Samolus Valerandi. Round-leaved Water- 

 pimpernel. 



SAMOLUS Lin, Gtn. PL Pentandria Monogynia. 



Cor. hypocrateriformis. Stamina irrunita fquamulis corollas. Cap/, tmi- 

 locularis. 



Rait Syn. Gen. 18. Herb^e fructu sicco singulari flore monopetalo. 



SAMOLtJS Valerandi, Lin, Syfi. Vegetal, p. 177. Sp. PL p. 243. FL Sttec. n. 192, 



SAMOLUS. Haller Hift. n. 707. 



ANAGALLIS aquatica, rotundo folio iron crenato. Bautim. Pin. 25 2 > 



SAMOLUS Valerandi. Bauh Hift. 3. p. 791. 



ALS1NE aquatica, foliis rotundis becabungae. Mori/. Hift. 2. p. 323, f. 3. t* 24. f. 2§. 



ANAGALLIS aquatica rotundifolia. Ger. emac. 620. 



ANAGALLIS aquatica tertia Lobelii folio fubrotundo non crenato. Parkins^ p. 1237. Rati Syth 28^ 

 Round-leaved Water- Pimpernel. Hud/on. FL AngL ed. 2, p. 94. Lightjoot FL Scot, 

 p. 142. Oeder FL Dan. icon. 198. 



RADIX perennis, fibrofa, alba. J ROOT perennial, fibrous, and white. 



CAULIo dodrantalis, aut pedalis, ere&us, rigidulus, teres, | STALK a fpan or a foot in height, upright, fomewhat 

 glaber, plerumque ramofus. ? rigid, round, fmooth, and generally branched* 



FOLIA aiterna, petiolata, ovata, obtufa, integerrima, | LEAVES alternate, ftanding on foot-ftalks, ovate, ob- 

 nitida, venis paucis, remotis, notata. $ tufe, perfectly entire, mining, marked with 



I few veins, and thofe diftant. 



PETIOLI breves, lati. | LEAF-STALKS fhort, and broad. 



FLORES parvi, albi, fpicati. J FLOWERS fmall, white, growing in fpikes. 



PEDUNCULl plurimi, fparfi, fubere&i, uniflori, teretes, | FLOWER-STALKS numerous, placed in no regular 

 bractasa lanceolata medio inftructi. t order, nearly upright, each fupporting one 



I flower, round, having a fmall pointed floral- 



% leaf growing from the middle of each. 



CALYX: Perianthium quinque-partitum, fuperum, | CALYX : a Perianthium deeply divided into five feg- 

 bafi obtufum, laciniis ereclis, perfiftentibus. %- ments, placed above the germen, blunt at the 



fig. 1 . i bafe, the fegments upright and permanent.^. 1 . 



COROLLA monopetala, hypocrateriformis. Tubus bre- 1 COROLLA monopetalous, falver-lhaped. Tube • very 

 viffimus, longitudine calycis, patulus. Limbus % fhort, the length of the calyx, open. Limb 



planus, quinque-partitus, obtufus. SquamuU* flat, deeply divided into five fegments, which 



quinque, breviffimae, ad bafin fmus limbi, ■% are obtufe ; five very fhort . Scales which clofe 



conniventes, jig* 2, 3. | inward, are fituated at the mouth 7 of this tube. 



t fig- 2 ' 3- 



STAMINA: Filamenta quinque, brevia, infra laci- 1 STAMINA : five fhort Filaments placed beneath each 

 niam corollas fingula. Anthers conniventes, | fegment of the corolla. Anthers clofing 



luteae, intra tubum corollas, jig. 4. % together, of a yellow colour, within the tube 



I of the corolla, fig. 4. 



PISTILLUM: Germen inferum. Stylus filiformis, % PISTILLUM : Germen beneath the calyx. Style 

 longitudine fere flaminum. Stigma capi-| thread-fhaped, nearly ^ the length of the fta- 



tatum. fig. S- 1 mina. Stigma forming a little head. jig. 5. 



PERICARP1UM: Caffula fubrotunda, calyce cincta, | SEED-VESSEL : a roundifh Capfule, covered by the 

 unilocularis, ore quinquedentato, dentibusj calyx, of one cavity, the mouth having five 



reflexis. fig. 6. f teeth, which turn back. fig. 6. 



SEMINA plurima, exigua, nigra. Receptaculum globo- 1 SEEDS numerous, fmalLand black. Receptacle round 

 fum, magnum, jig. 7, 8. % and large, fig. J, 8. 



Of this genus there is at prefent only one known fpecies, and that an inhabitant of every quarter of the globe % 

 neverthelefs, it is found but fparingly with us ; but may with certainty be met with on the edges of the wet 

 ditches about Woolwich, Charlton, and Greenwich, more particularly in the road leading from New-crofs Turnpike 

 to the Ijland oj St. Helena, Rotberhithe. 



It flowers in July. J 



No particular ufes are attributed to it, 



