yicer.] HYPEEICACE4!. — ACERACE^. 93 



In spongy bogs, shallow ditches, drains and watery moory ground ; frequent 

 Fl. July, Agust. 2|. 



In ditches on the western skirts of Lake common, abundantly in several places. 

 In the moors near Godshill. Ditches in the boggy valley of the Medina, about 

 Cridmore, Bookley, &c. 



Capsule unilocular, without any placenta, according to Aug. St. Hilaire. See 

 obs. on the genus Sarotltrum in Hooker's Bot. Misc. vol. iii. p. 236. 



III. Paenassia, Linn. Grass of Parnassus. 



" Stamens with as many intermediate nectaries fringed with 

 globular-headed filaments." — Br. Fl. 



I. v. pal'ustris, h. Common Grass of Parnassus. "Bristles of 

 the nectary 9—13, leaves cordate cauline one amplexicaul." — Br. 

 Fl. p. 51. E. B. t. 82. 



In bogs and marshy meadows ; extremely rare. Fl. August — October. If. 



Found many years ago on a piece of boggy land known as the Moor or Wil- 

 liams's Moor, at Oakfield, St. John's, by Mr. John Lawrence, gardener to [the 

 late] Sir R. Simeon, Bart. The meadow has since been drained, and the plant 

 is extinct. Arreton ! Mr. G. Kirkpatrick, who finds it is so marked in his copy 

 of B. T. W., but does not remember gathering it there. 



A plant with flowers of great beauty and singularity of structure, the natural 

 affinities of which, from its anomaly in this respect, are not well ascertained. 



Order XVIII. ACEEACE^, Juss. 



" Calyx 4 — 5 — 9 partite, imbricated in aestivation. Petals of 

 the same number, with scarcely any claw, inserted into the mar- 

 gin of an hypogynous disk, or wanting. Stamens about 8, inserted 

 on the disk. Ovary 2-lobed, 2-celled. Style 1. Stigmas 2. 

 Fruit a double samara, each 1-celled, with 1 or 2 erect seeds. 

 Albumen 0. Emhryo curved, with foliaceous wrinkled cotyledons, 

 and an inferior radicle." — Br. Fl. 



I. AcEE, Linn. Maple. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx lobed or paxtite. Corolla of 

 several petals. 



" In massy foliage of a sunny green 



The splendid sycamore adorns the spring, 

 Adding rich beauties to the varied scene. 



That Nature's breathing arts alone can bring. 

 Hark ! how the insects hum around, and sing, 

 Like happy Ariels hid from heedless view — 

 And merry bees, that feed, with eager wing. 



On the broad leaves, glaz'd o'er with honey dew. 

 The fairy sunshine gently flickers through 

 Upon the grass, and butter-cups below ; 

 And in the foliage winds their sports renew. 



Waving a shade romantic to and fro. 

 That o'er the mind in sweet disorder flings 

 A flitting dream of Beauty's fading things." 



Clare, Rural Muse, p. 128. 



