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wards from below the middle. A. N. H. viii.401.—Damp shady 
places. P. VII. 
** Style crect, leaves alternate the lower ones opposite, cal. 
with a short tube, fl. regular. 
+ Stem without elevated lines. 
2. E. hirsutum (L.); woolly, i. clasping slightly decurrent ob- 
long-lanceolatedenticulate serrate, stigmas4-cleft, budsmucronate, 
with scions.—E. B. 838.—St. 4—5 feet high, branched. L. most 
hairy upon the nerves. Fl. large.—Wet places by rivers and 
ditches. P. VII. VIII. Great Willow-herb. 
3. E. parviflorum (Schreb.); downy, 1. sessile lanceolate den- 
ticulate lower ones slightly stalked, stigmas 4-cleft, buds obtuse, 
root fibrous, no scions.—E. B.795.—St. 1—2 feet high, nearly 
simple. L. uniformly hairy. Fl. small. A dwarf woolly form 
with ovate obtuse leaves occurs in Jersey. —f. E. rivulare (Wahl.); 
subglabrous. AR. I. f.301.—In wet places. P. VII. VII. 
4. E. lanceolatum (Seb. and Mauri); i. stalked lanceolate 
toothed, st. obsoletely angular pubescent, stig. lobed, no scions. 
—E. B. S. 2935.—St. 1—2 ft. high, erect, with obscure raised 
lines from the edges of the 1. and a groove from the midrib espe- 
cially near the base. L. flaccid, mostly pendent.—Near Bristol 
and Tintern. Jersey. P. VIIT.—IX. E. 
5. E.montanum(L.); l.ovate-oblong rounded at the base toothed 
very shortly stalked, st. round pubescent, stigma 4-cleft, no scions. 
—E. B.1177. St.72.7.—Base of the st. decumbent and rooting 
but not creeping. Margins and veins of the leaves pubescent. 
St. 1—2 feet high, slightly branched; or, in 8. ramosissimum, 
6—18 in. high, greatly branched, leaves ovate; in y. humile, st. 
3—6 in. high decumbent below, |. small ovate; in 6. verticilla- 
ae 1. in threes.—In hilly places. y. on mountains. P. VI. 
VII. 
6. E. palustre (L.); 1. narrowly lanceolate with a wedgeshaped 
base entire or denticulate sessile, st. round, stigma undivided, 
seed obovate, testa prolonged into a point at the summit, buds 
nodding, scions filiform.—E. B. 346.?—L. usually quite entire, 
very narrow. St.6—18 in. high, pubescence often collected into 
2 decurrent lines but the stem itself is truly terete—In boggy 
places. P. VII. VIII. 
Tt Stem with elevated lines. 
7. E. virgatum (Fries) ; 1. lanceolate narrowing upwards sessile 
denticulate not decurrent, st. with 2 or 4 elevated lines, stigma 
undivided or slightly patent or 4-fid, seeds oblong-obovate not 
