742 DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. Limoseela. 
Emma Trevelyan, likewise in an old fir-plantation, at Catcherside in the 
parish of Hartburn, four miles west of Wallington, Northumberland. E.) 
P. June.* 
SIBTHORP'IA.f Cal. with five divisions: Bloss. wheel-shaped, 
with five divisions : Stamens converging in pairs : Capsule 
compressed, roundish, two-celled : partition transverse : 
Seeds few. 
S. europce/a. Leaves between kidney and target-shaped, scolloped. 
{E. Bot. 649. E.)— Pluk. 7. 6— Pet. 6. 11. 
Stems numerous, a foot long, thread-shaped, limber, not much branched, 
trailing, often radicating, near the leaf-stalks, hairy. Leaves (rather suc¬ 
culent, paler underneath, E.) alternate, remote, on leaf-stalks, heart- 
orbicular, one side opening near the centre, horizontal, with six or seven 
slight lobes, the lateral ones the smallest, blunt, about the breadth of a 
pea, sprinkled with small, simple, scattered, transparent bristles. Leaf¬ 
stalks short, ascending. Fruit-stalks thread-shaped, from the bosom of 
the leaves, upright, solitary, as long as the flower, often shorter than the 
leaf-stalks, pendulous after flowering. Floral-leaves awl-shaped, one to¬ 
wards the point of the fruit-stalks. Calyx hairy. Blossom minute, 
purplish at the base. Stamens (nearly, E.) equal. Linn. Herbage pale 
and delicate. Leaves half an inch over, with about five lobes. E.) 
Creeping Sibthorpia. Cornish Money-wort. Shady marshy places, 
springs and rivulets. Cornwall and Devon, frequent. Ray. (By Buck- 
barrow Well, in Longsleadale, Westmoreland. Mr. Robson. Meadows 
at Honington, Lincolnshire. Blackstone. Under a damp, shady wall, on 
the left, about two hundred yards before reaching Pont y Pridd, from 
Cardiff. Sir J. Cullum. Bot. Guide. Near the bottom of Conner hill, on 
the road from Tralee to Dingle, Ireland. Mr. J. T. Mackay. Eng. FI. E.) 
P. July—Sept. 
LIMOSEL'LA.J Cal. five-cleft : Bloss. five-cleft, bell-shaped, 
nearly equal: Stamens converging in pairs : Germen two- 
celled : Caps, often one-celled, two-valved, many-seeded. 
L. aquat'ica. Leaves spear-shaped, (somewhat spatulate ; foot-stalks 
twice as long as the flower-stalks. Sm. E.) 
{Hook. FI. Lond. 62— E. Bot. 357; E.)— FI. Dan. 69— Hall. Jen. 6. 3, at 
p. 295 — H. Ox. xv. 2. f 2—Pluk. 74. 4— Pet. 65. 12. 
(A minute creeping plant , throwing up clusters of narrow, spathulate, gla¬ 
brous leaves , one to two inches long. Flowers very small, axillary, pe- 
duncled, pale rose-colour. St am. nearly equal. Hook. E.) 
Mudwort. Muddy and gravelly places liable to be flooded, and where 
waters have stagnated during winter. A. July—Sept. 
* (The leaves infused in milk are serviceable in sciatica and other rheumatic pains. In 
Sweden, also the disease affecting the feet of sheep is cured by a fomentation prepared from 
this plant. FI. Suec. Dr. Swediaur’s experience confirms its efficacy in rheumatic gout. 
Its qualities appear to be astringent and diuretic, E.) 
f (So called by Linnaeus in honour of Dr. Humphry Sibthorp, Professor of Botany at 
Oxford. E.) 
$ (Diminutive of limits, mud } in which it delights to grow. E.) 
