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XLn. CAPRirOLIACE^. 



Thickets, Hertfordshire, Near 

 Houghton Bridf^e, near Arundel, 



shruhy with 

 bright scarlet 



Sewenshele, 

 Sussex. Tj . 



[,Linncc'a. 



Northumberland, 

 ^> 6. — An erect 



pale, yellowish, small, scentless, flowers, succeeded bv 

 herries. There being no allied species in this couutr/ 

 we can scarcely suppose that this has not been accidentally nat 

 lised by man or birds. 



4. LiNN^^A Gronov, Linn^a. 



CalAinib 5-cleft. Cor. campanulate, 5-cleft, equal. Stam 

 4, didynamous. Fruit a dry, 3-celIed lerry^ with one cell only 

 bearing a perfect seed. Involucre of about 4 leaves at the base 

 of the gerinen. — Name: — It was this ''little northern plant 

 long overlooked, depressed, abject, flowering early," -which 

 Linna3us himself selected as therefore most appropriate to 

 transmit his name to posterity. Sm. 



1. L. horedlis Gronov. {two-fiowered L^ E, B. t. 433. 



Woods in Scotland, especially of Fir, more rarely in open rocky 

 and mossy situations, chiefly in the counties of Perth, Forfar In". 

 verness, and Aberdeen. Rare and perhaps only naturalised on the 

 south of the Tay ; banks of the Esk, at Dalhousie. Hartburn 

 Northumberland. 2^. 7. —^/ems trailing, filiform, branched. Leaves 

 opposite, broadly ovate, stalked, obscurely crenate, Pe^wwcZes axillary, 



long, erect, S-flowered, or occasionally from luxuriance 3 4 flowered' 



Flowers fragrant, graceful, drooping; pedicels, bracteas, involucre 

 globose germen and caJyx^ all clothed with glandular hairs. ' 



Orb. XLIIL KUBIACEiE e/w^^. 



Calyx adherent with the ovary, entire or toothed at the 



Stamens inserted upon the corolla 



margin. 



Corolla regular. 



and between its divisions. 



^ ^fy^^ 1- Ovary l/with 2 or more 



Enibryo straight, surrounded bj a horny albumen, 

 Iiamcle interior. ' " •■' • - .-•'._ 



cells. 



ivhorled. 



Leaves opposite with hiterpetiolar stipules or 

 . ^ . -^ ^ "'0,^^ important natural family. All the species 

 found in Europe be ong to the group called Stellatce or RuliacecB 

 proper, and have, ^besides the above characters, a 4— 5-lobed 

 corolla valvular m aestivation, 4-5 stamens, a bipartite or 

 bihd style, 2 capitate stigmas, a 2.celled 2-seeded pericarp, 

 and slender herbaceous square stems with whorled leaves : 

 their roots yield a dye. Those individuals having woody, or 

 shrubby rarely herbaceous stems, and opposite and stipuled 

 leaves, afford Peruvian Bark, in the various species of Cinchona ; 

 Gambeer, m Nauclea; a febrifuge, in Condaminea and Konde- 

 letia; powerful emetics m Psychotria and Cephaelis, especiallv 

 C. Ipecacuanha which is the true or Brazilian Ipecacuanha, in 

 hpermacoce and Pichardsonia : these, together with Cojea, the 



Co#ee-;ree,&c., are natives of worm pi;^a+oc ^ ' 



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