VINCA MINOR. 
NAT. CLASS,— DICOTYLEDONES; ORDER,—APOCYNACEÆ. ART. CLASS,— 
PENTANDRIA ; ORDER,—MONOGYNIA. 
Root fibrous; stems at first erect, but becoming long? 
wiry, and, trailing on the ground, they take root towards 
tlie extremities, and thus propagate the plant in ail 
directions. The leaves are opposite, with short pétioles, 
evergreen, ovate. The flowers spring singly from the 
axils of the leaves, on long pedicels. The calyx is 
monosepalous, but divided into five deeply cleft narrow 
segments. The corolla is monopetalous, salver-shaped, 
with the tube widening above, and the limb in five 
oblique truncated segments, which in the bud state are 
spirally folded together. There are five stamens seated 
about the middle of the tube of the corolla, with the 
anthers curved, and opening along the edges for the 
