SCROPIIULAEINE33. 



the minute flowers ; or occasionally a 

 few slender stems are developed among 

 the leaves, about an inch long, and bear- 

 ing at their summit a similar tuft of 

 leaves and flowers. Corolla of a pale 

 rose-colour, scarcely longer than the 

 calyx. 



In wet mud, or in places where water 

 has stood, throughout Europe and a 

 great part of Asia, Africa, and North 

 America. Thinly scattered in Britain, 

 and very local in Scotland, but from its 

 small size it may be frequently over- 

 looked. Fl. summer. 



VII. SIBTOORPIA. SIBTHORPIA. 



Slender, hairy, trailing herbs, with alternate leaves, and small, axil- 

 lary, yellow or pinkish flowers. Calyx of 4 or more divisions. Corolla 

 nearly rotate, with 5 lobes, or one more than the calyx. Stamen of the 

 same number as, or one less than, the lobes of the corolla. Anthers 

 2-celled. Capsule compressed, divided into 2 cells, and opening in the 

 middle of the cells in 2 valves. 



Besides the British species there is one from the Canary Islands, 

 with larger yellow flowers, often cultivated in our gardens under the 

 name of Disandra prostrata, and two from the Andes of South America. 



1. Common Sibthorpia. Sibthorpia europsea, 

 (Kg. 741.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 649.) 



A perennial, with a small stock, and 

 very slender creeping stems rooting at 

 the nodes. Leaves small, on slender 

 stalks, orbicular, deeply cordate at the 

 base, crenate, and hairy. Flowers very 

 minute, on short, axillary stalks. Calyx 

 with 4 narrow segments. Corolla scarce- 

 ly longer, the 2 upper lobes yellowish, 

 the 3 lower broader and pink. 



In moist, shady places, along the west- 

 ern coasts of Europe, penetrating east- 

 ward to a very few stations round the 

 Mediterranean, and extending north- Fig. 741. 



Linn. 



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