JOHN HOOG, Esq.-Essex; In the fens of Tilbury Fort: Mr. MILNE.—Hampshire; Townhill Common: N. J. WINCH, Esq.- Norfolk; Horning : J. PAGET, in N. B. G. Ormesley Common, abundant: Hist. Yarm. Dereham, and Ellingham: S. P. WOODWARD, in N. B. G.-Royden Fen: Rev. A. BLOXAM, ibid.-Northumberland; On the heath at Prestwick Carr: N. J. WINCH, Esq. On moors and boggy places near Berwick, frequent: Dr. G. JOHNSTON. On Learmouth Bog: N. J. WINCH, Esq.-Notts; Basford Scottum; Edingley Moor; Bullwell and Popplewick Forests; Pleasley and Fountain Dale Bogs: Dr. HowITT, in N. B. G.-Suffolk; Near Bungay: Mr. D. STOCK, in N. B. G. -Surrey; On Bagshot Heath: N. J. WINCH, Esq. ibid.-Warwickshire; Coleshill Bog: T. PURTON, Esq. Boggy meadows by the Thames, under Dort's Hill, near Middleton: Ray's Catal.-Worcestersh. Freckenham Moors: T. PURTON, Esq.-Yorkshire; On the red marl, near Richmond: Mr. WARD, in N. B. G. Fields half way between Preston and Swindon : N. J. WINCH, Esq. ibid.-WALES. Anglesey; By the Menai Bridge: N. J. WINCH, Esq.-In Carnarvonshire; J. E. BowMAN, in N. B. G.—SCOTLAND. Aberdeensh. About seven miles from Aberdeen, in a swamp upon the East side of the road to Udny, near the dark serpentine rocks: Dr. MURRAY, ibid.-Argyleshire; Bute: J. HOOKER, Esq. Locheil Moors, at about 400 yards above Loch Eil; the highest station in which 1 have observed it: Mr. WATSON, in N. B. G.— Fifeshire; Bog near Anstruther: Dr. GRAHAM.-Forfarshire; Wet ground adjacent to Montrose: Dr. MURRAY, in N. B. G.–Řoss-shire; Black Isle: Dr. MURRAY, ibid.-Sutherland; Moor near Farr: Mr. WATSON. Banks of Loch Shin, and not uncommon on the West side of the county: Dr. MURRAY, in N. B. G.-IRELAND. Plentiful at Portmarnock Sands, and between Baldoyle and Howth, &c. In Cunnamara, where it is very abundant; it is well known by the name of Black Keil: Mr. J. T. MACKAY.

Perennial.-Flowers in June and July.

Root of strong fibres, crowned with black, shining, upright scales or sheaths, remnants of old leaves. Culms (stems) about a foot high, simple, firm, and rigid, sheathed at the base by the remains of the old leaves. Leaves bristle-like, acute, rigid, upright, convex beneath, sheathing, shorter than the culms. Head of Flowers somewhat egg-shaped, formed of several dark purplish, black, or brown spikelets. Involucrum of 2 leaves; inner one small and membranaceous; outer one awl-shaped, longer than the flowers. Anthers long, prominent, yellow. Style jointed above the germen and darker than it. Stigmas 3, dark purple. "Bristles small (see fig. 2.), reddish-brown, spiny, the spines pointing upwards; attached to the receptacle, as SMITH observes, but certainly placed on the outside of the filaments,-which is the case also in various species of Scirpus, and, as I am inclined to believe, in all cases where bristles are to be found at all.' (Mr. WILSON, in Brit. Fl.) Fruit white and polished.

"Where'er I cast my wand'ring eyes around,
The God I seek, in every object's found:

Pursuing Thee, the verdant fields I pass,
And read Thy name in every blade of grass;
Beauty complete, and majesty divine,

In all Thy works, ador'd Creator! shine."

Mrs. RowE.

I Russell Del

W. Willis Sc.

SANGUISO'RBA*.

