308 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Lonicera. 
SAM'OLUS. # Bloss. salver-shaped : Stamens protected by the 
valves of the blossom : Caps . one-celled : opening with 
five valves at the top. 
(S. vaUseran'di. Leaves blunt: raceme of many flowers: (bracteas 
minute, solitary. E.) 
(Curt. A r . E. — E. Bot. 703. E .)—FI Dan. 198 —Kniph. Curt. 268— Lob. 
Obs . 249. 1— Ger. Em. 620. 3 —Park. 1237. 5—J. B. iii. 7?2. 1— H. Ox. 
iii. 24, 26, and 28. 
(Calyx bell-shaped. Seeds numerous, angular. FI. Brit. E.) Nearly a 
foot high. Leaves spear-egg-shaped, very entire (alternate, smooth, one 
to two inches long; uppermost nearly sessile. E.) Spike-like bunch of 
flowers two to four inches long. Blossom white, small, (with five seg¬ 
ments, and a small intervening scale between each. E.) 
Water Pimpernel. Common Brookweed. (Welsh: Claerlys ; Sammwl. 
E.) Marshes and moist meadows. In the large ditches leading from Poplar 
to the Isle of Dogs, opposite to Greenwich. Mr. Jones. Side of the brook 
running from the brine pit on DefFord Common, Worcestershire. Mr. Bal¬ 
lard. In Bowood Park, near Caine. Dr. Stokes. (In bogs at Willing- 
ton Quay, and Prestwick Carr, Northumberland: on the coast between 
Sunderand and Ryhope. Mr. Winch. Southport, near Liverpool ; and 
Wisbech. Mr. W. Christy. River Alne, above Oversley ; in boggy ground 
near Bidford Grange. Purton. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Links, near St. Ger¬ 
mains. Mr. D. Stewart, in Grev. Edin. Guillon Links, near Edinburgh. 
Maughan, in Hook. Scot. E.) Salt marshes about Lymington. 
P. June—July.t 
LONICE'RA.j; Bloss . one-petal, tubular, irregular: Berry be- 
beneath : one to three-celled : many-seeded. 
(L. caprifq'lium. Blossoms ringent, whorled, terminal: leaves deci¬ 
duous ; the upper ones united at the base, and perfoliate. 
Jacq. Austr. T. 357— E. Bot. 799 — Cam. Epit. 713— Ger. Em. 891. 
Stem woody, twining, and climbing, when supported, to a great height. 
Branches mostly opposite, cylindrical, smooth. Leaves almost all con¬ 
fluent at the base, egg-shaped, blunt, very entire, smooth, rather glau¬ 
cous on the under side; the upper ones perfoliate, roundish. Blossoms 
two inches long, yellowish, reddish at the base, sweet-scented. Berries 
orange-coloured, crowned with the calyx almost entire. FI. Brit. 
Pale Perfoliate LIoneysuckle. In a wood near Elsfield, Oxfordshire, 
plentifully. Rev. T. Butt. In Chalk-pit Close Hinton, Cambridgeshire, 
certainly wild ; also in another coppice in the same parish. Rev. R. Rel- 
han. (Colinton woods, and Corstorphine Hill. Maughan, in Grev. Edin. 
E.) S. May—June. E.) 
* (Diminutive of Samos, a Grecian island, in which it is said to abound. E.) 
*j* * Dr. Smith observes, with Linnreus, that the Water Pimpernel is found in almost 
every part of the globe, and under very different latitudes. We have had occasion to re¬ 
mark that this circumstance, however uncommon with plants, as well as animals, happens 
to several aquatics. E. Bot.) 
X (To commemorate Adam Lonicer, a physician of Frankfort, and author of a Histor y 
of Plants, who died 1588. E.) 
