é POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNTA. 
357. PORTULACA. ZL. (Purslane.) 
Calizx inferior, bifid. Petals 5. Capsule t- 
celled, opening circularly. Receptacle uncon- 
nected, 5-lobed. 
Succulent and herbaceous plants with thickish leaves, 
which are opposite or alternate, axils of the leaves na- 
ked or piliferous; flowers terminating the smaller branch- 
es, solitary or aggregated, partly involucrate. Stamina 
sometimes 8. 
Srecies. 1. P. oleracea. Indigenous on the saline 
and denudated plains of the Missouri. A plant common 
e to every quarter of the world. 
: A tropical genus, excepting P. oleracea, consisting of 
about 6 species, indigenous to America, Egypt, and India. 
358. TALINUM. Jdanson. 
Caliz 2 to 5-leaved, inferior. Petals 5. 
Capsule t-celled, 3-valved, many seeded. Re- 
ceptacle globose. Seeds arillate. 
Shrubby suffruticose or herbaceous plants, with alter- 
nate thi , or succulent leaves, axills of the leaves 
sometimes piliferous; flowers terminal, paniculate, race- 
mose or corymbose. 
Spectres. 1. T. teretifolium. Leaves terete, subulate, 
camose; scape cymose, flowers pedunculate polyandrous 
calix 2-leaved, Pluk. Phyt. t. 223. f. 2. “Sedum petrz- 
um teretifolium Virginianum.” Oss. Root perennial, 
subcespitose, leaves crowded, radical; scapes elongated 
pacar flowers purple, peduncle subtended by opposite 
bractes. Has. Inthe mountains of Vir- 
: bili; and in Louisiana near St. Louis. Found also several 
owe Darlington near Chester in the state of 
359. CHELIDONIUM. Z. (Celandine.) 
Calia 2-leaved, deciduous. Petals 4, Btig- 
ma ‘small and bifid, sessile. Silique superior, 
: ved, namat linear. Dissepiment none. 
: thors aah Sea 
