340 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Thesium. 
Leaves oval, keeled, fleshy, smooth, scarcely stalked. Upper whorls 
crowded together, by no means so far asunder as represented in FI. Dan. 
Woodw. Plant about three inches high. Floivers reddish or nearly 
white, (numerous, crowded together. Calyx awned, permanent. E.) 
W horled Knot Grass. Marshes and wet pastures. (On the turf be¬ 
tween Mean and the Land’s End. Dr. Forbes. E.) In Cornwall and 
Devon, not uncommon. (On the road side betwixt Elnal and Ranton 
Abbey, Staffordshire. E.) P. July—Sept. 
GLAU'X.* Cal. one leaf, coloured : Bloss. none: Caps, one- 
celled, five-valved, five-seeded. 
G. MARITIMA. 
{Hoole. FI. Lond. 188. E.)— E. Bot. 13— Lob. Ohs. 227. 2— Ger. Em. 562 
— Park. 1283. 2— Fl. Dan. 548— Ger. 448. 
{Root of thick, flexuose fibres. Stem, three or four inches high, often trail¬ 
ing, and reddish, little branched, cylindrical, thickly set with leaves. 
Leaves opposite, oblong, very entire, smooth, pale underneath, of a saline 
taste. Flowers at the base of the leaves, solitary, nearly sessile, flesh- 
coloured. 
Sea Milkwort. Black Saltwort. (Welsh : Hel-las. E.) Frequent on 
the sea shores; salt marshes, not uncommon. Salt marsh at Ingestre, Staf¬ 
fordshire. Mr. Bagot. Norfolk coast. Mr. Woodward. Cornish coast. 
Mr. Watt. (North Shore, and Knott’s Hole, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. 
Sea coast, Abbey Holm, Cumberland. Hutchinson. Fairlie, on the coast 
of Ayrshire. Graves, in Curt. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Shores of the Frith: 
about Burnt-island, &c. Greville. Side of the river near Teignmouth. 
Mr. Fred. Russell. E.) Below King’s Weston, near Bristol. In Port¬ 
land Island. P. June—July.f 
THE'SIUM. Cal. coriaceous, of one leaf, on which the sta¬ 
mens grow : Seed one, beneath. 
T. linophyi/lum. Spike branched: floral-leaves ternate: leaves 
strap-spear-shaped: calyx tube very short. 
Dicks. H. S. — E. Bot. 247— Ger. Prov. 17. 1— Relh. at. p. 99— H. Ox. xv. 
I. 3— Kniph. 9—Clus. i. 324. 1— Park. 459. 6—Ger. 442. 7—Pet. 9. 5— 
J. B. iii. 461. 3. 
Floral-leaves cloven into three, the middle segment long and pointing down¬ 
ward. Woodw. Stems ascending, mostly branched, from three to five 
inches high, angular, leafy. Root yellowish. Flowers mostly in bunches. 
intelligent with hints concerning what sort of trees should be planted round small ponds 
wished to be perennial. Deciduous trees entwined with much Ivy, seem to distil the 
greatest quantity.” Irish Ivy, a variety with larger leaves, and generally of more luxu¬ 
riant growth, is a valuable acquisition for ornamental purposes, and said to have been first 
introduced into England by Earl Camden. It may be well to remind those who are desirous 
of rapid growth in Ivy, that the application of manure to the roots proves a very successful 
stimulant. According to Warner, some portions of the Ivy of which the venerable 
ruins of Glaston Abbey were so injudiciously dismantled by sacrilegious hands, in 1807, 
measured two feet in diameter. E.) 
* (From glaiictis , a sea-green colour. E.) 
f Cows eat it. Mr. Atkinson states that it is much used as a pickle. 
