414 PENTANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Myosurus. 
Stamens varying from four to ten or twenty. Lyons. Gmel. Leaves some¬ 
times hairy. Huds. From two or four inches high. Stalk simple, single- 
flowered. Leaves radical, narrow, strap-shaped. Flowers yellowish 
green, terminal. Receptacle of the seeds very long, nearly cylindrical. 
The whole plant is acrid. 
Little Mouse-tail. Corn-fields, meadows, and pastures, in gravelly 
soil. At Lakenham. Mr. Crowe. Near Derby. Mr. Whately. Malvern 
Chase, Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard. (Earsham, Norfolk. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. In Langton fields, near Blandford. Pulteney. Alne Hills: at 
Studley, in a field by the church. Purton. In a field near the cross, 
between Norton Lindsey and Warwick. Perry. Not unfrequent in 
Scotland. Hooker. E.) A. May—June.* 
* (The peculiarly elongated receptacle, beset with some hundreds of capsules or ger- 
mens, and extending above the other parts of the plant, best accords with its ancient de¬ 
signation, Cauda muris , when the seeds are ripe. E.) 
