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common in ditches and pools, where it may be readily 
distinguished by its floating leaves and elegant flower- 
spike . 
Pol. Persicaria , Spotted Persicaria •, flowers with six 
stamens, and ovate oblong spikes. Common in ditches 
and moist places. 
Pol. Bistorta, Great Bistort, or Snake- weed ; with a 
simple leafy stem, and ovate waved leaves. In meadows 
and pastures, and common in gardens. 
Pol. Aviculare, Knot-Grass ; with axillary flowers, 
elliptical lance-shaped leaves, rough on the margin, with 
herbaceous procumbent stem ; in waste places, and by 
way-sides, very common. The number of stamens, eight, 
and pistils, three, is complete in this species. 
Order IV. Tetragynia. 
Paris Quadrifolia , Herb Paris, or True Love. Cal. 
four-leaved, petals four, narrower; berry -superior, four- 
celled ; anthers attached to the middle of the filaments. 
Perennial ; flowers in May ; grows in shady woods, but 
is a very rare plant. No habitat is specified in the Flora 
Britannica. * I have met with it only in two places in 
Scotland, in the woods on the banks of the Cart, a little 
above Cathcart castle, near Glasgow, and in a shady 
wood on the banks of the same river, net far from the 
bridge on the road from Hawkhead, the seat of the Earl 
of Glasgow, to the old castle of Crookstone near Pais- 
ley. 
Adoxa Moschatellina , Tuberous Moschatel. Cal. 
two or three-cleft; cor. four or five-cleft, superior; caps, 
four or five-celled. A small perennial plant ; common 
m woods and shady hedges, and flowers early in spring. 
