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PLATE ‘COCLZASI. 
POLYGALA ALOPECUROIDES. 
wos Fox-tail Milkwort. 
CLASS XVI. ORDER Ul. 
DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Eight Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx 5-phyllus, foliolis duobus alzeformibus, 
coloratis. Legumen obcordatum, biloculare. 
Cur 5-leaved, with two of the leaves like wings, 
coloured. Pod inverse heart-shaped, two- 
celled. _ 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Poryeata, floribus imberbibus, pedunculis so- PotyeGara, with flowers beardless, peduncles 
litariis axillaribus, foliis fasciculatis ovatis solitary axillary, leaves fascicled egg- 
mucronatis margine ciliatis. Willd, Sp. Pl. shaped mucronated and ciliated on the 
890. margin. 
P. floribus imberbibus lateralibus, foliis fas- P. with flowers beardless lateral, leaves fasci- 
ciculatis lanceolatis mucronatis villosis. culated lance-shaped mucronated and vil- 
Thunb, Prod. 121. lose. 
Descriptio. Suffrutex elegans, ramulis hirtis, Folia valde conferta, fasciculata, pone medium 
recurva, 5—6 in singulo fasciculo, infimo majore, latiore, stipuliforme ; omnia lineari-lanceolata, 
_ mucronata, hirta, ad margines valde ciliata. Flores axillares, sessiles, solitarii, minuti, purpurascentes, 
serrulati 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The empalement magnified. 
2. The kee] magnified. 
3. One of the wings magnified. 
4. The chives and pointal magnified. 
5. The pointal detached and magnified. 
cee ania 
Tuis is the Polygala of the Heisteria family, which we last month engaged to lay before out readers. 
They will now have an opportunity, from our copious dissections of the flowers, of judging of the great 
and numerous generical differences ich exist between a genuine Polygala and the. discarded genus 
Heisteria. All the Heisterie we haye yet had an opportunity of examining are heptandrous; all the 
true Polygalze octandrous: but these are the least of their distinctions. 
The Fox-tail Milkwort is a very elegant shrub of the green-house kind, and is often in flower. It 
‘was recently raised from Cape seeds in the Clapham collection, and is at present, we believe, in no other : 
thrives well in a mixture of bog earth and loam, and is capable of propagation by cuttings. 
