there are styles : as this advances to maturity, a separation 
takes place at the ridges, the sutures unite, and the fruit is 
separated into carpels. Our plants, for the seeds of which 
we are indebted to the Horticultural Society, flowers in 
June and July, and proves perfectly hardy, ripening its 
seeds very copiously. 
Descr. Root annual. Stems weak, branched, rounded, 
succulent, glabrous. Leaves three to four inches long, 
linear-oblong, usually in whorls of three each, entire, sessile, 
ciliated, marked with three to four parallel nerves, glaucous, 
as is the whole plant. Peduneles axillary, longer than the 
leaves, single-flowered, somewhat hispid with patent hairs. 
Sepals three, oval, concave, hispid, soon falling away. 
Petals six, oval-oblong, concave, spreading, of a pale sul- 
phur yellow. Stamens several. Filaments broad, petaloid, 
the inner ones gradually broader: Anthers linear-oblong, 
terminal. Germen oval, bristly, with six to nine deep fur- 
rows, and an equal number of linear, downy styles: eyen- 
tually separating into as many distinct, cylindrical, knotted 
carpels as there are ridges. 
Fig. 1.2. Stamens. 3. Pistil. 4. Germen laid open. 5. Carpel. 