Linnean Class and Order. TETRA'NDRIA, MONOGY'NIA. Natural Order. ROSA'CEE; sect. SANGUISORBEA; Juss. Gen. Pl, pp. 334 & 336.-Sm. Gram. of Bot. pp. 171 & 172.-Lindl. Syn. pp. 88 & 102.-Rich. by Macgilliv. pp. 528 & 530.-Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 512.-Mack. Fl. Hibern. pp. 85 & 105.-SANGUISORBEE, Lindl. Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Bot. p. 80.-Don's Gen. Syst. of Gard. & Bot. v. ii. p. 589.-ROSALES; sect. ROSINE; subsect. ROSIANE; type, SANGUISORBACEA; Burn. Outl. of Bot. pp. 614, 683, 699, & 707.-SENTICOSA, Linn.

GEN. CHAR. Calyx (see fig. 2, b.) superior, of 1 sepal, in 4 deep, equal, egg-shaped, spreading, coloured lobes; with 2 or 4 external scales or bracteas (fig. 2, a.) at the base. Corolla none. Filaments (see fig. 2, c.) 4, from the base of the calyx, opposite to its lobes, and about as long, dilated upwards, smooth. Anthers roundish, of 2 cells. Germens (see figs. 4 & 5.) inferior, quadrangular. Style (see figs. 2 & 5.) thread-shaped, nearly as long as the stamens. Stigma notched. Fruit (fig. 5.) quadrangular, hard, not bursting, of 1 cell, containing 1 or 2 seeds.

The superior, 4-lobed, coloured calyx; with 2 or 4 bracteas at the base; and the quadrangular, 1- or 2-seeded, indehiscent fruit, surrounded by the permanent base only of the calyx; will distinguish this from other genera, destitute of a corolla, in the same class and order.

Two species British.

SANGUISO'RBA OFFICINA'LIS.

Wild Burnet. Burnet Bloodwort.

Officinal Great Burnet.

SPEC. CHAR. Plant smooth. Spikes egg-shaped. Stamens about as long as the calyx.

Engl. Bot, t. 1312.-Mart. Fl. Rust. t. 142.-Curt. Brit. Entom. v. xi. t. 493.Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 169.-Huds. Fl. Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 65.—Willd. Sp. Pl. v. i. pt. 1. p. 653.—Sm. Fl. Brit. v. i. p. 186.; Engl. Fl. v. i. p. 218.-With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p. 235.-Gray's Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 575.-Lindl. Syn. p. 103.-Hook. Brit. Fl. p. 71.-Lightf. Fl. Scot. v. i. p. 119.-Sibth. Fl. Oxon. p. 57.-Abb. Fl. Bedf. p. 31.— Purt. Midl. Fl. v. i. p. 93.-Relh. Fl. Cant. (3rd ed.) p. 64.-Hook. Fl. Scot. p. 54.-Fl. Devon. pp. 29 & 173.-Winch's Fl. of Northumb. and Durham, p. 10.Walker's Fl. of Oxf. p. 41.-Don's Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. ii. p. 594, with a figure.-Perry's Pl. Varvic. Selectæ, p. 13.-Sanguisórba major, flore spadiceo, Ray's Syn. p. 203.-Pimpinella sylvestris, Johnson's Gerarde, p. 1045.

LOCALITIES.-Low moist meadows and pastures, on a calcareous soil, chiefly in the North of England; more rare in Scotland.-Oxfordsh. Iffley, Cowley, and Binsey: Dr. SIBTHORP. Near Oddington: W. B.-Berks; Ditches about Greenham Mill, near Newbury: Mr. BICHENO. In Cumnor Meadow, abundant: W.B.-Beds. Bromham, Fenlake, and Cow Meadows: Rev. C. ABBOT.Cambridgesh. King's Hedges, Whitwell, Ditton, Shelford, Long Stanton, Cottenham, &c.: Rev. R. RELHAN. In a plantation by the great watercourse on

Fig. 1. A single Flower.-Fig. 2. Same magnified. a. the Bracteas; b. the Calyx; c. the Stamens.-Fig. 3. A single Stamen.-Fig. 4. Germen, Style, and Stigma. Fig. 5. The Fruit, a little magnified.

* From sanguis, blood; and sorbeo, to take up, or absorb; from the supposed vulnerary properties of the plant. Sir W. J. HOOKER.

