Poterium.] rosace^e. 149 



Tribe III. Dryadeje. 



" Fruit formed of small dry {in Rubus succulent) nuts, few, or 

 numerous and then inserted on a fleshy or succulent receptacle. 

 Calyx persistent." — Bab. Man. 



III. Geum, Linn. Avens. 



Calyx 10-cleft, alternate segments minute. Petals 5. Peri- 

 carps witb long geniculated awns. Receptacle elongated. 



1. Q.wrhanumj'L. Common Avens. Herb Bennet. "Flowers 

 erect, heads of fruit sessile, upper joint of the awn glabrous and 

 much shorter than the lower one, cauline leaves ternate, radical 

 ones interruptedly pinnate and lyrate." — Br. Fl. p. 118. E. B. 

 t. 1400. 



In woods, groves, thickets, on hedgebanks, and in damp shady places ; com- 

 mon. Fl. May — August. 2^. 



The Water Avens (G. rivale, L.), not hitherto found in the island, abounds in 

 wet meadows in various parts of the county. 



IV. PoTERiDM, Linn. Salad Burnet. 



" Flowers collected into a head, moncecious or polygamous ; 

 upper ones fertile. Calyx with 3 or 4 bracteas at the base. 

 Petals 0. Barren flowers : — Calyx of 4 deep segments. Stamens 

 30 — 40, with very long flaccid filaments. Fertile flowers : — Calyx 

 tubular, contracted at the mouth, with 4 deciduous teeth. Stig- 

 mas tufted. Achenes 1 — 2, invested with the hardened 4-angled 

 tube of the calyx." — Br. Fl. 



1. V. Sanguisorha,!^. Common Salad Burnet. Lesser Burnet. 

 " Calyx of fruit sessile glabrous unarmed reticulate -rugulose not 

 pitted, the angles margined, styles 2, stem somewhat angular." — 

 Br. Fl. p. 127. E. B. t. 860. 



On dry mostly calcareous pastures and hanks ; abundant on most of the high 

 chalk downs throughout the island. FL May — August. !(.. 



E. Med. — In old stone-pits and elesewhere at Binstead, but not common. In 

 profusion at Ventnor on the chalky slopes, and in most parts along the Under- 

 cliff. Sandown hay. 



W. Med. — Very abundant in the great plantation of fir, beech, &c., near West- 

 over. 



Hoot thick and creeping, with a brownish epidermis, fleshy and often of a blood- 

 red within, hard, tough and woody in the centre, very astringent. Stems erect, 

 about a foot high, wavy, solid, deeply furrowed and angular, bright purple and 

 glabrous above, green and downy with soft, spreading, simple hairs towards the 

 base, the branches few, distant and alternate, mostly simple and nearly leafless. 

 Leaves chiefly radical and near the bottom of the stem, erect or spreading, impari- 

 pinnate, of 6 — 9 pairs of roundish or ovate, very shortly stalked leaflets, of a gray- 

 ish green above, paler and more glaucous beneath, deeply and evenly inciso-ser- 

 rate, the terminal serratures much the smallest, the leaflets themselves diminishing 



