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LINNÆÀ floribus geminis. //«//. Äftfo. «. 299.
Dan. Marisicgroes. .: Norw. Norislegrces. Linneeiurt. . Swed. Vindgi Upland. Benvärksg
[N atural Ord e r . CAPRI FOLIACEÆ, Juss., Dècand., Hook.]
Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus, superus. Corolla c am p an u la , quinquefida, æqualis. Bacca sicca trilocularis, loculo
unico solummodo seminifero. Semen unieum. Imoluerum subteti aphyllum ad basin germinis.
Gen. Char. Calyx five-partite, superior. Corolla'campanulate, quinquefid, equal Fruit a dry three-celled Berry
with one cell only bearing a seed. Seed solitary. Involucre of about four leaves at the base of the germem
Root perennial, consisting of a few simple fibres, which spring
here and there from the lower part o f the stem.
Stem long, slender, filiform, creeping, twiggy, slightly pubescent,
not unfrequently producing at intervals innovations
.which are proliferous a t the extremity.
L eaves opposite, between ovate and. round, upon short footstalks,
glabrous, recurved, crenàtëd towards the extremities,
somewhat cuneate and entire at their bases ;
above bright green, beneath paler.
Peduncles exceeding a finger’s length, springing from the
axils of the leaves or points of the branches, erect,
slender, downy, two-flowered. Pedicels scarcely an
inch long, furnished at the base and just beneath the
extremity with two small glanduloso-pilose bracteas.
F lowers graceful, fragrant, drooping.
Calyx superior, of five divisions, the segments linear-lanceolate,
appressed to the base of the corolla, hairy, with
glands at the back and margin, one of the segments
sometimes spathulate, as represented in the figure.
Corolla campanulate, quinquefid, its lobes rather unequal,
slightly spreading and blunt, rose-coloured, having
within white hairs, towards the base of the tube yellow.
Stamens four, didynamous, shorter than the corolla. Filaments
glabrous, white. Anthers oblong, yellow.
P ist il : Germen inferior, rather rounded, rough with glands
([three-celled, each cell containing three to live ovules,
inserted in the interior angle) ; with a four-leaved involucre,
the leaflets ovate, two opposite ones minute,
the two larger ones afterwards increase in size and
cover the fruit. Style rather shorter than the corolla.
Stigma capitate.
“ P e r ica rp : a dry, membranaceous, oblong-ovate Berry, at
first three-celled, afterwards two cells become always
abortive, together with the rudiments of their seeds,
so that the ripé berry is always found one-seeded and
oblique.
Receptacle none ; Seeds fixed by their extremity to the
terminal axis of the fruit.
Se ed single, small, oblong, rather.acute, having a brown line
on one side which reaches to the insertion of the seed-
stalk.
I ntegument simple, thin, membranaceous.
Albumen of the same shape as the seed, fleshy, rather soft,
white.
E mbryo dicotyledonous, inverted, inserted in the upper part
of the albumen, linear, half the length of the albumen.
Cotyledons oblong. Radicle cylindrical, superior.”
Radix perennis, e fibris paucis simplicibus ex inferiore parte
caulis hic-iilic provenientibus.
I Caulis longus, gracilis, filiformis, repens, sublignosus, vix
pubesceus, hic illie innovationibus ràmosis, non rarô
ad extremitatem prolifer.
Folia opposità, ovato-roturidata, breviter petiolata, glabra,
recurva, antice crenata, basi subcuneata in’tègerrima,
supra læte viridia, subtus pallidiora.
Pedunculus digitalis et ultra, ex axillis foliorum vel ex apice
ramulorum ortus, erectus, gracilis, pubescens, biflorus.
Pedicelli vix unciam longi, ad basin atque subapicem
bibracteati ; bracteis parvis glanduloso-pilosis.
Flores elegantes, fragrantes, cernui.
I Calyx superus, quinquepartitus, laciniis lineari-lanceolatis,
basi corolhe appressis, dorso margineque glanduloso-
pilosis, lacinia altera quandoque spathulata, ut in
figura.
Corolla campanulata, quinquefida, lobis subinæqualibus,
paululuin patentibus, obtusis ; rosea, intus albo-pilosa,
versus basin tubi flava.
Stamina quatuor, didynama, corolla breviora. Filamenta
glabra, alba. Anther® oblongæ, flavæ.
PiSTiLLUM: Germeninferum,subrotundatum, piloso-glandulo-
sum, triloculare (loculo singuloQvulis tribus ad quinque,
ad angulum interiorum insertis); involucre tetraphyllo,
foliolis ovatis, duobus oppositis minutis, duobus ma-
joribus demum grossescunt, fructumque tegunt. Stylus
corollas paululum brevior. Stigma capitatum.
“ Pericarpium : Bacca sicca, membranacea, oblongo-ovata,
primùm trilocularis, denique loculi duo semper oblite-
raiitur una cum primitiis seminum, ut bacca matura
semper monosperma reperitur et obliqua.
I Receptaculum nullum ; Semina apice
, minali adfixa.
I Semen unum, parvum, obloni
trali linea fusca ad ins
i fructus teriin,
acutiusculum, in latere vei
tionem funiculi decurrente.
I Integumentum simplex
[ Albumen semini conforn
tenue, membranaceum.
î, carnosum, submolle, album.
bryo dicotyledoneus, inversus, in suprema parte albuminis
bosrens, linearis,albumine dimidium brevior. Cotyledo-
nes oblong®. Radicula cylindracea, supera.”—IVahl.
| % 1, 2. Flower. Fig. 3. Bud. Fig. 4. Corolla cut open t
j show the stamens. Fig. 5. Single stamen. Fig. 6. Ad-
7. Section of the germen :—all more or less magnified.
vanced germen; the corolla having fallen away. Fig. ‘
by the recolWtf0118^ Cu rare oc<?urrence ° f ^ is plant, its gracefulness and fragrance, or the classical interest that is excited
1 which for S 0 t . e ltnm01'1?1 Svvede whose name it bears, and who so often gathered it in that country (Lapland) of
mnr„„__MhkI tlme 11 was considered to be exclusively a native, we believe that i ......................... ~
‘‘D»C8*)tai)'e sui)J®ct to the attention of the lovers of British botany.
RccAa.,says Sir James Edward Smith, (in an account of th e j^H
nil hardly be i r power to offer 1
[ Precedes anndmi70w'1 v c "1?'3 rja.wara 3muni fln an account of the genus in Rees’s Cyclopaedia, which almost immediately
I binnteus- and 6 u’ b'om_the same pen, of the eminent Swede,) “ is so called in honour o f the great Swedish naturalist
| name, wh’en i,_ aPP^ars)|by the journal of his Tour to Lapland, to- have been chosen by himself to commemorate his own S®»* s c r S lS lo . ‘k,!.1 t May 29, 1732. Former botanists had called this elegant and singular little plant
Pd (folia ; but Linnaeus, prosecuting the study of vegetables on the only certain principles, the structure of