Fulbourn Moor: New Bot. Guide.-Cheshire; Fields by the road, between Disley and Whaley Bridge; dry meadows near the New Bridge at Stockport: Mr. G. HOLME.-Cornwall; Goonhilly Downs: Mr. W. ALLEN. At Kedgworth: Rev. J. P. JONES.-Cumberland; Common in fields: Otley's Guide.Derbysh. Common in moist pastures: Mr. PILKINGTON. About Matlock and Buxton: Mr. WOODWARD.-Near Whaley Bridge, Castleton, and Bakewell: Mr. WATSON, in N. B. G. Near Calke Abbey: Rev. A. BLOXAM.-Devon ; Meadows between Crocombe Bridge and Cannonteign; Wood near Wear Gate by the river Mew: Fl. Devon. N. Devon, between Barnstaple and Exeter, on the river Taw: Mr. WATSON, in N. B. G.-Durham; In moist meadows and pastures, frequent: N. J. WINCH, Esq.-Gloucestersh. Banks of the Berkeley Canal, and Robin's Wood Hill, Gloucester: G. S. WINTLE, in N. B. G. In great plenty in meadows by the western side of the Severn, below Tewkesbury: N. B. G.-Hunts; About Ripton: Mr. WOODWARD.-Lancash. Near the Aqueduct, Lancaster: G. CROSFIELD, Esq.-Leicestersh. In the meadows by the river opposite Belvoir Castle; and in the fields South of Bottesford; near Merston, &c. plentifully: Rev. G. CRABBE. Glenfield, rare; at Braunston, near Leicester; and meadows about Congerstone: Rev. A. BLOXAM. Near Ashby de la Zouch, near the outwoods: C. BABINGTON, Esq. in N. B. G.— Lincolnsh. Fields about Belvoir Castle: Rev. G. CRABBE. Plentiful in meadows between Folkingham and Grantham: DAWSON TURNER, Esq.-Middlesex; Hampstead Heath: Fl. Metr.-Northumberland; Moist meadows and pastures, frequent: N. J. WINCH, Esq.-Notts. About Nottingham, especially about Beeston and Lenton: DEERING.-Staffordsh. About Stafford: Dr. WITHERING. Surrey; About Croydon: Fl. Metr.-- Warwicksh. In a field at the bottom of the Bleach-field, on a ditch bank, (Alcester); and in moist meadows at Upton, in Haslor Parish: T. PURTON, Esq. Meadows near the Race Course, &c. Warwick, plentiful: Mr. W. G. PERRY.-Common in meadows near Rugby: W. B.-In Westmoreland, common: N. B. G.-Worcestersh. In Imoist ground at the S. W. side of Nunnery Wood: E. LEES. Esq.-Yorkshire; Common in meadows at Ripon; Copgrove; and Redcar; and about Coxwold; Leeds; and Settle: Bot. Guide.-WALES. In Breconshire; Glamorganshire: Flintshire; Monmouthshire; and Montgomeryshire.-SCOTLAND. In Berwickshire; Dumfriesshire; Kirkcudbrightshire, and Roxburghshire. Perennial.-Flowers in June and July.

Root strong, and somewhat woody. Stem from 18 inches to 3 feet high, upright, furrowed, leafy, smooth; branched towards the top. Leaves unequally pinnate, of 4 or 5 pair of leaflets, and a single one terminal; those from the root with very long foot-stalks; those on the stem alternate, and smallest, with a pair of large, rounded, cut stipulas, united to the base of the common foot-stalk. Leaflets stalked, egg-oblong, and somewhat heart-shaped at the base, strongly serrated, smooth, and veiny. Spikes egg-shaped, on long flower-stalks, dense, blunt, of a dull purple, or dark blood-red colour; the upper flowers expanding first, these are often without stamens, or with only an imperfect one. Bracteas (calyx of Linn.) fringed, 4 under each flower. Calyx (corolla of Linn.) hairy on the outside at the base, tube inclosing the germen, limb in 4 eggshaped lobes, which, when old, adhere so slightly at their base that they might be almost considered as 4 distinct sepals. Stigma 4-cleft. Seed solitary, rarely two.

The whole plant is astringent. The root has been recommended as a tonic, though of very moderate efficacy. The young leaves are sometimes cut as salads, and it is used to form one of the ingredients in Cool Tankard; but the Poterium, its near ally, is far more grateful in flavour. It is a coarse plant, and does not seem to be very acceptable to cattle.