PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 21 
Procumhens, Pearlwort with procumbent branches. On 
walls, houfes, and fandy fields. An. June. 
EreBa, Phe leaft Stitchwort with an upright ftalk, and 
one or three flowers. An. April and May '. 
CLASS V. 
PENTANDRIA. 
The plants of this clafs have five fiamina and from one t9 
five pifiils ox more. 
MO N 0 G T N I A comprehends finch plants as have but 
one pijiil. 
MYOSOTIS. Mouse-ear’d Scorpion-grass, 
T he cup is femiquinquifid, oblong, ered, acute, an4 
remains till the fruit be ripe. The flower con- 
fills of one petal with a cyiindraceous, lliort tube. The 
limb is femiquinquifid and plain ; the'fegments are emar^ 
ginated and obtufe, The faux is Ihort*, the fquamulx 
are five in number, convex, prominent, and connivent. 
The five filaments, in the neck of the tube, are very 
fhort, with very fmall, covered antherse. The germina 
are four: The llyle is like thread, of the length of the 
tube of the corolla, with an obtufe lligma. The cup i$ 
large, eredl, and contains four oval, acuminated, fmooth 
feeds. 
Scorpioid^s. Moufie-eaPd Scorpion-grafis' naked feeds, 
and the apices of the leaves callous. All the reft found 
in England are only varieties and not diftindl fpecies. la 
dry meadows and in ditches. Per. April— Aug. 
LITHOSPERMUM, Gromwelu 
The cup is quinquepartite, oblong, ftraight, acute and 
endures till the fruit be ripe^ the fegments arc Tubulated, 
and 
