404 PENTANDRIA. TETRAGYNIA. Parnassia. 
som, but the segments towards the base are of a rich chesnut brown. 
The whole habit of the flowers, more particularly the seeds and the 
pistils, resemble Polygonum. In Portugal it is not limited to the sea¬ 
side, but grows in hedge banks and in ploughed fields at a distance from 
the sea. 
Sand Strapwort. Found by Hudson on Slapham Sands, beyond Dart¬ 
mouth, and near the Star Point. Mr. Martyn. (On the beach near the 
tin mine at Helston, Cornwall. F. Borone. On the shore of Loe Pool, 
near Helston, opposite Penrose, on each side of a low wall. Mr. E. Fors¬ 
ter, jun. in Bot. Guide. E.) A. June —Sept. 
TETRAGYNIA. . 
PARNAS'SIA.* (Nectaries five, fringed with bristles bear- 
ing globules : Caps, four-valved, one-celled. E.) 
P. palus'tris. (Leaves heart-shaped: nectary an obcordate scale, 
fringed with numerous filaments supporting pellucid globules. 
E.) 
Dicks. H. S. — (Hook. PL Lond. E.)— E. Bot. 82— Kniph. 7 — Ludw. 110— 
Mill. III. — FI. Dan. 584— Dod. 564. 3— Lob. Obs. 330. 1— Ger. Pm. 840. 
1— Park. 429. 2— H. Ox. xii. 10. 3— Ger. 691. 2— J. B. iii. 337. 2. 
Stem somewhat twisted. Whilst in flower, the germen having neither 
style nor summit, is, open at the top. The stamens apply their anthers 
alternately upon the orifice, and having discharged their pollen, recede 
to the petals. Linn. ( Stems undivided, with five acute angles, about 
nine inches high, single-flowered. E.) Petals a little scolloped at the 
edge, slightly notched at the end, white, with semi-transparent greyish 
veins. Nectaries (conspicuously beautiful. E.) green, the globules yel¬ 
low, from ten to fifteen, generally thirteen. Stamens only half as long 
as the petals, at first not longer than the germen, but each successively 
extends beyond the rest, as it sheds its pollen on the orifice of the germen, 
which closes as soon as all the anthers have completed that process. 
Root-leaves heart-shaped, on long leaf-stalks. Stem-leaves sessile. ( Seeds 
numerous, very small. Bloss. large. E.) 
Grass of Parnassus. (Most improperly termed a grass : and not clearly 
ascertained to be the plant originally so designated. E.) Marsh Par- 
nassta. (Welsh: Brial y gors. E.) Moist meadows in Wales and the 
northern counties. Common in every boggy meadow in Norfolk. Mr. 
Woodward. Abundant in a meadow called the Moor, at Blymhill. Rev. 
S. Dickenson. Coleshill Bog, and Knowle, Warwickshire. Purton. 
Bootle Marsh and Crosby Rabbit Warren, near Liverpool; Killicran- 
kie ; Loch Nakiel ; head of Loch Awe. Dr. Bostock. On the tops of the 
highlands about Buxton. Miss Sparrow, t In Purbeck; on Wareham 
* (Supposed to be the real aypwg-i; yj sv Uaapvaaaw, Grass of Parnassus, of Dioscorides. E). 
-J- (Another striking confirmation of the remark, that the §ame s ecies of plants may 
grow both on lofty elevations and in low marshes; because the clouds resting on the top« of 
mountains perpetuate moisture, as do fogs in meadows, and other lew situations. Dr. 
Hooker informs that this elegant plant, plunged into water in a garden pot, will continue 
to blossom many weeks: especially, we may add, if originally removed with a ball of its 
native earth. E.) 
