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P A' R I S * *. 
Linnean Class and Order. OcTA'NDRiAf, Monogy'nia. 
Natural Order. Smila'ceas. Dr. R. Brown . — Lindl. Syn. p. 
271; Introd. to Nat. Syst. p. 277. — Asparagi. Juss. Gen. Plant, 
p. 40. — Sm. Gr. Bot. p. 71. — Asparagi'neze, Tribe Pari'dete. — 
Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 402. 
Gen. Char. Calyx inferior, of 4 spear-shaped, pointed, spread- 
ing, permanent sepals ( leaves J, the length of the petals. Corolla 
of 4 awl-shaped, spreading, equal, permanent petals, which are 
similar to the sepals, but narrower and alternate with them. Fila- 
ments (fig. 1.) 8, awl-shaped, rather short below the anthers, which 
are long, strap-shaped, of 2 cells, united by their backs to the mid- 
dle part of the filaments, whose points rise above them. Germen 
superior, roundish, with 4 furrows. Styles 4, (fig. 2.), spreading, 
shorter than the stamens. Stigmas oblong, simple, downy on the 
upper side. Berry (fig. 2.) nearly globular, with 4 blunt angles, 
and 4 cells (fig. 3). Seeds several, globular, attached, in 2 rows, to 
a central receptacle ( placenta J. 
Distinguished from other genera of the same class and order by a 
calyx of 4 sepals, a corolla of 4 awl-shaped petals, and a berry of 4, 
many-seeded cells. 
One species British. 
PA'RIS QUADRIFO'LIA. Herb Paris. True-love. One- 
berry. 
Spec. Char. Leaves egg-shaped, generally 4 in a whorl, at the 
top of a simple stem. Flower solitary. 
Eng. Bot. t. 7. — Redout. Liliac. t.226. — Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.) p.172. — 
Sm. FI. Brit. v. i. p. 431. Engl. FI. v. ii. p. 241. — With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p. 
500. — Lind. Syn. p. 271. — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 184. — Gray’s Nat. Arr-. v. ii. 
p. 187. — Lightf. FI. Scot. v.i. p. 209. — Sibth. FI. Oxon. p. 131. — Abbot’s FI. 
Bedf. p.90. — Purt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 201. and v. iii. p. 356. — Relh. FI. Cant. 
(3rd ed.) p. 165. — Hook. FI. Scot p. 122. — Grev. FI. Edin. p. 91. — Walk. Fi. 
of Oxf. p. 116. — Rev. G. E. Smith’s Plants of South Kent, p. 24. — Mack. 
Catal. of PI. Ireland, p. 38. — Professor Henslow, in Loudon’s Magazine of 
Natural History for June, 1832, p. 429. — Herba Paris, Ray’s Syn. p.264. — 
Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 405. 
Localities. — In moist shady woods and thickets in many parts of England, 
and Scotland, but not common.— ENGLAND. Oxfordshire ; Headington- 
Wick Copse. In a wood in the parish of Mungewell : J. Oglander, Esq. 
Merton College, 1822. Plentiful in Pinsley Wood near Church Ilandborougn, 
1833. Wood near Upper Assington, July, 1833 : Mr. E. Jenner, Kensington 
Gardens, Brighton. — Berks ; Coppice below Greenham Chapel. Wytham 
Wood, near Oxford: W. B. — Bedfordsh. Woods at Hawnes, and Renhold ; 
and in Clapham Park Wood. — Bucks ; In a chalk-pit in a wood near Little 
Missenden Church. — Cambridgeshire ; Woods at Kingston, Eversden, and 
Wood Ditton. — Cheshire ; In a wood near the Bolling ; and not far from Seale 
Moor. Wood in Brinnington, near Stockport. In plantations near Bostock 
House. — Cumberland ; Bank Wood, Naworth Woods, and road-side between 
Hatton Moor and Penrith. IsellWood, near the river. — Derbyshire ; Pinxton ; 
Newton Wood. Love-lane near Derby. In Longford Long-lane, in a pit near 
Dalbury Lees. Rocks opposite Matlock Bath. — Dorsetsh. Wood atTurnworth, 
but sparingly ; Hanging Woods at Ashcomb ; Broadly and Morgan’s Wood, 
Fig. 1. Stamens. — Fig. 2. Germen and Styles. — Fig. 3. Section of Seed- 
vessel, showing the double row of seeds attached to the central receptacle. — 
Fig. 4. A Stamen magnified. 
* Named, it is said, from par, paris, equal, on account of the regularity of 
its leaves and flowers. Dr. Hooker, t See Adoxa Moschatetlina, p. 42. note. 
