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DIANDRIA. M0N0GYNIA. Ciewea. 
tune than the blossom, and not of the same colour. Linn. (Calyx, hairs 
hooked and tapering to a fine point. Grif. Root much creeping; diffi¬ 
cult to extirpate. FL Brit. Floaters small, numerous in each hunch. E.) 
Plant smooth, or woolley, or rough with hair, sometimes red.,at the joints. 
Leaves, upper short; lower on long leaf-stalks. Cup, leaves reflexed, 
egg-spear-shaped; coloured. Petals reddish white, alternating with the 
leaves of the cup. Filaments thickest towards the top ; white. Anthers 
white. Germen hairy, egg-shaped but compressed; placed under, and 
at a small distance from, the cup. Style thickest upwards, with a double 
green gland at its base. Summit a fine pink colour. Caps, set with 
white hairs, hooked at the end. Little fruit-stalks after flowering, point¬ 
ing downwards. 
Enchanter’s Nightshade. Common Enchanter’s-wort. (Irish: 
Fuinn Sheagh. Welsh: Swynyddlys, Llys Stephan cyffredin. C. racemosa, 
var. lutetiana. Hull. E.) Woods; moist hedge bottoms, in shady lanes, 
not uncommon. 
P. June—Aug. 
C. alpi'na. Stem prostrate, supporting a single bunch of flowers: 
leaves heart-shaped, pointed, (smooth, serrated; calyx membra¬ 
nous. E.) 
(E. Bot. 1057. E.)— H. Ox. v. 34. row 3. 1. 
(Only three inches high when wild. Calyx hairs granulated, and ending in 
a small globule. Grif. E.) The general opinion that this and the preced¬ 
ing are distinct species is confirmed by Haller, who asserts that C. alpina 
cultivated in a garden does not become C. lutetiana. But it is not an 
easy task to point out any certain and invariable differences. The calyx 
and the joints being coloured or mot; the leaves being hairy or smooth, 
opake or pellucid, toothed or tooth-serrated; the panicle being one or 
more than one; the plant being simple or branched, upright or depressed, 
are circumstances which exist more or less in different specimens of both. 
Scopoli has justly observed, that the figure of the leaves affords the only 
specific distinction. C. alpina is a paler, more delicate, and smaller 
plant, not more than from five to ten inches high; while the former, 
though sometimes nearly as small and as delicate, is generally half a yard 
high. (Notwithstanding the apparent conclusive authority of Haller, 
with whom Smith and Hooker coincide, we are bound to state that expe¬ 
riments made in the Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, and the observation 
of Mr. Robson, would induce a belief that the two species pass into each 
other. E.) 
Alpine Enchanter’s Nightshade. Mountain Enchanter’s-wort. 
(C. racemosa. var. alpini. Hull. E.) Rocky woods in Lancashire, West¬ 
moreland, and Cumberland. Mr. Woodward. At a small village called 
Storth, near Milnthorp, Westmoreland. Mr. Gough. West side of Bala 
Lake, half a mile S. of Llanycil. Mr. Griffith. About Dallam Tower, 
Westmoreland. Robson. Bank Wood, by Chapel Well, Cumberland. 
Hutchinson. Lorton, on the road between Keswick and Cockermouth. 
Rev. J. Harriman. Bot. Guide. Below Castlehead Wood, near Keswick; 
Ashness Gill and Lowdore, Cumberland. Mr. Winch. Balsal Temple; 
Springfield; Warwickshire. Rev. W. Bree. Purton. N. W. bank of 
Loch Ness, opposite to Fyars. Dr. Bostock. P. July—Aug. 
Var. 1. about the size of C. lutetiana: stem upright, with only one flower¬ 
ing head. FI. Brit. Leaves of a yellower green. Woodw. (Exactly 
intermediate between C. lutetiana and alpina, with delicate large leaves. 
Grev. E.) 
