A NAGALLIS ARVENSIS. Pi M P E R N E L. 
ANAGALLIS Linnai Gen. Plant. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Rail Gen. I 8. HERB® fructu sicco singulari, flore MONOPETAJ.O, 
ANAGALLIS foliis indivifis caule procumbente. Lin. Spec. Plant, an. 
ANAGALLIS phoeniceo flore. Bauhin . pin. 252. 
ANAGALLIS mas Fufchii 18. Gerard emac. 617. Parkinfon 558. Oeder. Flor. Ban. tab. 88. Raii Syn. 282. 
Hudfon. 72 - Haller, hijl. 621. 626. Scopoli. FI. Carniol. 139. 
RADIX fimplex, fibrofa, annua. 
ROOT flmple, fibrous, annual. 
CAULIS ramofus, proflratus, quadrangularis, Levis, 
fubtortuofus, Jig. 1. 
FOLIA oppofita, feffilia, cordata, glabra, fubtus punblis 
fufcis notata. 
STALK branched, procumbent, quadrangular, finooth, 
and a little twilled, fig. 1. 
LEAVES oppofite, feffile, heart-lhaped, 
underneath dotted with brown. 
finooth, 
PEDUNCULI oppofiti, foliis fere duplo longiores, 
inflexi. 
CALYX perfiftens, quinquepartitus, fegmentis trian- 
gularibus, alatis, membranaceis, fig. 2. 
COROLLA monopetala, quinquepartita, laciniis 
rotundis, coccineis, ad bafin purpureis, 
margine crenatis, fubpilofis, fg. 3. 4. 
STAMINA. Filamenta quinque, ereda, pilojijjima, 
(pili articulati'.) fuperne purpurea. Anther.® 
oblongae, biloculares, flavae, infidentes, fig. 
5 - 6 . ’ 
1 IoTILLUM. germen rotundum. Stylus filiformi:, : 
obliquus , longitudine filamentorum ; Stigma ■ 
fubrotundum, extra circulum Jlaminum locatum 
fg- 7- 
PEDUNCLES oppofite, nearly twice the length 
the leaves, bending downwards. 
of 
CALYX periling, divided into five Segments, the Seg- 
ments triangular and membranous at the 
edges, Jig. 2. 
loaner purplilh at bottom, t 
notched, and hairy, Jig. 3. 4. 
STAMINA, five Filaments upright and very hairy (the 
ham when magnified jomted!) at top purplilh : 
The An THEBAi oblong, bilocular, yellow, and 
fitting on the filaments, Jig. 3. 6. 
r lo i 1 LLUM. the GEME» round, the Style filiform 
the length ot the filaments, the Stigma roundilh 
placed without the circle of the Stamina, fig. j. ’ 
PERICARPIUM. Capsula rotunda, nitida, 
quenervia, filbdiaphana, circumfcifla 
fig. 8. 
SEMINA plurima, angulofa, fufca, fig. 
quin- I SEED-VESSELL. a Capsule, round, Ihining, brown 
fufca.| fl,ghtly tranfparent, having five nervef, dividing 
into two equal parts, Jig. 8. ® 
I SEEDS numerous, brown, and angular, fig. 9 . 
of e fuZT'tfnZi t'Tffi • of , thi t htt,e Phnt = 
common obferver, but when its minute parts come to be viewed by the f fufficrentl y obvious to every 
beauties altogether novel and unexpefted ; we then find that the edges WC ml charmed with 
eye appear a little uneven or hairy are furnilhed wirh . fi.Ju , 0 , flowers, which to the naked 
the hairs of the Filaments which partly tend to diftinguilh this°Genus g * ni ‘ YY ° n . footftalks > and that 
which generally arifes upright betwdxt the Stamina TTere MiSd \ : *0 PilHUum 
placed without the circle of the Stamina - The care which h , °™ flde ’ io that the Stigma is 
thefe delicate parts from the injury of the weather, ^ no^ leT mmYkabTe F “ *• of 
ther be fair and warm, the bloflbms fully expand, hut if rain falls or rl t E morning, if the wea- 
the flowers quickly clofe themfelves up to Lure the incSfed a’X tW , be “ UEh m0lflure in the air, 
fimflions deftroyed : from this property which it has in common wfth m Stl S™ a ! fr °m having their 
acquired the name of the Shepherd' s, or Poor Man’s matdZTa. fs-LyZJ °l X dafs - iC baa 
be open m a monimg it will prove a fine day, if flrnt, the LLrarv 7 1 remarked that if the flowers 
The fmall birds (Passeres Linnam) are fond of the feeds „ 7 ' this Pi 
penments made by forne of LlNNAms’s pupils, it appears th« kine and o-o t La - aCCOrdk g t0 «- 
It is very common m corn fields and gardens, flowering “Tl XX 8 fed 0n 
. A variety with four leaves at a joint fometimes occurs TLich A-m ■ 
is a mere variety, ,t fcarcely deferves a diffinfl figure. It is alfo found Sfh w differs in no other part, and 
flowers, but we have not obWdehher of thefe varLies near Won. “ d -with white 
