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raent of the capsule with 4 angles (thus formin"- 4 cells^ cells 

 1 -seeded. U. B. t. 892. ° 



Gravelly sterile soils, inland and upon the coast. ©, 6,7. 



Leaves mostly spreading, very variable in size and pubescence pin- 

 natihd; se^rments often toothed or again divided. Scape hairy 

 Spike mostly cylindrical and slender. In small specimens from Staffa, 

 the spike is ovate, composed of not more than 7 or 8 flowers ; whilst 

 the leaves and scapes are quite hispid. 



2. LiTTOKELLA Linu. Shore-weed. 



jl. Cal. of 4 leaves. Cor. 4-fid, txibe 



fl* CaL (unless 



Moncecious, 

 cylindrical. Stam. 4. hypocrynous. 



three bracteas can be so called). Cor. urceolate, contracted at 

 the mouth, 3— 4-cleft. %Ze very long. i^>«i7 hard and some- 

 what bony, mdehiscent, 1-celIed, 1-seeded. — :Named from 

 Utliis^ the shore; from its place of growth. 



1. L. laeustris L. {Plantain S.) ; E. B, t. 468. 



In watery, sandy, and stony places ; particularly abundant on tiie 

 margins of the Highland lakes, where it forms a gTeen turf. 2jL. G. 

 ■'Leaves^ all radical, linear, fleshy, semicylindrical, about 2 inches 



Sterile flowers stalked, solitary, sometimes 2 {Mr, W. Wilson) 

 upon a scape 2—3 inches long. Fertile fl. sessile in the axils of 

 the leaves, surrounding the sterile peduncles. Germen obiong, «-reen 

 Slf/le very long, filiform. Stigma a mere point. ° ^ 



long 



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Suh-Class IV. MO:J^OCIILAMYDE^.i (Orb. LXIX 



LXXXVII.) 



Flowers incom.plete. Perianth single ; in other icords, the Calyx 

 aud Corolla forming hut one floral covering, or altogethe 



wanting. 



■COA^SPECTUS OF THE ORDERa, 



A. Barren flowers neither ire catkins nor cones; frnit not surrounded by a 



hardened or prickly involucre. Stifle or stigma present.^ 



Ovaries superior, several^ distinct, each 1-celled, 



[1. RANUNCULACE.E. Stamens hypogynous. Leaves without stipules. 

 ^/. KosACE^.. § Sanguisorbid.^. Stamcns perigvnous. Stipules co- 



with the petiole.] " 



hering 



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Ovary superior, solitary, l-celled» 



14. 



t Ovides 5 or more. Fruit capsular^ opening by valves, 



PuiMULACE^. Perianth campanulate. Style 1. 



Oakyophyllace^. § Ai^iNE^. Sepals distinct or nearly 

 fctyles several.] 



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f^m, one, or singles and x^w^i^f , a tunic, or garment. 



