178 _ PENTANORIA. DIGYNIA. 
each With 3 marginafed dorsal ribs, and 4 
~ obtuse-angled grooves.—Involucrum about 5- 
leaved. 
A small succulent, repent plant; peduncles axillary, um- 
bell many-flowered; leaves sessile, cuneate-linear, with 
_ 5 transverse nerves (or dissepiments.) Nearly allied to 
Azorella, but of a very different habit. 
C. lineata. Hydrocotyle lineata, Mich. 1. p. 162. JL si- 
nensis? L.~ 
Is; anthers roundish. s very short, re- 
“with an elevated roundish base, forming 
nost he germ, which thus appears as if cut round, 
about the middle. Fruit nearl seen commissure 
(or interior surface of junctiaa’ suborbicular, and de- 
_ pressed, with a thick suberose, connivent margin. seeds 
_ Convex, unegual, one of them often abortive? internally 
* geigy, Concave, having 3 margined dorsal ribs or elévated lines, 
_ exclusive of the commissure; rvais smooth. . 
; rom New Jersey to Florida, in salt marshes? 
nt near Egg-harbour, New Jersey, in a salt- 
fem D 
this genus probably appertairis Hydrocotyle linifolia, 
ind H. virgata, which are certainly distinct from the pre- 
- sent species, considered, however, the same with H. sinen- 
sis by the ediior of Rees” Cyclopedia: see Hydrocotyle. 
8. SAN. CULA. L. (Sanicle.) 
and stamina inflected, Fruit muri- 
umbelliferous: radii or branches 3 or 4 un- 
juncea, &e.) Flowering time, from. 
arly simple, capitate, —Calix 5-part- 
uncinate seta. Flowers of the disk 
