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GLOBULARIA cordifolia.
Wedge-leaved Globularia.
Natural Order. G lobu la r inj E. Link enum. 1. p . 123.
G LO B U L A R IA . Supra, fol. 20.
G. cordifolia, caule subnudo, foliis cuneiformibus tridentatis ;
dente intermedio minimo. Pers. syn. 1. p . 118.
Globularia cordifolia. Willden. sp. p l.^ . p .5 4 \. Hort. Kew.
ed. 2. V. 1. p. 223. Rosm. et Schult. syst. 3. p .4 0 . Jacq.
aust. 3. p . 26. t. 245. Lam. ill. gen. t. 5 6 ./. 2.
Root perennial. Stems numerous, prostrate, much
branched, and extended to a considerable distance,
smooth and shining, of a dull purple colour. Leaves
numerous, crowded, smooth and shining, wedge-
shaped, attenuated down the petiole, 3-toothed at the
end, the middle tooth very small; margins unequal,
rough, but scarcely crenulate. Petioles channelled on
the upper side, and convex on the lower. Flower-
stalks naked, or with here and there a small leaf on
them, angular, deeply furrowed, with numerous unequal
furrows; io our specimen, from 2 to 3 inches
long. Flowers pale blue, tinged with u'hite. Involucre
or Common Calyx imbricate; leaflets rigid, spatulately-
lanceolate, obtuse. Receptacle paleaceous. Proper
Calyx tubular, very hairy below the segments, 5-cleft;
2 lower segments broadest, lanceolate, taper-pointed;
upper ones subulate. Corolla tubular, 2-lipped ; upper
lip 2-parted, segments very narrow, obtuse; lower lip
3-parted, segments larger, bluntish. Stamens 4, inserted
in the tube; filaments long and slender; anthers
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