244 TETRANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Buffonia. 
Leaves of a shining white underneath; divided into seven little leaves, and 
serrated only at the ends. Linn. Little leaves sometimes five, those of 
the stem leaves three. Woodw. Flowers greenish, (much resembling those 
of the preceding species ; but the smaller size and elegant silvery pubes¬ 
cence of this plant, with its digitate leaves, are strikingly different. E.) 
(Alpine Lady’s Mantle. E.) Cinquefoil Lady’s Mantle. (Irish: Kna 
Leana. E.) Mountains in the North (frequent, especially in micaceous 
soil. E.) Ullswater, near Penrith. Pay. Rocks in Borrowdale, near 
Keswick. Mr. Woodward. Near Buckbarrow Well, in Long-sleadale, 
Westmoreland. Mr. Jackson. (Glen Crow, Ben Lomond, BenLawers, 
and other highland situations. Mr. Winch. Near the source of the river 
Spey. Dr. Bostock. E.) 
(A. arven'sis. Leaves flat, three-lobed; lobes deeply cut. 
E. Bot. 1011. E.)— FI. Ban. 973—Col Ecphr . 146—Pc*. 9. 12— H. Ox. ii. 
20. row 3. 4— Lob. Adv . 324— Ger. Em. 1594 —J. B. iii. p. 2. 74. 3— 
Park. 449. 
{Calyx pitcher-shaped, angular. Seeds sometimes two. FI. Brit. Stems 
branched, trailing, leafy, four or five inches high. Leaves hairy, alter¬ 
nate, not plaited; stipulce large, deeply incised. Like A. vulgaris this 
species has occasionally two pistils. E.) Calyx eight-cleft; the alternate 
segments exceedingly small, but always present. Leers. Flowers axil¬ 
lary ; small, greenish white, hairy tufts. 
Field Lady’s Mantle. Parsley-piert. (Irish: Minan. Muire. 
A. arvensis. Sm. Hook. Grev. Aphanes arvensis With. Ed. 4. Hull. 
Linn. Relh. Percipier Anglorum. Ger. Em. Ray. E.) Corn-fields, and 
dry gravelly lands. A. May—Aug.* 
DIGYNIA. 
BUFFO'NIA.f Cal. four-leaved : Bloss. four petals : Caps, two- 
valved, two-seeded. 
B. tenuifo'lia. 
{E. Bot. 1313. E.) Magn. Hort. 15— Pluk. 75. 3. 
{Stem a span high, cylindrical, upright, jointed. Branches alternate. Leaves 
two at each joint of the stem, awl-shaped, three-ribbed. Flowers at the 
base of the leaves, white, small, solitary; on stalks rather rough. Calyx- 
leaves three-ribbed, with broad membranous margins. E.) 
Slender Buffonia. Hounslow Heath. Sea coast, near Boston, Lincoln¬ 
shire. A. May—June. 
(Sir J. Banks and Sir J. E. Smith doubt whether this plant be really indi¬ 
genous, the stations named having been unproductive for some time 
past. E.) 
* (It was formerly eaten raw or pickled; and thought serviceable in cases of gravel and 
stone. Camden, in his Britannia, supposing it a much rarer plant than it really is, either 
in England or other countries, describes it as “ Percepierp (q. d. break stone,) growing 
wild about Keynsham, in Somersetshire. “ The barbarous worde Parsley Piert,” we 
agree with Gerard, must have been “ given by some simple man, who had not well learned 
the true terme but, with all due deference we submit, that to adopt the worthy father’s 
suggestion, “ Petra Pungens,” would be little better than Romanizing the barbarism. E.) 
j* (After George le Clerc, a learned Frenchman, Compte de Buffon, born 1707, said 
to have spent fourteen hours every day in his study ; author of a celebrated Natural His¬ 
tory, died 1788. The specific name is understood to convey a satire on his slender preten¬ 
sions to Botanical distinction. E.) 
