342 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Herniaria. 
(E. Bot. 514. E.)— Curt. 222— Tourn. 45— Wale. — Clus. i. 121. 2 — Dod. 
406. 1 -Lob. Obs. 360. 2 —Ger. Em. 894. 2—Park. 381. 2— J. B. ii. 132 
— Garid. 81. 
(Larger than the last in all its parts. Leaves very glossy, evergreen. E.) 
Leaves minutely fringed with hairs at the edge. Calyx as long as the 
tube of the blossom. Bios, tube woolly within, just above the anthers. 
Leaf-stalks long. Blossom blue, sometimes with a blush of purple, twice 
as large as the preceding. E.) 
Greater Periwinkle. (Welsh: Llowrig; Perfagl fwyaf. Vinca per - 
vinca , herba semperviret. Plin. E.) Woods and hedges, but rare. A 
grove in Thorpe, by Norwich. Mr. Woodward. Isle of Wight, to the 
south of Yarmouth; plentiful along the Under-cliff. (In lanes about 
Charlton and Dover. Southrop, North-end, Northamptonshire, under a 
wall. Moreton. In a lane leading from Battersea Meadow to Wands¬ 
worth. Blackstone. Banks of the Wharfe, near Wetherby. Mr. Brenton, 
in Bot. Guide. Dundas Hill; Mr. Neill: Collington Woods. Grev. 
Edin. In a wood near Tyfry, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. About King’s 
Coughton, and Oversley, Warwickshire. Purton. E.) P. May.* 
DIGYNIA. 
HERNIA'RIA.f Cal. with five divisions : Bloss. none : St am. 
five perfect, and five imperfect; Caps, one seeded, (cor¬ 
ticated. E.) 
H. gla'bra. Plant smooth: (herbaceous. E.) 
FI. Dan. 529— E. Bot. 206— Trag. 527— Matth. 953— J. B. iii. 378. 3— 
Ger. 454— Dod. 114— Ger. Em. 569— Blachw. 320— Pet. 10. 9— Park. 
447. 9. 
Stem ligneous and knotted at the bottom. Flowers very numerous, apeta- 
lous. Floral-leaves triangular, fringed. This is undoubtedly a peren¬ 
nial, and its leaves are generally fringed at the edge, so that H. glabra 
and hirsuta may be the same plant. Stackh. ( Stems from four to eight 
inches long, trailing on the ground. Flowers yellowish, small, in clus¬ 
ters. Leaves egg-shaped, very entire, lower ones opposite, upper ones 
alternate. Cal. edged with white. E.) 
Smooth Rupture-Wort. Gravelly soil. Lizard Point, Cornwall; Hud¬ 
son : (on a low hedge under the Light-houses. Near Newmarket. Rev. 
Mr. Hemsted. Sandy shores, Portsmouth. Martyn. On a heath near 
Sleaford, on the road to Grantham. Rev. G. Crabbe, in Bot. Guide. On 
the coast at Weston-super-mare, Somerset. Sole. At Kedgworth, Corn¬ 
wall. Rev. J. Pike Jones. E.) P. July—Aug.J 
(Var. 2. Hirsuta. Plant rough with hair. 
(E. Bot. 1379. E.)— Sheldr. 110— Pet. 10. 10— J. B. iii. 379. 1— H. Ox. v. 
. 29. row 1, 2, 6. 
* (This beautiful plant may be readily trained to cover fences or low walls, and thus 
disposed proves exceedingly ornamental. E.) 
f (From its supposed efficacy in curing hernia. E.) 
j Rather saltish and and astringent. It increases the secretions by the kidneys. The 
juice removes specks in the eye. Cows, sheep, and horses eat it. Goats and swine refuse it. 
