562 DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Lychnis. 
transparent seed-coat, which, being pressed, opens with a jerk, and 
throws out the seed to some distance. Hollef.; (as in the former spe¬ 
cies. E.) Capsules long and pointed. Blossoms yellow, (small. Leafits 
inversely-heart-shaped, downy, acid. The specific name describes the 
form of the capsule. E.) 
Yellow Wood-sorrel. O. pusilla. Salisb. Linn. Tr. ii. 243. First ob¬ 
served in Britain by Mr. J. Turner, in several places in the neighbourhood 
of Exeter. Berkenhout. In a waste rubbishy spot at Dawlish, Devon¬ 
shire, Sept. 1781, and since in several other places in the same county. Mr. 
Martin. (On Ben Lomond, Scotland. E.) A. May—Oct. 
AGROSTEM'MA.* Caiyx one leaf, tubular, coriaceous: 
Petals five, with claws: border blunt, undivided : Caps. 
one-celled. 
A. githa'go. Plant hairy: calyx longer than the blossom: petals 
entire, not crowned with teeth. 
{E. Bot. 741. E.)— Curt. 20 9—Kniph. 5—FI. Ban. 576—Bod. 173 —Lob. 
Obs. 23. 2—Ger. Em. 1087— Park. 632. 9—H. Ox. v. 21. 31—Pet. 57. 12 
—Fuchs. 127—J. B. iii. 341. 2—Trag. 127—Matth. 798—Ger. 926— 
Wale. — Lonic. i. 83. 3. 
{Stem erect, two or three feet high, leafy, branched. Leaves sessile, strap- 
spear-shaped. Calyx ten-ribbed, hard and tough. E.) Flowers purplish 
red, sometimes white, (streaked, large. E.) 
Corn Cockle. (Irish: Cogal. Welsh: Bulwg. E.) In corn-fields, fre¬ 
quent. A. June—July.f 
LYCH'NIS.J Calyx one leaf, tubular, five-toothed: Petals 
five, with claws, limbs often cloven, (and mostly 
crowned : E.) Caps, one or five-celled. 
L. dioPca. Flowers dioecious: capsule one-celled: (petals cloven, 
crowned with four teeth. E.) 
( Stems one to three feet high, branched, hairy, viscid at the joints. Leaves 
hairy, egg-spear-shaped, sessile above, the lower ones stalked, sometimes 
wavy. Cal. tubular, dark red or purplish, ten-ribbed, in the fertile flow¬ 
ers ovate, ventricose ; in the sterile ones cylindrical. Flowers in a termi¬ 
nal, leafy, branched panicle. E.) 
Var. 1. Biurna. Blossoms red, scentless : capsules roundish. 
Curt. — (E. Bot. 1579. E.)— Kniph. 116— Ludw. 170— Wale. — Clas.i. 294. 1 
— Bod. 171. 1— Lob. Obs. 181. 2- — Ger. Em. 469. 1— Park. 631.1 and 2 — 
H. Ox. v. 21. 23— Pet. 57. 6. 
A specimen gathered on the rocks at Blaize Castle, near Bristol, has the 
upper leaves egg-shaped, and the lower ones circular. 
* (From aypog, a field ; and are/x/xu, a coronet; quasi the garland of the fields. E.) 
j- (Should be eradicated by hand whilst young. The seeds being black and rough have 
been compared to a rolled up hedge hog. They are heavy, and their black husks, when 
mixed with wheat, breaking so fine as to pass the boulters, render the flour specky. They 
are therefore obnoxious to the millers, and depreciate the sample of corn. E.) 
| (From Kvyyog, a lamp; alluding to its flame-coloured and flickering petals: or, as 
others conjecture, from the resemblance of the semi-transparent calyx to a lantern. E.) 
