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GEKANIACE*: 



with broadly-ovate, obtuse stipules ; floiv/n pink. — Waste places ; 

 rare, not indigenous inland,— Fl. Ju'ie, July- Annual. 



3. E. mnritiiiiuiii (Se:i stork'.s-bill). — A small plant, roughish, 

 with muiute hairs, and sending out several leafy slcim, which lie 

 remarkably close to the ground ; the kairs are not pinnate, as in 

 the other British species, but ovate, cordate, arid crenately lobed ; 

 and the /('(/////(■/« bear one or two minute, generally apetalous, 

 flowers. — Sandy places near the sea, especially in the west of 

 England ; rare. Like many other seaside plants, it is not un- 

 frequently met with in inland, mountainous districts, occurring 

 plentifully on Dartmoor, in Devonshire, many miles from the sea. 

 — Fl. all the summe''. Perennial. 



3. 6xALis (Wood-sorrel). — Acid herbs with sensitive, ternate 

 leaves; flowers on axillary, i- or riiore-fiowered peduncles, 



polysyriimetric ; sepals 5, united 

 below, imbricate ; petals 5, often 

 united below, convolute; stamens 

 10, monadelphous, the 5 outer 

 ones shorter; ovary 5-cham- 

 bered \^styles 5 ; fruit a capsule ; 

 seeds with an elastic testa, which 

 splits hygroscopically, throwing 

 the body of the seed to a distance. 

 (Name, from the Greek oxi'ts., 

 acid.) 



T. O. Aeetosella (Common 

 ^\'ood - sorrel. Alleluia). — An 

 elegant, little plant with a creep- 

 ing ;7z/:;(?otc and delicate, radical, 

 trefoil, hairy leaves, which, 

 though, not so sensitive as some 

 foreign' species, fold together ver- 

 tically at night, being thus pro- 

 o.'iALi^ ACETCKftiJA (C,i»;«w« ;rs,),i'-ivr;,7). tected from radiated cold. The 



pedinicle, has two bracts about 

 the middle and is single-flowered ; and the phncers have obovate 

 white or \i\:^c-\tPmQd petals. Apetalous, cleistogene seed-\ielding 

 flowers are produced later in the seasoij,' as in the violets (see 

 p. 64). — \Voods and shady places ; common. — Fl. April— August. 

 Perennial. 



2.''-' O. striela, a downy jjlant with ]irostrate branched stem 

 without runners, and j- ^-iloweix-d 'pediiiiaes bearing yellow 

 _;7r/7i''(7-i-, may be indigenous m Devon and Cornwall. — I<"l. |une — 

 September. Annual. 



