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the leaf scarcely longer than 3 — 4 times its breadth, sometimes not 
twice longer, gradually tapering into the glabrous petiole. Stigmas bifid. 
3. D. A'nglica Iluds. ( great English S.) ; leaves radical 
linear-spathulate obtuse on long glabrous erect petioles, seeds 
with a loose chaffy coat. E. B. t. 869. 
Bogs in several parts of Scotland and Ireland. Near Warrington, 
Lancashire ; Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Hampshire, Devon, and probably 
in several other counties, If.. 7, 8. — This has much longer and 
narrower leaves than the last, and would better deserve the namfe of 
longifolia : the limb is at least 5 — 6 times and often 10 — 12 times 
longer than broad, and is so attenuated into the petiole that the com- 
mencement of the latter is chiefly distinguished by being glabrous. 
Scape much taller than the last. 
Sub-Ord. II. PARNASSIEfE. Stigmas 4, sessile, in a line 
with the placentas. Stamens 5, perigynous. Capsule 1-celled, 
A-valved. Seeds without albumen. Leaves glabrous - 1 
2. Parnassia Linn. Grass of Parnassus. 
Stamens with as many intermediate nectaries fringed with 
globular-headed filaments. — Named from Mount Par nassus, to 
which place, indeed, the plant is by no means peculiar; it is 
called by Dioscorides aypuiong tv tw llapvaaaip. 
1. T.palustrisJj. (common G.) ; bristles of the nectary 9 — 13 
leaves cordate cauline one amplexicaul. E. B. t. 82. 
Bogs and wet places; frequent in the North. If.. 8 — 10. — 
Leaves mostly radical, on long footstalks, cordate, entire, nerved ; 
one on the stem (a bractea ?) below the middle, sessile. Stem angu- 
lar, from 1 inch to usually 8 — 10 inches high. Flower solitary, 
terminal, large, yellowish-white, handsome. Petals broadly obovate. 
Nectaries, each an obcordate scale, opposite the petals, fringed along 
jthe margin with white hairs which are terminated by a yellow 
pellucid globular gland. 
Ord. XI. P0LYGALACE2E Juss. 
Sepals 5, the 2 inner generally large and petaloid. Petals 
3 — 5, more or less united with the filaments of the stamens, 
which form 2 parcels, each with 4 anthers, opening by pores at. 
the apex. Ovary 1 , usually 2-celled. Style and stigma 1 . 
Fruit a capsule, or drupaceous, 2- or 1-ceiled; dehiscence locu- 
licidal. Seeds solitary, pendulous, often with an arillodium at the 
1 This sub-order agrees in the perigynous stamens and general appearance with 
several species of Saxijraga, especially some from the mountains of East India ; 
9iit most botanists agree that it has a close affinity with the true Droseraceae. and 
kve are not prepared to place these also in Saxifragaceae. In the meantime we leave 
.hern together, as in former editions, among the Thalamidorae. 
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