POLYANDRIA. HEXAGYNIA. Stratiotes. 667 
3. 1— Fuchs. 10 2-~~Trag. 137— J.B. iii. 484. 1-— Park, 1367. 1— Matth, 
629 — Swert. ii. 8. 9— Lonic. i. 85. 1— Column. Phyt. 1— Ger. 935. 1. 
Stem upright, three feet high, branched, somewhat angular, (bearing several 
flowers. E.) Leaves, the lower on leaf-stalks, doubly threefold; leajits 
with three lobes, cut-scolloped; the uppermost leaves digitate, lobes 
oval, very entire. Leaf-stalks from the root very long. Blossoms blue, 
or purple. Seeds blacK. Flowers pendent. Lyons. Sometimes of a 
yellow green. 
(Var. FI. alb. Flowers white, just above the beach below Trefarthen, Angle¬ 
sey. Rev. Hugh Davies. E.) 
(Hudson’s A. alpina, said to grow in the mountainous woods of Westmore¬ 
land, is a lesser variety, with the nectary extended, and but little 
incurved ; and, according to Smith, wholly distinct from the A. alpina of 
Linnaeus, which has blossoms double the size. E.) 
Columbine. (Welsh: Madwysg cyffredin. E.) Woods and thickets. 
Upper part of Girling Trough, near Conniston; Kilnsay, Yorkshire. 
Curtis. Bedingham, Norfolk, with blossoms blue or white; near SwafF- 
ham, with blossoms the same, or pale red. Mr. Woodward. Near 
Goldsithney, Cornwall. Mr. Watt. Souston’s Roch, near Shelsey, 
Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard. About Falmouth. Side of a common 
near which Ligusticum Cornubiense grows, one mile and a half from 
Bodmin. St. Vincent’s Rocks, Bristol. (In woods above Stowting, 
Kent. Mr. W. Hutchinson. Little Baddow Common, Essex; Arnside, 
and Kendal Fell, Westmoreland. Mr. W. Christy. In the Dean below 
Dalton-le-Dale, Durham; near Middleton, and at Bavdales; on Ramps 
Holm, in Derwent-water, (so named from the quantity of Ramps, Allium 
ursinum growing on it,) and in woods at the head of that lake; also at the 
head of Wastwater. Truly a native of our woods, and the borders of 
the Cumberland lakes, remarks Mr. Winch. In Penmon deer-park, the 
old park near Beaumaris, &c. Welsh Bot. Corley Woods, Warwick¬ 
shire. Bree. Common in Monmouthshire. Purton. Mouth of the Fyars, 
Loch Ness. Dr. Bostock. Bradley Woods, and other spots near Newton, 
Devon. E.) P. June.* - 
HEXAGYNIA. 
STRATIO'TES.f Sheath two leaves : Calyx three-cleft, or of 
three leaves : Petals three: Berry six-celled, hexangular, 
beneath. 
* The beauty of its blossoms has long introduced the Columbine into our flower borders. 
Goats eat it. Sheep are not fond of it. Cows, horses, and swine refuse it. (Its medicinal 
qualities were once deemed considerable, but are not well defined, and in some instances it is 
said to have proved fatal to children. The elongated and incurved nectary of this flower seems 
to bid defiance to the entrance of the bee in search of the hidden treasure, but the admirable 
ingenuity of the sagacious insect is not to be thus defeated, for on ascertaining the impracti¬ 
cability of effecting his usual admission, with his proboscis, he actually penetrates both calyx 
and blossom near the depdt of honey, and thus extracts the latent sweets without further 
difficulty. Cultivation produces various colours; and Mr. Phillips observes in “ Flora His- 
torica,” the singular circumstance, that it has three distinct modes of doubling its flowers ; 
viz. by the multiplication of the petals, to the exclusion of the nectaries; by the increase of 
the nectaries, to the exclusion of the petals ; and frequently by the multiplication of the 
nectaries while the proper petals remain. E.) 
+ (From s-pocTiwTYig, a soldier ; or, perhaps, rpaTop, in reference to its crowded sword¬ 
like leaves. E.) 
