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pedicels three times as long as the calyx which is longer than \^\t^^ 



the spur, segments of the upper lip of the corolla diverginjv^ \r^ \o^ 



seeds oblong furrowed, stem erect much branched. E. b\ j'^^lraJ^^ 



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t. 2014. 



Sandy fields, principally in the eastern and south-eastern parts of 

 England. Rare in Scotland: near Glasgow; Aill Water, Roxburgh, 

 shire. At Sunday's well in Ireland. ©, ' 5 — 10. — Stems 4 — lo 

 inches high, with purplish-yellow ^o?rers. 



[The Neapolitan Llnaria purpurea Mill. (Bot. Mag. t. 99) is given 

 in the New BoL Guide as being found at Redland, near Bristol, by 

 Miss Worsley. Of course it is the outcast of a garden.] 



11. LiMOSELLA Linn. Mudwort. 



Cat campanulate, 5-cleft, equal. Cor. shortly 5-cleft, cani- 

 panulate, equal. Stam, 4, nearly equal. Anthers 1 -celled. 

 Stigma capitate. Caps, globose, 2-valved, with a central pla- 

 centa v/hich is free above and connected below with a thin dissepi- 

 ment, ultimately 1-celled. — ISTamed from linius^ tnud^ the plant 

 growing in muddy places. 



1. L, aqudtica L. {common M,) ; leaves lanceolate spathulate 

 on long stalks, segments of the corolla oval-oblong much shorter 1 ^^ ^" 



than the tube of the calyx. E. B. t. 357. m"' ^y' 



. I y^i thick, 



Muddy placesj and where water has stood, in several parts of I r | j^^, 



England, Scotland, and Ireland, but often overlooked on account of i ^outa 



its small size. ©. 7 — 9. — Root creeping, fillfonn, throwing up '^ ° 



clusters of glabrous leaves one or two inches long including their 



petiole. Flowers minute, peduncled, arising from the base of the 



feaf-s^aZ/^s, resembling sca/7es which are shorter than the petioles. Cor, I '2'** *^ 



pale rose-coloured, ^wfAers purplish- blue. Seeds v/'ith a furrow on jtoesdecu 



the back and numerous transverse striae. jjiiainenslc 



12. SiBTHORPiA Liizn. Sibthorpia, Money-wort. 



CaL in 4 — 8 deep spreading segments. Cor, sub-rotate, of 

 as many segments as the calyx or with an additional one. 

 Sfam, as many as the segments of the corolla, or one fewer. 

 Anthers sagittate, 2-celled. Stigma dilated. Caps, membrana- 

 ceous, compressed, 2-celled, 2-valved, loculicidal. — Name given 

 in honour of Dr. Humphrey Sibfhorpe^ the successor of Dillenius 

 in the botanical chair at Oxford. (As here defined, the genus 

 includes Disandra Linn.) 



1. S. Europ(e^a Ij. {creeping S., or Cornish M,)', hairy, 

 leaves 7— 9-lobed, pedicels very short, flowers minute 5-cleft, 

 stamens 4, capsules broad retuse. E. B, t. 649. 



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