234 TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Sanguisorba. 
This plant varies very much both in the size and clefts of the leaves, in the 
height of the stalk, and the length of the spike; but the membrane ter¬ 
minating the anthers is constant. 
Star of the Earth. Buck’s-horn Plantain. (Welsh: Llyridd Corn 
y Carw ; Llys Efa. E.) Gravelly soil. Sea shore, frequent. 
A. June—Aug. 
Var. 2. Leaves more deeply divided, and more hirsute. Heads short, and 
lax. Blackst. p. 77. 
Between Dartford and Greenhithe. Near the Bristol Channel. Mr. Swayne. 
—Dawlish, Devonshire. 
Var. 3. Leaves strap-shaped, very entire, hairy. Spike roundish. Huds. 
Very much resembles Lob. Ic. 439. Ray; which is P. subulata. Linn. 
Dry meadows on the sea-coast. Hudson. Banks of the river near Yar¬ 
mouth ; and near Sheerness. Ray. 
Var. 4. Leaves between serrated and toothed. St. 
Pet. 4. !) — Pluk. 103. 5. 
Found on the north coast of Cornwall, by Mr. Watt. 
In its smaller state, and with spikes of flowers scarcely longer than broad 
(var. 1), it has been very generally supposed to be P. Lcejlingii, but that 
plant, according to Lcefling’s account, has smooth floral-leaves, whereas 
in ours they are always hairy, especially on the keel. The root-leaves, 
he says, are never wing-cleft, but in those of ours, whose spike most 
resembles the other, they are almost always so. 
CENTUN'CULUS. Cal. four-cleft: Bloss. four-cleft, tubular, 
expanding: Siam, short: Caps, one-celled, bursting all 
round. 
C. min'imus. 
Dicks. H. S. —(2?. Pot. 531. E.)— Curt. — PL Dan. 177 — Vaill. 4. 2— Mich. 
18. 2. 
Blossom minute, white (or reddish; solitary, sessile, axillary. E.) Con¬ 
tinuing and adhering like a veil to the point of the capsule, rarely ex¬ 
panding but when the sun shines strongly upon it. Plant very diminu¬ 
tive, often branched, dichotomous. Leaves sometimes opposite towards 
the bottom; otherwise alternate; egg-shaped, pointed, smooth, fleshy. 
Plant hardly an inch high. ( Seeds numerous. E.) 
Bastard Pimpernel. Small Chaff-weed. (Welsh: Bril-lys coraidd. 
E.) Moist sandy ground, and on commons. Salt-marshes and meadows 
near the sea side. Newton Cartmel, common. Mr. Hall. Gamlingay 
bogs. Rev. R. Relhan. (Blithfield, Staffordshire. Hon. Mr. Bagot,. 
Links of St. Andrew’s. Mr. Brown. On Hounslow Heath. Sir W. Wat¬ 
son. Ashford Common. Curtis. Iver Heath, in abundance. Rev. Dr. 
Goodenough. Side of Llyn Coron, and near Bangor Ferry. Welsh Bot. 
Marsh near Langside, and Kenmuir Bog, Scotland. Hooker. Rosses 
and Fanet, Donegal. E. Murphy, Esq. E.) A. June—July. 
SANGUISOK/BA.* Bloss. four-cleft: Germen betwixt the ca¬ 
lyx and the blossom : ( Stam. dilated upward. E.) 
* (The more usual etymology appears to be from sangzcis , blood, and sorbeo, to absorb ; 
the plant being supposed to stop hemorrhages ; but with at least as obvious reason from 
sanguis and or bis, referring to its globose head of purple flowers* £•) 
