botanically arranged. 445 



FALSEVINE. The calix is a permanent perianthium of one 

 leaf; bell-shaped. Limb divided into ten small, unequal, erect 

 segments. Corolla five narrow, patent petals ; inserted into the 

 mouth of the cup. Stamina ten subulated filaments ; longer 

 than the corolla. Antherce oblong. Germen above ; globular. 

 Stile cylindrical ; shorter than the cup. Stigma capitate and 

 jagged. Capsule globular ; three cells ; three valves. Seeds 

 many ; small ; ovate. 



The stem is angular ; reclining. If the end touches the 

 ground it takes root. Leaves spear-shaped ; entire. Blossoms 

 on short flower-stalks rising from the axillcs of the leaves ; deep 

 purple. In wet meadows, and on the borders of ponds and 

 rivers. July. 



This plant, if it be eaten in large quantities, will occasion 

 abortion in all kinds of herbivorous animals. It is frequently 

 mowed with meadow-grass, and seems to be grateful food in 

 the winter to all sorts of cattle. But in some instance it has 

 deprived farmers of almost all the increase of their stock in the 

 spring. Those who are acquainted with its baneful effects, are 

 careful to separate it from their hay, when they rake it. 



DIGYNIA. 

 SAXIFRAGA. Linn. Gen. Plant. 494. 

 Saxifraga foliis lanceolatis denticulatis, caule nudo paniculato, 

 floribus subcapitatis. Syst. Nat. 



GOLDEN SAXIFRAGE. Blossoms redish. 



TRIGYNIA. 



CUCUBALUS. Linn. Gen. Plant. 502. 



Cucubalus calycibus subglobosis glabris reticulato-venosis, cap- 



sulis trilocularibus, corollis subnudis. Syst. Nat. 



CAMPION. 



