116 OCTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA, Paris. 



OGTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. 



PARIS.' Herb Paris. 



P. quadrifolia. Common Herb Paris. Leaves egg- 

 shaped, mostly four, fixed to the top of the stalk. E. 

 B. 7. Herba Paris. G. E. 405. Baxter's plates, 6. 



Groves, shady places* * Headington Wick Copse. Sb. Wood in 

 Mungewell. John Oglander, Esq. Wytham Wood. Bx. 



Per. May. 



Stem simple, about one f. Styles purplish-black, hardly so long as 

 the berry. Blossoms pale-green. CaL-leaflets green. Four 

 oval, stalkless Is., whorled at the top of the stalk, with a single, 

 greenish, central fl. and afterwards black berry. 



Four the prevailing number in this singular plant. Ls. three or 

 five sometimes. Roots emetic, dose twice the quantity of ipeca- 

 cuanha. Berry narcotic. 



'ADOXA.^ Moschatell.5 



A. Moschatellina. Tuberous M. E. B. 453. C. 2. 

 26. Radix cava minima viridi flore. G. E. 1091. 



Groves, thickets, shady hedges. Shotover Plantations. Southleigh. 

 Woods near Ashford Mills. Sb. 



Per. u4pril. 



Stem-root of fleshy, tiled scales, with fibres from the interstices. 

 Herb pale-green, fleshy, smooth. Stem erect, three or four 

 inches. Ls. root-ones, doubly ternate, wedge-shaped, lobed ; 

 those on the stem three-cleft, opposite, simple, shorter stalked. 

 Fl. in a head of five, stalkless, whitish-green fl. : four of them 

 from the side of the st«m. The terminal one, having but eight 

 stam, refeiTed by Linn, to Octandria, according to his rule. 

 Caps, of four cells, invested with fleshy cal. 



(ELATINE. Water-wort. 



E. tripetala. Small TV. Leaves opposite, rough, with 

 minute points. Flowers mostly three-cleft. E. Hydro- 

 piper. E. B. 955. E. hexandra. H. 



Margins of ponds or ditches, sandy soil. Near Binfield, Berks. Mr. 



T. F. Forster. Sm. Eng. Fl. 

 An. July, Auynst. 



Aquatic herb, not unlike Montia.) 



• From par, paris, equal, Lat. from the equality of the number four in this 

 plant. 



2 Gr. Inglorious. From its modest, unassuming appearance, as it emerges 

 from its wintry bed of dry leaves. 



3 From the musky smell of the fl. 



