed back as the capsule ripens. Calyx- 

 divisions pointed. Corolla rotate, usually of a bright red within, but occa- 

 sionally pale pink, or white, or bright blue. 



A very common weed of cultivation, in comBelds, gardens, waste places, 

 etc., all over Europe and Russian Asia, except the extreme north, and has 

 accompanied man in his migrations over a great part of the globe. Fl. the 

 ■ whole season. The blue variety, by some ranked as a species {A. ccerulea, 

 Eng. Bot. t. 1823), is as common in central and southern Europe as the red 

 one, but with us it is rare. 



2. Bog Pimpernel. Anag^allis tenella^ Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 530.) 



A delicate, slender, creeping perennial, only a few inches long, with very 

 small, orbicular, opposite leaves. Flowers very elegant, of a pale pink, on 

 long, slender pedicels. Segments of the calyx pointed but short. Corolla 

 narrow-campanulate, of a very delicate texture, and deeply 5-cleft. Stamens 

 erect in the centre, with very woolly filaments. 



On wet, mossy banks, and bogs, chiefly along rivulets, throughout western 

 Europe, extending eastward to north-western Germany, Tyrol, and here and 

 there round the Mediterranean. Spread over the greater part of Britain 

 but chiefly in the west, from Cornwall to Shetland, and in Ireland. Fl. 

 ttmimer. 



