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[ Tilla^'a. 



1 . Till/e'a Linn. Tilliea. 



C«Z. 3-4-partite. P^/. distinct, acuminate, Stam. ^-a 

 Folhdes J^- seeded, constricted in the middle. Ilypo^ynon^ 

 glands oDscure or ^yanting. _ Named after MicJmel Ario-eh 

 1 lUi, an Italian Botanist. * 



1 T. muscosa L. {mossy T.) ; stems branched and decumbent 

 at tJie base, flowers axillary sessile mostly 3-cleft, 

 t. 116. 



E. B, 



On moist, barren, sandy heaths, principally in Norfolk and Suffolk 

 Har.ts and Dorsetshire. 0. 6, 7. — A minute succulent plant' 

 scarcely 2 inches high with small, reddish, opposite, oblon<. blunt 

 leaves. Cal. leaves mostly 3, bristle -pointed. Petals \ery small al- 

 most subulate, white or tipped with rose colour. ' 



2. Cotyledon Linn. Pennywort. 



Cal 5-partite. Pet. united into a tubular or campanulate 

 corolla. Stam. 10, inserted upon the tube of the corolla Fol- 

 licles many-seeded, each with a scale at its base. — JSTamed from 

 KOTvXn, a cup, to which the leaves of some of the species mav 

 bear a distant resemblance. '•'^ 



1. C. 



( Wall P.) 



(usually) 



- - - y^^^^^^...j J u.iiijt/iv^ J. Circuit; ui 



penuulous flowers, upper bracteas minute entire, corolla scarcely 

 £ B^'^t 325 "'"^'^^''' ^"^""^ ''^''**' ^''''^^ ^^^''^' ^''^ tuberous. 



Rocks walls and old buildings, especially in subalpine countries, 

 i; 6-8. — Whole plant succulent. Stem from 6 inches to a foot 

 high Leaves rnostly radical. Flowers cylindrical, yellowish -green 

 [C. lutea Huds., E B. t. 1522, having erect flowers, patuloi.; 

 narrow and acuminated lobes to the corolla, and toothed bracteas is 

 trom 1 ortugal, and must have been introduced into the British Flora 

 by mistake. It is by no means a hardy garden-plant.] 



Cal.Q 



3. SemperviVum Linn. House-leek. 



~20-cIeft. .Pe^. distinct, or slightly united at the base. 

 ihZ' Tir'l ™'"^ ^' the petals, or as many and opposite to 

 fi! ?• A "lany-seeded ; hypogynous scales laciniated, 



toothed or none. -:^^ame_ derived from semper, always, and 

 VIVO, to live; on account of its tenacity of life D r ^ 



1. S. *tect6rum L. (common H. 



leaves ciliated, off-sets 



Ts^thi't" '^''^' '' '"'^'' '"^ ^"^'^ ^' the 'margin's. 



House-tops and on walls 11 7 . Tlio ^^. c .^ ' it ^ 



«,wi 4.- J- • 1 . ^'^^^^' ^' '■ J^nQ flowers of this well-known 



Is biaudfTr h"": '"' unquestionably not indigenous plant a^e no 

 le.s beautiful than they are curious in their structure. The number 



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