142 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Linnaea. 



length of the superior calyx ; limb in 5 deep, nearly equal, 

 slightly spi'eading segments. Filam. awl-shaped, from 

 the base of the corolla, shorter than its limb ; the 2 up- 

 permost shortest. Anth. incumbent, versatile, oblong, 

 compressed. Germ, globular, below the calyx of the 

 flower, of 3 cells. Style cylindrical, slightly swelling up- 

 ward, declining, the length of the corolla. Stigma ob- 

 tuse. Berry dry, ovate-oblong, of 1 cell, membranous, 

 closely invested with the inferior calyx, and crowned with 

 the superior one. Seed solitary, filling the cavity, ovate- 

 oblong, with a thin simple skin ; embryo inverted, in the 

 centre of the fleshy albumen, with a pair of oblong coty- 

 ledons turned downward. 

 A trailing, somewhat shrubby plant, the only known spe- 

 cies, of an elegant aspect, and rendered most interesting 

 to a botanist on account of the name, given with the con- 

 currence of Linnaeus, by his friend Dr. J. F. Gronovius, 

 whose letters to Dr. Richardson, with many particulars 

 concerning him and his works, may be found in the Lin- 

 ncean Correspondence, v. 2. Dr. Wahlenberg has im- 

 proved the description of the fruit, and I have profited 

 by his labours. They sanction the Linnsean opinion of 

 a two-fold calyx, the inferior one serving as a protecting 

 covering to \!i\e fruit. 



1. L. borealis. Two-flowered Linnaea. 



L. borealis. Linn. Sp. PI. 880. H. Suec. 2 1 9. M . FL Lapp. ed. 

 ■ 2. 2\4. t. \2. f. 4. lVilld.v. 3.340. Fl.Br.666. Engl. Bot.v.7. 



t.433. Tr. of Linn. Sac. V. 3. 333. With.bb6. Hook. Scot. ]90. 

 • Wahlenb. Lapp. 1 70. t. 9./. 3. Ft. Dan. t. 3. Ehrh. Phyt.5. 

 L. n. 299. Hall. Hist. V. 1. 131. 

 Campanula seipyllifolia. Bauh. Prodr. 35. f. Rndb. Act. Suec. 



for 1720. 96. t. 1. 

 Nummularia Norwegica repens, folio dentato, floribus geminis. 



Petiv. Cent. 8. 76. n. 787. 



In dry stony shady fir woods among the mountains of Scotland, 



First found in an old fir wood at Inglismaldie on the borders of 

 MearnsshirCj in 1795. Prof. James Beattie, jun. Dr. Hooker 

 mentions several similar stations in the Highlands or their 

 borders. 



Perennial, May, June. 



Root fibrous. Stems trailing and creeping, forming broad leafy 

 patches, branched, woody, nearly round ; the young shoots hairy 

 and leafy. Leaves opposite, on footstalks about half their own 

 length, roundish, or ovate, mostly bluntish, veiny, firm ; crenate 

 in the forepart ; slightly hairy, and of a full green, above ; paler 



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