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SIBTHO'RPIA. 
Linnean Class and Order. Didyna'mta*, A.\giospe'rMIA+. 
Natural Order. Scrophulari'nea^J, Dr. R. Brown. — Liadl. 
Syn. p. 187.; Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Bot. p. 228. — Scropiiula'- 
riNjE, Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 434. — Sm. Eng. FI. v. iii. p. 115. — 
Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 528. — Scrophula'ri.e, Sm. Gram, of Bot. p. 
100. — Pediculares, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 99 — Syringales ; subord. 
Primulosav ; sect. Menthin,® ; type, Scrophui.aria'ce.e ; 
Burn. Outl. of Bot. pp. 900, 958, & 978. 
Gen. Char. Calyx (fig. 1.) inferior, of 1 sepal, turbinate (top- 
shaped), in 5 deep, egg-shaped, spreading, nearly equal segments, 
permanent. Corolla (figs. 2 & 3.) of i petal, irregularly wheel- 
shaped, equal to the calyx ; tube very short ; limb in 5, egg-shaped, 
rounded, spreading segments, alternate with those of the calyx, the 
two lowermost smallest. Filaments (see fig. 2.) 4, (didynamous,) 
from between the 4 superior segments of the corolla, shorter than 
the limb, almost equal, awl-shaped, spreading laterally, and con- 
verging in pairs. Anthers of 2 round lobes. Germen (fig. 4.) 
roundish, compressed. Style (see fig. 4.) cylindrical, as long as the 
filaments, but thicker. Stigma (see fig. 4.) blunt, peltate (target- 
shaped). Capsule (figs. 5 & 6.) inversely heart-shaped, compressed, 
of 2 cells and 2 valves, each with a narrow transverse partition. 
Seeds (figs. 10 & 11.) few, egg-shaped, attached to a globular cen- 
tral receptacle f placenta J , (see fig. 8). 
The 2-celled, 2-valved capsule , with transverse partitions ; the 
nearly wheel-shaped corolla ; and the stamens converging in pairs ; 
will distinguish this ftom other genera, with a 5-cleft calyx, in the 
same class and order. 
Only one species knowm. 
SIBTHO'RPIA EUROPiE'A. European Sibthorpia. Creeping 
Sibthorpia. Cornish Money-wort. Cornish Penny-wort. 
Spec. Char. 
Engl. Bot. t. 649. — Linn. Sp. PI. p. 880. — Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 276. — 
Sm. FI. Biit. v. ii. p. 667. Engl. I* 1. v. iii. p. 143. — With. (7t!i edit.) v. iii. p. 
742. — Gray’s Nat Arr. v. ii. p. 309. — Lindl. Syn. p. 192. — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 
290.— Prod. FI. Graerae, v. i.p. 439. — FI. Devon, pp. 106 & 148.— Mack. Catal. 
of PI. of Irel. p. 59. ; FI. Hibern, pt. i. p. 205.— Irish FI. p. 125 .—Sibthorpia 
prostrata, Salisbury’s leones Stirpium Rariorum, p. 11. t. 6. fide Kngl. FI. — 
Alsine spuria pusilla.foliis Saxifcagce aurea, Bay’s Syn. p. 352. — Blackst. 
Spec. Botan. p. 3. — Plukenet's Almagestum Bolanicum, p. 23; Phyiographia, 
t. 7. f. 6. — Cornwall Pennywort. Petiver’s Herbarii Britannici, t. 6. f. 11. 
Localities. — I n moist shady places, about springs and rivulets ; very rare. — 
Cornwall; Lostwithiel, Falmouth, Penzance, Camelford, &c. : Dawson 
Turner, Esq. Sides of the road about two miles from Fowey ; between Fowey 
and St. Austle ; near Ruan Lanyhorne ; and Bodmin : Rev. P. Jones, in Bot. 
Tour. Moist banks near Penzance, common; Gulval ; Maddern Well ; Tre- 
reife Road Avenue; Helston ; Scilly Islands : Rev. W. T. Bree, in Mag. Nat. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. — Figs. 2 & 3. Corolla. — Fig. 4. Germen, Style, and Stigma — 
Fig. 5, 6, & 7. Capsule.— Fig. 8. A vertical section of ditto.— Fig. 9. A trans- 
verse section of the same. — Figs. 10 & 11. Seeds.— Figs, from 5 to 11, from Gkrt- 
nf.r. — All, except fig. 5, more or less magnified. 
* See f. 31, n. f. 
t Sec f. 72, n. {. 
t See f 50, a. 
