PENTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. 6i 
are capillary with roundilh antherge. The germen is 
fubovate having three thread-like ftyles and obtufe ftig- 
mata. The capfule is ovate, unilocular and covered, 
containing many roundifh feeds. 
Media. Common Chickweed with bipartite petals, and 
ovato-cordate leaves. An. A'pril — Sep, 
TET RAGTNIA comprehends fuchas have four pijlils^ 
PARNASSIA. Grass of Parnassus 
The cup is quinquepartite, the fegments are oblong, 
acute, patent, and remain till the fruit be ripe. There 
are five roundifh, emarginated, ftriated, concave, patent 
petals, each having a cordate, concave nedlarium, and 
the nedlaria have thirteen ftyles along the margin, gra- 
dually higher one than the other, on each of which there 
is a globe. There are five fubiilated filaments the length 
of the corolla, with depreffed, incumbent antherac. The 
germen is ovate and large, having a foramen in the 
place of a ftyle, and four obtufe ftlgmata that remain 
till the fruit be ripe. 1 he fruit is a tetragono-ovate, 
unilocular capfule with four valves. 1 he receptacle is 
quadruplex, adjoining to the valves, containing many 
oblong feeds. 
Palujlris, Grafs of Parnajfus of which we have but one 
fpecies in the known world. In feveral of the meadows 
belonging to G. Townley, Efq. of height on-Hall.^ Lan, 
Aug. 
P E N hAG T N I A comprehends fuch plants as have five 
piftils. 
S T A T I C E. Thrift or Sea-Pink. 
The common empalement is of a different ftruflure, 
in different plants. The proper cup is monophyllous 
and infundibuliform, the tube is narrow, the limb entire, 
plicated and of a fine thin appearance like filk*. The 
flovyer 
^ LiNNiEUs’ word is feriofa, the meaning of which I ^onfels | 
9m ignorant* 
