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ADO'XA* *. 
Linnean Class and Order. Octa'ndria f, Tetragy'nia. 
Natural Order. Saxifra'gEjE, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 308. — Sm. 
Gr. of Bot. p. 163. — Lindl. Syn. p. 66 ; Introduct. to Nat. Syst. p. 
49. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 511. — Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 517. — 
Succulents, Linn. — Rosases ; sect. Aralins ; type, Ara- 
lia'ces. Burn. Outl. of Bot. pp. 614, 765, & 767. 
Gen. Char. Calyx (fig. 3.) half inferior, 2- or 3-cleft, seg- 
ments permanent, flat and spreading. Corolla (figs. 1 & 2.) of one 
petal, wheel-shaped, in 4 or 5 deep, egg-shaped, pointed, spreading 
segments, which are longer than the calyx. Filaments 8 or 10, 
awl-shaped, as long as the calyx. Anthers (fig. 4.) terminal, 
1-celled, roundish. Germen half superior. Styles 4 or 5, simple, 
short, upright, a little spreading, united at their base, which is per- 
manent (see f.5). Stigmas simple. Berry (fig. 6.) globose, 1-celled, 
half invested with the permanent calyx, whose segments surround 
the middle part of it. Seeds 4, compressed, each surrounded with 
a vertical, membranous border. 
The terminal flower only is 4-cleft, with 8 stamens, and 4 pistils ; 
the lateral ones are 5-cleft, with 10 stamens, and 5 pistils : hence, 
according to a rule assumed by Linnaeus, this genus is placed in 
Octandria Tetragy'nia . — Distinguished from other British genera 
of the same class and order, by the half inferior calyx, and mono- 
petalous corolla. 
Only one species known. 
ADO'XA MOSCHATE'LLINA. Tuberous Moschatell. 
Eng. Bot. t. 453.— Curt. FI. Lond. t. 137.— Linn. Sp. PI. p. 527.— Huds. FI. 
Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 172. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. i. p. 432. Engl. FI. v. ii. p. 242. — 
With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p. 501 . — Lind. Syn. p. 67.— Hook. Brit. FI. p. 184. — Light. 
FI. Scot. v. i. p. 209.— Sibth. FI. Oxon. p. 131.— Abb. FI. Bedf. p. 91.— Purt. 
Midi. FI. v. i. p. 202. — Relh. FI. Cant. (3rd ed.) p. 165. — Hook. FI. Scot. p. 
123. — Grev. FI. Edin. p. 91. — FI. Devon, pp. 71 & 168. — Walk. FI. Oxf. p. 1 16. 
— Perry’s PI. Varvic. Select*, p. 37. — Bab. FI. Bath p. 19. — Adoxa tuberosa, 
Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 493. — Moschatellina foliis Fumaria bullosa, Ray’s 
Syn. p. 267. — Radix cava minima viridi flore, Johnson’s Gerarde, 1091. 
Localities. — Moist woods, groves, thickets, and shady hedges. Not uucom- 
mon. — Oxfordsh. Shotover Plantations ; Southleigh ; and woods near Ashford 
Mills : Dr. Sibthoup. South side of Shotover Hill : 1813; Mr. James Hinton. 
Hedge-banks between Shotover Hill and the Plantations ; and in the Plantation, 
in great abundance, in flower April 16, 1831. On a Heath between Barton 
and Stanton St. John, a little beyond Bayswater ; in a lane near Stow Wood ; 
and in Headingtou-Wick Copse, in fruit June 4, 1831: W.B. — Berks; In a 
Fig. 1. A terminal Corolla, with 8 Stamens. — Fig. 2. A lateral Corolla, with 
10 Stamens. — Fig. 3. Calyx and Pistils. — Fig. 4. A Segment of the Corolla, 
showing the insertion of the Stamens. — Fig. 5. Calyx and Pistils, magnified. — 
Fig. 6. A Berry, surrounded by the remains of the Calyx. 
* From a Gr. privative, without; and doxa, Gr. glory ; void of show ; from 
the humble and insignificant aspect of this little flower. 
f The 8th class in the Artificial System of Linn.eus, comprising those plants 
which have perfect flowers with 8 distinct stamens in each. — When the number 
of stamens and pistils differ in different flowers on the same plant, as is the 
case with Adoxa, it was a rule laid down by Linn,eus, that the class and order 
should then be determined by the number of those organs in the terminating 
flower, in which they are found to be constant. 
