Menyanthes TRIFOLIATAc Buckbean. 



MENYANTHES Lin. Gen. PL Pentandria Monogynia. 



Corolla hirfuta. Stigma 2-fidum. 'Cap/, i-locularis. 



Rail Syn. Gen. 18. Herb;e fructu sicco singulari, flore monopetalo,, 



MENYANTHES trifoliata foliis ternatis. Lin. Syjl, Vegctab. p. 164. Sp. PL 208. FL Suec. n. 173. 

 PL Lappon. p. 50. 



MENYANTHES Foliis ternatis. Haller Hijl. b, 633. 



MENYANTHES trifoliata. Scopoli FL Cam. n. 2.12. 



TRIFOLIUM paluftre. Bauh. Pin. 327. 



TRlFOLltJM paludofum. Ger. emac. 1 194. Parkin/. 121 2» 



TRIFOLIUM fibrinum Tabem, et Germanorum. Rail Syn. p, 285. MaruVTrefoil, Buckbeans. 

 FLudfon FL Angl. ed. 2. p. 85. Ligbtfoot FL Scot* p. 137. Oeder FL Dan. 541. 



RADIX perennis, repens, longa, genrculata, fibrofa. t ROOT perennial, creeping, long, jointed and fibrous. 

 CAULIS procumbens, variae longitudinis pro ratione | STALK procumbent, various in its length, according 

 loci, vaginis teclus. | to its fituation, covered by the {heaths of the 



$ leaves. 



FOLIA petiolata, ternata, ovata, obtufa, utrinque gla- 1 LEAVES ftanding on foot-ftalks, growing three toge- 

 bra, venofa, margine repanda. t ther, ovate, obtufe, fmooth on both fides, 



I veiny, the edge waved or Terpentine. 



PETIOLI teretes, ftriati, bafi vaginati. f LEAF-STALKS round, ftriated, forming a fheath at 



I the bottom. 



SCAPUS fimplex, nudus, e vaginis foliorum natus, erec- | SCAPUS, or flowering ftem, fimple, naked, arifing from 

 tus, teres; glaber, foliis longior. the fheaths of the leaves, upright, round, 



I fmooth, longer than the leaves. 



THYRSUS terminalis, fubpyramidalis, nudus. t THYRSUS terminal, fomewhat pyramidal, naked. 



BRACTEiE ovatse, acutiuicuke, concavas. | FLORAL-LEAVES ovate, fomewhat pointed and hoi- 



's: low. 



Cx^LYX :• Perianthium monophyllum, quinque par- 1 CALYX : a Perianthium of one leaf, deeply divided 

 titum, bafi rugofum, laciniis ereclis, oblongis, | into five fegments, at bottom wrinkly, the 



obtufis, laevibus, margine coloratis. Jig. 1. % fegments upright, oblong, obtufe, fmooth, 



I and coloured on the edge. fig. 1. 



COROLLA monopetala, campanulato-infundibulifor- t COROLLA monopetalous, betwixt bell and funnel- 

 mis, cxtus rofea, intus alba ; 'Tubus crafTus, | fhaped, externally of a rofe colour, internally 

 calyce longior, quinque-fulcatus ; Limbus quin- % white ; Tube thick, longer than the calyx, 

 que-partitus, laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, acuti- | having five grooves; Limb divided into five 

 ufculis, reflexo-patentibus, intus barbatis, api- % fegments, which are narrow and pointed, 

 cibus nudis, barba longitudine calycis, fila- | fpreading and turned back, bearded on the in- 

 mentofa, alba. Jig. 2. y fide, the tips naked, beard the length of the 



i calyx, thready and white. Jig. 2. 



STAMINA: Filamenta quinque, fubulata, alba, co- | STAMINA: five Filaments, tapering, white, grow- 

 rollse tubo adnata; Anthers purpurafcentes, t ing to the tube of the corolla; Anthers 



fagittata?, apicibus incurvis ; Pollen flavum. I purplifh, arrow-fhaped, the tips bending in ; 



Jig. 3. % Pollen yellow. Jig. 3. 



PISTILLUM : Germen ovatum, viride, nitidum ; | PIST1LLUM : Germen ovate, green, mining ; Style 

 Stylus cylindricus, fuperne paululum in- •% cylindrical, above a little thickened, twice the 



craflatus, ftaminibus duplo longior; Stigma | length of the ftamina ; Stigma compofed of 



bilabiatum, flavum, villofum. jig. 4. y two lips, green and villous, jig. 4. 



Paekinson informs us, that in his time this plant was generally called by the name of Marjlo-trejoil, and fome- 

 times Marjh-claver ; it is now generally known by the name of Buckbean, whether this be a corruption of the 

 compound word Bog-bean, or of the low Dutch Boex boonen, hoc eft Phajeolum hircinum, or whether it be an ori- 

 ginal Englifh word we mall not prefume to determine, it being a point on which the learned themfelves are not 

 agreed ; but there is one point in which all who have feen the Buckbean in perfection will at once agree, viz. that 

 it is one of the moft beautiful plants this country can boaft, nor does it fuffer when compared with the Kalmias, 

 the Rhododendron 's, and the Erica's of foreign climes, which are purchaied at an extravagant price, and kept up 

 with much pains and expence, while this delicate native, which might be procured without any expence, and cul- 

 tivated without any trouble, blofioms unfeen, and wafles its beauty in the defart air. 



It grows abundantly in moft boggy meadows, it will alfo flourifh in ponds and lakes, and may be found in 

 Batterfea Meadows, particularly about a hundred yards diftant from the Red Houje towards Cheifea, alio plenti- 

 fully in the marfhes about-the ifland of St. Helena, near Rotherhithe, and no where in greater plenty than in the 

 marines about Staines, in many of which it is the principal plant. It flowers m May and June. 



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