146 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
long. Plant yellowish-green, somewhat shining, usually glabrous, 
but varying very much in this respect. 
Yellow Monkey -flower. 
German, Gauklerblume. 
Tribe VI.— SIBTHORPEiE. 
Corolla bell-shaped or sub-rotate ; under lip of the corolla 
covering the upper in bud. Stamens 4, rarely 5 to 8. Inflo- 
rescence axillary. Leaves alternate or all radical. 
GENUS FIT— LI MO SELLA. Linn. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla widely bell-shaped ; tube short ; 
limb 5-cleft, with the divisions flat and nearly equal. Stamens 4, 
nearly equal, sub-included ; anthers with the cells at length con- 
fluent. Stigma clavate. Capsule sub-globular, 1-celled above, 
2-celled at the base, 2-valved, opening loculicidally ; valves entire. 
Seeds very minute. 
Small annuals, growing in mud, with leaves in radical tufts or 
from the nodes of the stolon-like branches. Flowers very minute, 
on 1-flowered peduncles, from the centre of the tuft of leaves, white 
or purplish 
The name of this genus of plants is a diminutive of limus, mud, in which it delights 
to grow. 
SPECIES I— L I M O S E L L A AQUATICA. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCLXVIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXXII. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1285. 
Leaves on long stalks, elliptical, entire. Peduncles axillary, 
shorter than the petioles. Segments of the corolla oblong, obtuse, 
slightly exceeding the calyx. 
On the borders of ponds, and places where water has lain in 
winter. Hare ; but perhaps frequently overlooked on account of 
of its small size. Thinly spread over the English counties, but 
known to occur only in two Scotch localities, viz., a small pool at 
the south-east corner of Guillan Links, Haddington, and near 
St. Cyrus, Kincardineshire ; reported also from Eorfarshire. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
