210 TRIANDRIA. ENNEAGYNIA. Empetrum. 
Umbelliferous Jagged Chickweed. Cerastium umheUatum. Huds. Dicks. 
Hook. H. umbdlatum. Linm Willd. Sm. E.) Old walls, banks, and 
sandy corn-fields about Norwich, where it was first discovered by Mr. J. 
Pitchford. Rose. On walls about Bury. Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart. E.) 
A. April—May. 
POLYCAR'PON. # Calyx five-leaved: Petals five, small, egg- 
shaped : Caps. three-valved, many-seeded. 
P. tetraphyl'lum. Stem much branched, trailing; leaves in fours, in¬ 
versely egg-shaped. 
(E. Bot. 1031. E.)— Matth. 734 —Barr. 534— J. B. iii. 366. 2 —Loh. Adv. 
196. 1. 
{Boot tapering. Stem spreading on the ground. Leaves rather succulent, 
dark green, smooth, on leaf-stalks, arranged in quaternate whorls. Pani¬ 
cles terminal, several times forked. E.) Sometimes without petals. 
Huds. It alters its habit so much by cultivation as hardly to be known 
at first sight. Woodw. ( Flowers numerous, small, greenish. Calyx 
edged with white. Valves of the capsules spear-shaped, turned in at the 
edges. FI. Brit. E.) 
Four-leaved All-seed. Dry sandy ground. Lymston, near Exeter. 
Mr. Newberry. (On the neck of the Isle of Portland, close to the shingly 
beach. Rev. Dr. Goodenough. E.) A. May—Aug. 
ENNEAGYNIA. 
EM'PETRUM.f B. and F. flowers on separate plants. Calyx 
with three divisions : B/oss. three petals. 
Barr. PL Slam, capillary. Pert. Pl. Berry with nine seeds. 
E. ni'grum. Stems trailing; (leaves linear-oblong. E.) 
Mill. III. — Dicks. H. S■ — E. Bot. 526. E.)—. FI. Dan. 9 75 — Tourn. 421. S 
— Matth. 154 —Clus. i. 45. 2—Ger. Em. 1383— Park. 1485. 2— Cam. 
Epit. 77— J. BA. a. 526. 
A small shrub. Bark , the outer scaling off, brown; the inner yellow. 
Branches rough from the remains of the leaf-stalks. Bud terminal, of five 
leaves; the leaves membranous, hairy at the edge, producing five little 
branches, four of which are in a whorl. Leaves in fours, with a white 
strap-shaped keel. Flowers from the bosom of the leaves, sessile, soli¬ 
tary, surrounded by a floral-leaf; B. and F. on distinct plants; sometimes 
on the same; or, rarely perfect, with flowers. Floral-leaf with three 
divisions, forming a kind of outer cup. Calyx whitish. Fertile plant simi¬ 
lar to the barren one. Stem redder. Leaves deep green, sometimes qui- 
nate. Pistil black. Berries brownish black. Linn. Leaves sessile, 
smooth above, glandular underneath, woolly at the edges, and rolled 
back so that the edges meet on the under side. Calyx segments concave. 
* (From Ti-oXuf many, and xapxos, fruit, or seed ; descriptive of its numerous seeds. E.) 
t (From tv, in, or upon, and rrirpo;, a rock ; such being its natural station. E.) 
