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PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, — 
nearly glabrous, cuneate-oblong, acute; flowers erect, - 
shorter than the stipules—Stamina 3 3, rarely 5; leaves. 
Kehroggh a glass) subciliate. 
*capillacea. Brect and glabrous, Sicha cuscaaly and 
diffusely branched, branches eapillary; leaves ovate, very 
smooth, attenuated towards the base, rather obtuse; flows 
ers spreading, longer than the stipules,—Stamina 3, rarely 
5. Both these species are annual. 
Of this genus there are 2 other species enumerated by- 
Persoon, namely the Q. Hispanica and Q.?2 ivichotoma of 
Japan. 
235. PARONYCHIA. Tournefort and Jussieu, 
ANYCHIA. Michaux. 
Calix 5-parted, segments acuminate from 
below the internal apex, (or subsaccate) and co- 
toured on the inner side. Corelfa none. Five - 
filaments alternating with the stamina. Style 
4 bifid; stigmata capitate. Utriculus 1-seeded, 
summit hemispherical, sometimes vebeujar? co- 
- vered by the connivent calix. . 
Herbaceous, cespitose or procumbent ‘plants, Hepes, 
opposite, and stipulate; flowers cymose or terminal, 
greenish or calycine, lined with a petaloid meinbrang 
separating from the calix at its summit. 
Species. 1. P. Herniarvides. 2. *dichotoma. Cespi- 
- tose and procumbent, glabrous. leaves acerose, linear, 
; acute, on either side marked with two grooved lines; sti-_ 2 
_ pules bifid, bractes shorter than the flowers; cyme dicho- ae 
Pe - tomous; segments of the calix minutely mucronate. = 
‘ Achyranthes dichotoma. Linn. Iileeebrum di mum. 
Vitup. 
Leaves site i ich \onsg, Walia ita Nltin 
thick and flat; a bifid, a little shorter than be 
leaves, white, chaff; ye with subulate capillary points. © 
Leaves on the infertile branches imbricately se gg pes 
1 the flower stems remote. Flower stellate; segments of 
: the calix furnished internally with arched scales nearthe 
stmmit, points pangently acute. Sterile sete, short; 
style bifid. Utriculus not s sporencously valvular, smooth. 
_ Seed reniform; perisperm farinaceous; cotyledoneslinear, 
ed, green.—The habit of this plant is somata Mia 
Sedum reflexum, but not succulent.  —_- 
Haprrat. On slate rocks, by the i 
Shenandoah, Virginia, in the vicinity of Ha rf. 
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