Adoxa moschatellina. 
Tuberous Moschatel. 
ADOXA Litirni Gen. PI. Octandria Teyragynia. 
Cal. 2-fidus, inferus. Cor. 4 -f. j-fida, fupera. Baeca 4 -f. 5-Ioculans, ca- 
lyce coalita. 
RaiiSyn.Gen. 16. Herb® Baccifer®. 
ADOXA Mofchatelllna. Lima! Syjl. Fegetab. p. y 5. Sf. PI. 527. FI. Suecic. p. 132. 
MOSCHATELLINA Bailer hi/l. 429. 
MOSCHATELLA Adoxa. Scopoli. II. Carniol. f. 281. 
MOSCHATELLINA foliis fumaria: bulbofe. I. B. in. 206. 
RANUNCULUS nemorofus Mofchatella diftus. Parhnfon 226. 
RANUNCULUS nemorum Mofchateliina diaus. Baubm. Pm. 178. 
RADIX CAVA minima viridi flore. Gerard emac. 1091. Ball Syn. p. 268, Tuberous Mofchatel. 
Hudfon FI. Angl ed. 2. p. 172. 
Lightfoot FI Scot. p. 209. 
Oeder FI Van. ic. 139. 
RADIX perennis, repens, dentata, alba. 
FOLIA radicalia tria aut quatuor, tri-ternata, xncifa, 
glabra, lobis ovatis, mucronatis, caulina duo 
brevius petiolata. oppofita. 
ROOT perennial, creeping, toothed, and of a white 
colour. 
LEAVES: radical leaves commonly _ three or four, 
triply ternate, deeply cut in, fmooth, and 
Shining ; the fegments or lobes oval, with a 
fhort point : thofe of the ftalk two in number, 
Handing on Ihorter foot-ftalks, and oppofite. 
CAULIS folia fuperans, fimplex, fubtetragonus. 
PEDUNCULUS quadrangularis, nudus, terminalis. 
CAPITULUM tetragonum, ex cpiatuor floribus verti- 
cillatis, quinto terminali. 
CALYX: Per ianthium inferum, faepius triangulare, 
planum, perfiftens, fig. 1 • 
STALK fomewhat taller than the leaves, Ample, and 
nearly fquare. 
FLOWER-STALK fquare, naked, and terminating 
the ftalk. 
HEAD fquare, from the union of four of the flowers, 
and terminated by the fifth. 
CALYX : a Perianthium placed beneath the ger- 
men, moft commonly triangular, flat, and 
permanent, jig. 1 . 
COROLLA monopetala, rotata, plana, 
aut quinquefida, laciniis ovatis, 
ce longioribus, fig. 2, 3, 4* 
quadrifida, 
acutis, caly- 
COROLLA monopetalous, wheel-fhaped, flat, divi- 
ded into four or five fegments, which are 
oval, pointed, and longer than the calyx, 
fig • 2 > 3» 4- 
STAMINA: Filamenta otto aut decern, fubulata, 
longitudine calycis: Antheras flava:, piante, 
orbiculata, jig. 5 • 
PISTILLUM : Germen fubrotundum, calyce cinttum: 
Styli plerumque quatuor, fimphees, eretti, 
longitudine ftaminum, perfiftentes : Stigma- 
ta fimplicia, fig. 6. 
PERICARPIUM: Bacca globofa, viridis, quadrilo- 
cularis, cum calyce coalita, fig. 7. 
SEMINA folitaria, ovata, compreffa, fig. 
: STAMINA: eight or ten Filaments, tapering, the 
length of the calyx : Anther.® yellow, flat, 
and round, fig. 5. 
; PISTILLUM : Germen roundifh, furrounded by the 
calyx : Styles generally four, Ample, up- 
right, the length of the ftamina, permanent : 
Stigmata fimple, jig. 6. 
; ! SEED-VESSEL ; a round Berry of a green colour, 
having four cavities, and united to the calyx, 
fig • 7- 
1 SEEDS fingle, oval, and flattened, fig. 8. 
It is one of the bacciferous plants of Ray, but its berries are rarely produced, and not to be drfeovered 
without a nice examination. 
It varies much in the divifrons of its CalyK, and Corolla, as well as in the number of its Stamina, even 
in the terminal flower. 
In Charlton Wood we find it abundantly, flowering in April and May. 
