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Sagittifolia: Arrow-head with acute leaves lhaped 
like an arrow. Per. June. 
POTERIUM. Burnet. 
The mafculine flowers are difpofed in a fpike. The 
cup confilts of three oval, coloured, caducous leaves. 
The flower is quadripartite and the petals are oval, 
concave, patent, united at the bafe, and permanent. 
The filaments are from thirty to fifty in number, flender, 
very long, and flaccid, having roundifli, didymous an- 
ther^e. The feminine cup is the fame as the mafculine. 
The flower is monopetalous and wheel-fliaped, the tube 
is Ihort, roundifli, and connivent at the brim. The 
limb is quadripartite, the fegments are oval, plain, re- 
flex, and permanent. There are two oval, oblong ger- 
mina within the tube of the corolla. There are two 
hairy, coloured, flaccid ftyles, the length of the corol- 
la; the ftigmata 'are coloured and pennicilliform, or in 
the form of a painter’s pencil. The berry is formed of 
the indurated, incraflated tube of the corroila, and con- 
tains tv/o feeds. 
Obf. Linn. Sanguiforha. The berry is angulated, 
with tetragonal feeds accuminated on both fides, the two 
piftils are weak and inferred into the mafculine flower. 
Sanguiforha. v/ith flalks fomewhat angular. In 
mo iff meadows and in chalky foil. Per. July. 
Wilson fays, It has a monopetalous flower, cut deep 
into four fegments, furniflied with a great many chives 
(which we call flamina) or a tufted pointal: The petals 
are very fmall, of an herbaceous colour. The emnale- 
ment turns, for the mofl: part, to a quadrangular fruit, 
piked at both ends, having fometimes one, and fome- 
times two cells: The feeds are generally oblong, the 
leaves pinnate, and the flowers are gathered into a head. 
Ray, Ger. and Wilson make two fpecics, a 
Major and a Minor. 
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