A.NAGALLIS TENELLA. BogPimPERNEL. 
ANAGALLIS Un. Gm. Pl. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Cor. rotata. Caps, circumfcifla. 
Rmi Syn. Gen. ,8. Herb* eructu sicco siegulari flore mcnopetalo. 
ANAGALUS tendla foliis ovatis acutiufculis, caule repente. Un. Syft. Veptab. p. ,65. Sp. Pl. an. 
LYSIMACHIA teml/a. Hudfon. FI. Angi. ed. a. p. Sy. 
ANAGALLIS tenella Llghtfogt FI. Scot. p. 139. 
nummularia minor flore pnrpurafcente. BnuHn pin. 3:0. Gcr. mac. 630. Pari jjj. Rail. Syn. 
p. 283. Purple-flowefed Moneywort. 
RADIX perennis, fibrofa. 
CAULES plurimi, bipollicares aut palmares, teretes, 
glabri, repentes, ramofi, geniculis purpureis. 
FOLIA oppofita, parva, fubrotunda, integerrima, utrin- 
que glabra, petiolis breviflimis infidentia. 
PEDUNCULI axillares, bini, longi, etiam pollicares, 
eredi, demum incurvati, fimplices, uniflori. 
FLORES fubcampanulati, pro ratione plants majuf- 
culi, venis rubellis, faturatioribus picti, Jig, 
3 - 4 - 
CALYX: Perianthium quinquepartitum, laciniis 
lanceolatis, concavis, rubro pundatis, corolla 
brevioribus. jTg. i. 2. lo. 
COROLLA rotata, quinquepartita, laciniis ovatis, 
eredis, acutiufculis, carneis, venis faturatioribus 
driatis. Jrg. 3. 4. 
STAMINA : Filamenta quinque, alba, pilofiflima, 
pilis albis, fuberedis, articulatis : Anthera: 
ovatae, flavae, ^g. .5 6. 7. 8. 
PISTILLUM : Germen fubrotundum ; Stylus fubu- 
latus, antheris paulo longior. Stigma 
fimplex. ^g. 9. 
PERICARPIUM: Capsula circumfcifla, magnitudine 
feminis coriandri, rotunda, pallida, laevis. J?g. 
SMINA plurima, fubangulata, apice truncata, fg. 
13. 14. 
I ROOT perennial and fibrous. 
I STALKS numerous from two to four inches long, 
* round, fmoot-h, creeping, branched, the joints 
I purple. 
I LEAVES oppofite, fmall, nearly round, entire at the 
edge, fmooth on both lides, fitting on very 
j fhort foot-flalks. 
i FLOWER-STALKS growing in pairs from the alae 
j of the leaves, even an inch in length, upright, 
I but finally bent downward, Angle, and fup- 
I porting one flower on each. 
I FLOWERS fomewhat bell-fhaped, rather large for the 
I fize of the plant, of a reddifli colour, and 
^ painted with deeper colour’d veins. Jig. 3. 4. 
i CALYX; a Perianthium deeply divided into five 
I fegments, which are lanceolate, concave, 
t dotted with red, and fliorter than the corolla. 
I fg. I. 2. 10. 
I COROLLA wheel-lhaped, deeply divided into five 
t fegments, which are ovate, upright, a little 
I pointed, of pale red, flriped with veins of a 
j deeper colour, fg. 3. 4. 
I STAMINA : five Filaments, of a white colour and 
I very hairy, the hairs upright, white alfo and 
t jointed ; Anthera: ovate and of a yellow 
I colour. Fig. 5. 6. 7. 8. 
j PISTILLUM: Germen roundifli ; Style tapering, 
I a little longer than the Anthera; ; Stigma 
I Ample. Fig. 9, 
SEED VESSEL: a round Capsule, fmooth, of a 
I pale colour, about the fize of a Coriander 
j feed, fplitting horizontally in the middle. 
I Fig. II. 12. 
I SEEDS numerous, fomewhat angular and cut off at 
? top. Fig. 13. 14. 
IF the horizontal divifion of the capfule, joined to the hairinefs of the filaments, be the charailers which 
conflitute the Genus this plant is undoubtedly with much propriety referred to it by Linnaius, and 
removed from that of Lyfmachia with which it was before connefted ; for it not only has an evident Capfula 
circumfcijfa, but the hairs of the filaments are alfo jointed, in which they refemble thofe of the AnagallU arvenfs 
heretofore deferibed and figured in the beginning of this work — Producing ripe capfules but fparingly, and grow-, 
ing in fituations not always the eafieft of accefs, it is no wonder that thefe difeoveries fhould be of modern date. 
Mr. Hudson in the fecond edition of his Flora Anglica without afligning any reafons, chufes to continue it a 
L)fmacbia. 
It is a very common plant on Bogs, indeed there is fcarce a bog of any extent on which it Is not to be found, 
the boggy part of Shirley-Common affords it moft abundantly, it flowers in the months of June, July, and Au- 
guft, and towards the end of the latter ripens its capfules. 
