THE BRITISH AER og 
and the feveral kinds of /axifrages were fuppofed 
to pofftfs it, thefe had their fhare in the cha- 
racter, 
5. Upright, ‘branched Pearlwort. 
Alfinella ramofior ereéta. 
The root is compofed of fmall and flendet 
fibres, pe 
The ftalks are numerous and flender 3 fome 
of them lie upon the ground, but the greater 
part are erect: they are round, flender, and of a 
pale green. : 
The leaves are very narrow and oblong: they 
are placed two at each joint, and thofe joints are 
at diftances on the ftalk, 
From the bofom of almoft every leaf rifes a 
hoot, which is afterwards branched out into 
other divifions; fo that the whole plant is buthy, 
and about four inches high, 
The flowers are fmall and white: they ftand at 
the tops of all the branches, and alfo on fingle 
footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves, 
The feed-veflel is large, rounded, and com- 
prefied ; and the feeds are large, and not nume- 
yous. 
It is common on heaths in many parts of the 
kingdom, and flowers in June, 
DIVISION ' I. 
i. Tall, long-leaved Pearlwort. 
Alfinella elatior foliis longioribus anguftis. 
The root is long, flender, white, and furnifhed 
with many fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, very flender, not 
much branched, and fix inches high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and at confi- 
derable diftances, on the ftalk : they are long, and 
very narrow, of a beautiful grafs-oreen, and 
fharp-pointed. 
The flowers are {mall and white: they ftand 
at the tops of the ftalks, and of young fhoots that 
rife from the bofoms of the leaves, and fome few 
on long, flender footftalks, that rife immediately 
from the bofoms of thofe leaves, whence there 
are no other fhoots, 
"The feed-veffél is round, and the feeds are 
Very minute. 
It is frequent on the mountains on the northern 
parts of Europe, and flowers in July. 
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_Magnol calls it Polygonuin angippiffimo framinea 
Selo ereéum, Ray, Alfino polygonoides tenutfolig 
Slofculis ad longitud nem catlis velut in Seicam dif- 
poitis. 
6, Short, many-leaved Pearlwort, 
Alfinella foliis brevikus numerofis, 
The root is fender, 
The ftalks are numerous, 
four inches high: they are 
not much branched, 
The leaves ftand in pairs ; 
ways many fhoots of young one 
bofoms : they are thort, 
a dufky green. . ( 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches, and from the bofoms of the leaves alfo 
there rife pedicles fuppotting feveral: 
{mall, white, and quickly fade. 
The feed-veffel {mall, and the fee 
rous and minute, 
flender, upright, and 
of a pale green, ‘and 
fomewhat broad, and of 
they are 
ds are nume- 
We have it on wet ground in the Ile of Ely, 
It flowers in July, 
Ray calls it Afinaftrum gratiole folio, 
Frequently the whole plant is red, 
FOREIGN SPECIES, 
C. Bauhine calls it Ane montana capillacto folio’, 
and others borrow the fame name, 
2. Large-flowered Pearlwort, 
AYinella foliis majoribus flore aliquantulum majore; 
The root is compofed of 4 few filaments: 
The ftalks are numerous, erect, flender, and 
very much branched : ‘they are of a pale green, 
and their joints are at fall diftances, 
The leaves ftand two at each joint, 
are {mall, fhort, and narrow, 
The flowers are larger than in moft of thefe 
plants, but they are not very confiderable : they 
are white, and are placed at the tops of the 
branches, and on footttalks from the bofoms of 
the leaves; 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are few, 
It is frequent in Germany, and flowers in April. 
Columna calls it Aifne ramofa glabra, 
and they 
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rpuE flower is compofed of four petals regularly difpofed : the feed-veffel is oval, and made 
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of eight valves ; it contains eight cells, and in each a fingle feed: the cup is formed of a fingle 
piece, divided into numerous, flender fegments. 
Linnzus makes this a fpecies of Jinum or flax, though it contradi& the who. 
There is but. one known fpecies of it, and that is a native of Britain, 
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