296 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Anagallis. 
ANAGAL/LIS.* Bloss. wheel-shaped : Caps, cut round; of one 
cell, and many seeds : ( Siam . hairy. E.) 
A. arven'sis. Leaves egg-spear-shaped: stem trailing: calyx seg- 
ments spear-shaped. 
(Stems branched, quadrangular, three to six inches long. Flowers on soli¬ 
tary, axillary, fruit-stalks. E.) Leaves dotted underneath, veined; 
mostly opposite, sometimes four together. Fruit-stalk not twice the 
length of the leaves. Filaments united at the base. Capsules marked 
with five lines, as if the seams of so many valves, but it always sepa¬ 
rates transversely into two parts. (The most accurate Botanists admit 
that the following varieties permanently differ only in the colour of their 
blossoms; as well, therefore, might the white-flowered be considered a 
species. E.) 
Var. 1. Blossoms scarlet. 
(J E. Bot. 529, but the blossom is incorrectly represented as fringed rather 
than crenate, as Smith has since remarked. E.)— Kniph. 6.— Curt. 1. 1— 
FI. Dan. 88— Trag. 388— Bladew. 43— Fuchs. 18— J. B. iii. 369. 2— 
Dod. 32. 1-— Lob. Ohs. 247. 2— Ger. Em. 617. 1— Park. 558. 1— Wale .— 
H. Ox. v. 26. row 2. 5—■ Matth. 621— Ger. 494. 1. 
Scarlet Pimpernel. (Irish: Ruinn Ruislu Welsh: Brathlys gwrryw ; 
Gwlydd Mair. E.) Corn-fields, gardens, and sandy places, not uncom¬ 
mon. 
Var. 2. Blossoms blue. 
Hook. FI. Lond. 169— E. Bot. 1823. E.)— Blackw. 274— Fuchs. 19— J. B. 
iii. 369. 1— Clus. ii. 183. 1— Dod. 32. 2— Lob. Obs. 248. 1 —Ger. Em. 617 
2— Matth. 622. 
Blue Pimpernel. A. ccendea. Schreb. Gmel. (Abbot. Sm. Hook. E.) 
Between Stockwell and Camberwell. Hudson. Bredon Hill, in a corn¬ 
field at the top of Overbury wood, Worcestershire. Nash. Dawlish, 
Devonshire, also between Bath and Bradford. Mr. Martyn. (Found 
among corn at Brington, Huntingdonshire, by Mr. Favell, and removed 
into his garden, where it remained unchanged several years. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. In fields at Great Saxham, Suffolk. Mr. Leathes, in E. Bot. In 
corn-fields near Lyminge and around Weston Hanger, Kent. Rev. R. 
Price, in Sm. Obs. Dunglass, on the Clyde. Mr. Stewart. Banks of the 
Tay, near Delvine. Mr. Murray, in Hook. Scot. E.) 
In Anglesey grows a var. with pale pink flowers. Rev. Hugh Davies. 
A. May—Aug.t 
Every part of the Pimpernel is singularly beautiful, and will amply repay 
a minute examination. 
* (A plant so called ebro rS dmycoysTu, from its reviving the spirits. Dioscor. Plin. E.) 
t Collected before the flowers expand, Pimpernel is useful infepilepsy and melancholia. 
Powder gr. xx. four times a day. Stoll. (It makes no unpleasant salad, and in some places 
Is used as a common pot-herb. Its medicinal virtues are doubted. Small birds are very fond 
of the seeds. It closes on the approach of rain, and from its susceptibility has been called 
the Shepherd's or Poor Man's Weather-glass: nor has this sensitive property escaped the 
observation of the Musa Rustics, : 
u Clos’d is the pink-eyed Pimpernel: 
’Twill surely rain. I see, with sorrow, 
Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow.” 
“ And Pimpernel , whose brilliant flovv’r 
Closes against the approaching show’r, 
Warning the swain to shelteringbow’r 
From humid air secure.” 
