TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
gcrmen. The exterior cup is fliorter, membranaceous, 
plicated, and endures till the fruit be ripe. The interi- 
or cup is quinquepartite, the fegments are fubulato-capil- 
laceoLis. The univerfal flower is equal-, the proper one 
is monopetalous, tubulofe, half cut Into four or five 
equal, and often unequal, fegments. 
There are four filaments that are fubulato-capillary 
and weak, with oblong incumbent antherie. The ger- 
men beneath the proper receptacle is involved in a flieath 
as it were in a iliiall cup or calyx. The ftyle is like 
thread of the length of the corolla. The fligma is ob- 
tufe and obliquely emarginated. There is no feed vef- 
fel, but the feeds are folitary, cvato-oblong, wrapped up 
and crowned v/ith their proper cups. The common re- 
ceptacle is convex. 
Siiccifa. Scabius or DeviPs Bit with quadrind, equal 
flowers. Ample (talk branches approximating, and leaves 
lanceolato-oval and entire. In meadows and paftures. On 
MrTowNLEy’s, of Leighton-liall^ meadows adjoining the- 
moffes. Per. July and Aug. 
Arvenfis. Cormnoyi Field Scabius with quadrifld flowers 
forming a ray, a hifpid flalk and pinnatifld leaves. Per. 
Aug. 
Columbaria. Fhe lejjer Field Scabius with quinquifid 
flowers forming a ray ; the radical leaves are oval and 
crenated, thofe on the flialk are pinnated and fetaceous. 
In mountainous paflures. On DuppeP s-Hill Croydon, 
Per. July. In feveral dry paflures about Tealandy Lan. 
A S P E R U L A. WooDROoF. 
The cup is fmall, quadridentated, and placed upon the 
germen. The flower is monopetalous and infundibu- 
liform-, the tube is cylindraceous and long^ the limb is 
quadripartite and the fegments are oblong, obtufe and 
reflex. The four filaments are placed on the fummit of 
the tube, with Ample antherse. The germen is didy- 
mous, roundifh, and beneath the receptacle-, the flyle is 
like thread and bifid, and the fligmata are headed. 
The 
