Locai.itifs-. — In marshy or boggy ground, and wet meadows; rare. — Corn- 
wall ; In watery places between St. Columb and St. Michael; also about 
i’enzance ; and towards the Land’s End : Heath. On Talloe Water, Bradoc : 
Mr. E. Fohster, jun. Among the rocks at Castle Treryn: Borlace, B. G. 
Marsh between Penzance and Marazion ; and other wet places about the former: 
Mr. H. C. Watson, in N. B. G. Gear Stamps ; Gulval ; and Land’s End: 
Rev. W. T. Bree, in Mag. Nat. Hist. v. iv. p. 161. Base of a hill at the 
Race course, Truro : Rev. J. S. Tozer, in Hook. Brit. FI. Gorse Moor and 
Roche: Jones's Bot. Tour. p. 37. — Devonsh. East side of the Shute Hill, 
near Axminster: Rev. W. Auckland, in FI. Devon. Not uncommon in 
Devon : Dr. Withering. — Staffordsh. On the road-side betwixt Elnal and 
Ranton Abbey: Dr. Withering. — In the Island of Jersey: Mr. B. Saun- 
ders, in Bab. Prim. FI. Sam. 
Perennial- — Flowers in July. 
Root creeping. Stems trailing, thread-shaped, smooth, from 
2 to 6 inches long, often producing slender thread-shaped fibres 
from the same joints with the leaves and flowers. Leaves opposite, 
small, egg-shaped, or roundish, entire, rather fleshy, smooth, almost 
sessile, upper ones crowded. Stipulas (see fig. 5, a.) intra- 
foliaceous (placed above the leaf), small, white, scarious, jagged 
at the margin. Flowers (see fig. 5, b.) small, snow white, some- 
times reddish, crowded together in whorls in the axils of the leaves, 
and furnished with small white scarious bracteas at their base. 
Sepals (see fig. 1, a. and fig. 2.) cartilaginous, blunt, hooded, with 
long, twisted, terminal bristles or horn-like processes. Petals (see 
fig. 1,6.) f scales of Sm.^ awl-shaped, reddish, pointed, alternate 
with the sepals. Filaments very short. Stigma notched. Capsule 
of 5 distinct valves. 
A delicate and beautiful little plant, a native of Flanders, Ger- 
many, England, and many other parts of Europe ; but it has not 
been found either in Scotland or Ireland. 
God of the changeful year! — amidst the glow 
Of strength and beauty, and transceudant grace, 
Which, on the mountain heights, or deep below. 
In shelter’d vales, and each sequester’d place. 
Thy forms of vegetable life assume, 
— Whether Thy pines, with giant arms display’d. 
Brave the cold north, or wrapt in eastern gloom, 
Thy trackless forests sweep, a w'orld of shade; 
Or whether, scenting ocean’s heaving breast. 
Thy odoriferous isles innumerous rise ; 
Or, under various lighter forms impressed. 
Of fruits, and flowers, Thy works delight our eyes ; 
God of all life ! wliate’er those forms may be ; 
0 1 may they all unite in praising Thee !” 
W. Roscob. 
