Anagallis tenella. Bog Pimpernel. 



ANAGALLIS Lin. Gen. PL Pentandria Monogynia. 



Cor. rotata. Caps, circumfcifia. 

 Raii Syn. Gen. 18. Herb^ fructu sicco singulari flore monopetalo. 

 ANAGALLIS tenella foliis ovatis acutiufculis, caule repente. Lin. Syjt. Vegetab. p. 165. Sp. P/. 211. 

 LYSIMACHIA tenella. Hudfon. Fl. Angl. ed. 2. p. 87. 

 ANAGALLIS tenella Lightfoot FL Scot. p. 139. 



NUMMULARIA minor flore purpurafcente. Bauhin pin. 310. Ger. emac. 630. Park 5S5 . Rail Syn. 

 p. 283. Purple-flowered Moneywort. 



RADIX perennis, fibrofa. 



CAULES plurimi, bipollicares aut palmares, teretes, 

 glabri, repentes, ramofi, geniculis purpureis. 



FOLIA oppolita, parva, fubrotunda, integerrima, utrin- 

 que glabra, petiolis breviffimis infidentia. 



PEDUNCULI axillares, bini, longi, etiam pollicares, 

 erecti, demum incurvati, fimplices, uniflori. 



FLORES fubcampanulati, pro ratione plantse majuf- 

 culi, venis rubellis, faturatioribus picti, fg. 



3* 4- ' 



CALYX: Perianthium quinquepartitum, laciniis 

 lanceolatis, concavis, rubro punctatis, corolla 

 brevioribus. Jig. 1. 2. 10. 



COROLLA rotata, quinquepartita, laciniis ovatis, 

 erectis, acutiufculis, carneis, venis faturatioribus 

 ftriatis. fg. 3.. 4. 



STAMINA : Filamenta quinque, alba, pilofiflima, 

 pilis albis, fuberedis, articulatis : Anthers 

 ovatas, flavas. fg. .5 6. 7. 8. 



PI3TILLUM : Germen fubrotundum ; Stylus fubu- 

 latus, antheris paulo longior, Stigma 

 (implex, fg. 9. 



PERICARPIUM: Capsula circumfciffa, magnitudine 

 feminis coriandri, rotunda, pallida, laevis. fig. 

 11. 12. 



SMINA plurima, fubangulata, apice truncata. fig. 

 13. 14. 



ROOT perennial and fibrous. 



STALKS numerous from two to four inches long, 



round, fmooth, creeping, branched, the joints 



purple. 

 LEAVES oppofite, fmall, nearly round, entire at the 



edge, fmooth on both fides, fitting on very 



fhort foot-ftalks. 

 FLOWER-STALKS growing in pairs from the alas 



of the leaves, even an inch in length, upright, 



but finally bent downward, fingle, and fup- 



porting one flower on each. 

 FLOWERS fomewhat bell-fhaped, rather large for the 



fize of the plant, of a reddifh colour, and 



painted with deeper colour'd veii>s. fig. 3. 4. 

 CALYX: a Perianthium deeply divided into five 



fegments, which are lanceolate, concave, 



dotted with red, and fhorter than the corolla. 



fg, 1. 2. 10. 

 COROLLA wheel-fhaped, deeply divided into five 



fegments, which are ovate, upright, a little 



pointed, of pale red, ftriped with veins of a 



deeper colour, fg. 3. 4. 

 STAMINA : five Filaments, of a white colour and 



very hairy, the hairs upright, white alfo and 



jointed ; Anthers ovate and of a yellow 



colour. Fig. ^.6. y. 8. 

 PISTILLUM: Germen roundifh ; Style 



a little longer than the Antherae ; 



fimple. Fig. 9. 

 SEED VESSEL: a round Capsule, fmooth, of a 



pale colour, about the fize of a Coriander 



feed, fplitting horizontally in the middle. 



Fig. 11. 12. 



numerous, fomewhat angular and cut off at 



top. Fig. 13. 14. 



tapering, 

 Stigma 



I SEEDS 



JF the horizontal divifion of the capfule, joined to the hairinefs of the filaments, be the characters which 

 conititute the Genus Anagallis, this plant is undoubtedly with much propriety referred to it by Linnaeus, and 

 removed from that of Lyfimachia with which it was before connected ; for it not only has an evident Capfula 

 circumfciffa, but the hairs of the filaments are alfo jointed, in which they refemble thofe of the Anagallis arvenfis 

 heretofore defcribed and figured in the beginning of this work — Producing ripe capfules but fparingly, and grow- 

 ing in fituations not always the eafieft of accefs, it is no wonder that thefe difcoveries mould be of modern date. 



Mr. Hudson in the fecond edition of his Flora Anglica without affigning any reaibns, chufes to continue it a 

 Lyfnachia. 



It is a very common plant on Bogs, indeed there is fcarce a bog of any extent on which it is not to be found, 

 the boggy part of Shirley -Common affords it molt abundantly, it flowers in the months of June, July, and Au- 

 guft, and towards the end of the latter ripens its capfules. 



