STELLATE. 



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nous in some parts of south-eastern England, 

 our shrubberies. Fl. early summer. 



It is very common in 



V. LINNiEA. LINM]A. 



Calyx with a border of 5 teeth. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed, nar- 

 rowed at the base into a short tube. Stamens 4. 



A genus of a single species, dedicated to the great master of natural 

 science, with whom it was an especial favourite. 



1. Northern Linneea. Linnsea borealis, Gronov. (Fig. 462.) 

 (Eng. Eot. t 433.) 



A slender evergreen, creeping and 

 trailing along the ground to the length 

 of a foot or more. Leaves opposite, small, 

 broadly ovate or obovate, and slightly 

 toothed at the top. Flowering branches 

 short and erect, with 2 or very few pairs 

 of leaves, and terminated by a long 

 slender peduncle, branched near the top 

 into 2 pedicels, each bearing an elegant, 

 gracefully drooping and fragrant flower 

 of a pale pink or white colour, about 5 

 lines long. Ovary globular and very 

 hairy, the rest of the plant more or less 

 covered with a very minute glandular 

 down, or sometimes quite glabrous. 



In woods, or rarely in more open 

 rocky situations, in northern Europe and 

 Asia and some parts of North America, 



re-appearing in the mountain districts of central Europe even on the 

 southern side of the Alps. In Britain confined to the fir-woods of 

 some of the eastern counties in Scotland, and to a single locality in 

 Northumberland. FL summer. 



Fig. 462. 



XXXVII. THE STELLATE TRIBE. STELLATE. 



(A Tribe of the Madder family, or Rubiacece.) 



Herbs, with angular stems, and entire leaves in whorls of 4, 6, 

 or 8 (that is, apparently so, for two opposite ones only of each 



