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2. Paknas'sia Linn. 
1. P. palm'tris (L.) ; filaments of the petal-like scales 9 — 13, 
pet. with a short claw, radical 1. cordate stalked, steni-l. am- 
plexicaid. — E. B. 82. — Pet. white, veined. Glands of the scales 
yellow. L. mostly radical. St. 8 — 10 in. high.— Wet and boggy 
places, paxticularly in the North. P. Vlll. — X. E. S. I. 
Order XI. POLYGALACE^. 
Sep. 5, imbricate, irregidar, 2 interior much larger petal-like. 
Pet. unequal, usually 3, 1 anterior and larger than the rest. 
Stam. monadelphous, separating above into 2 equal opposite 
bundles. Anth. l-celled, opening by a pore at their apex. Caps. 
1 — 2-celled, with placentas in the axis. Seeds pendulous, usu- 
ally with an aril at the base. 
1. Polygala. Sep. 5, persistent, 2 inner (wings) broader 
and often petal-like. Cor. irregidar. Pet. 3 — 5, connected 
together, the lower one keelshaped. Caps, compressed. 
Seeds solitary, with a 3-pointed basal aril. — Fl. crested. 
1. Polxg'ala Linn. Milkwort. 
1. P. vulgaris (L.) ; /. scattered, Imcer I. smaller oblong, upper 
1. linear-lanceolate, cal.-wings obovate mucronate their veim 
branched the lateral joining a branch of the central vein, caps, ob- 
cordate, lateral bracts shorter than the pedicels. — E. B. 76. — St. 
prostrate, ascending. L. scattered. Racemes terminal. Fl. 
blue, pink, or white. Central vein of wings nearly simple ending 
in a mucro ; lateral only branched externally ; branches joining 
in loops and also with the upper ones of the centi-al vein. Lobes 
of aril unequal, bhmt, lateral ones 5 as long as the seed which 
is a little stalked vsdthin the aril. P. oxyptera (R.) is a state 
with smaller fl., and h. broader than the wings. — ^. P. depressa 
(Wend.) ; lower 1. mostly opposite and crowded, st. long prostrate 
wiry, racemes id timately lateral. P. serpillacea Weihe. — A plant 
from Ben Bidben, Sligo, has large lanceolate upper 1., elliptic 
apiculate cal.-wings whose lateral veins rejoin the mostly simple 
central vein near its tip and have many netlike veins externally ; 
deep blue flowers. It is probably a fine state of this species and 
may be the var. grandinora (W. and G.). — ^Dry pastures and 
peaty fens. P. VI.— IX. ' E.S.I. 
2. P. calcdrea (F. Sch.) ; I. chiefly in an irregtdar terminal 
rosette large obovate bhmt those of fl.-st. short smaller lanceolate, 
cal.-wings oblong their veins branched the lateral looping with 
a branch from near the middle of the central vein, caps, oblong- 
obcordate, lateral bracts shorter than the pedicels. — P. amara 
