OCTANDRIA. TETRAGYNIA. Elatine. 501 
Herb Paris. One-berry. Four-leaved True-love. (Welsh: Cwlwm 
cariad. E.) Woods and shady places. Woods on the sides of Bredon 
Hill, Worcestershire. Nash. Ripton Wood, Huntingdonshire. In Nor¬ 
folk, rare. Mr. Woodward. Love Lane, near Derby. Mr. Whately. 
Wood of Methven; Perthshire. Mr. Millar. Near Gainford, and in Raby 
Park. Mr. Robson. (Near Ashby Lodge, on Lansdown. Rev. J. H. Elli- 
combe. In Stockwood, Keynsham; and in a small copse by the side 
of the Wells road eight miles from Bristol. Mr. Fred. Russell. In 
the Church-litten-coppice, Selborne. White’s Nat. Hist. Ken-wood, 
Hampstead, Middlesex. Mr. Hunter. About Frankley, Worcestershire. 
In plantations near Bostock House, Cheshire. Dr. Bostock. Woods at 
Hawnes; and Renhold; Clapham Park Wood; Bedfordshire. Abbot. 
Bank Wood; Naworth Woods; and road sides between Hutton Moor 
and Penrith. Hutchinson. Among the thickets on the north of Gar- 
regwen rocks, Denbighshire, and on the opposite side the rivulet. 
Mr. Griffith. There is reason to suppose it has been found in Anglesey, 
though not recently. Welsh Bot. Thickets near Oxton toll-bar; Pleasley 
Wood, nearBeauvale Abbey and Newton Wood, Notts. In the woods 
at Turnworth, Ashcomb, and near Blandford. Pulteney. Stream side 
in the lodge thicket, near Painswick. Mr. O. Roberts. In Castle Eden 
Dean, Durham. Winch. Guide. Wood about a mile south of Newbattle, 
near Dalkeith. Dr. Parsons. Grev. Edin. In thickets near Lyminge, 
Kent. Rev. Ralph Price, in Sm. Obs. E.) P. May—June.* * * § 
ADOX'A.f Cal. cloven, beneath : Bloss. four or five-cleft, su¬ 
perior : Berry four-celled, invested with the calyx : ( Seeds 
four, bordered. E.) 
A. moschatel'lina. 
Dicks. H. S .— (E. Bot. 453. E )— FI. Dan. 94— Curt. 137— Kniph. 8 ,—J. 
B. iii. 206— II. Ox. iv. 28. 14— Wale. — Ger. 933. 10— Park. 62. 1— Lob. 
Adv. 300. 1. and Ic. i. 674. 2 —Ger. 1091. 10— Park. 326. 6. 
Root-leaves triply three-fold ; leajits three-lobed. The calyx in the upper¬ 
most flower has only two lobes, the blossom four-cleft, the stamens eight, 
and the pistils four; but the lateral flowers have a three-cleft calyx, a 
five-cleft blossom, ten stamens, and five styles. Berry green, reddish 
when quite ripe. (Root scaly. Stem six inches high, weak, slender, 
four-square, simple. Flowers five, forming a compact, four-sided, pedun¬ 
culate head, one always terminal, green, small, emitting a musky odour 
when moist with dew. E.) 
Tuberous Moschatel. (Welsh: Anfri; Mwsglys. E.) Damp woods 
and shady places, not uncommon.£ P. April—May. 
ELAT'INE.^ Cal. four-leaved : Petals four: Caps, four- celled, 
four-valved, flatted : (partitions from the column : Seeds 
oblong. Sm. E.) 
* The leaves and berries are said to partake of the properties of opium. The juice of 
the berries has been used as an opthalmic. Linnaeus says that the roots will vomit as well 
as ipecacuanha, given in a double quantity. 
t (From a privative, and Soglory ; void of show ; unostentatious ; characteristic of 
its unobtrusive mien. E.) 
$ (“ Adoxa loves she greenwood shade ; 
There, waving through tha verdant glade, 
Her scented seeds she strews ”) 
§ (From sAativv], IXaVcw, the less; so called because it is the smaller species. Dioscor. E.) 
