344 | De. Suirrü's Defcription 
Flores <è dichotomià caulis, folitarii, primo fubfefliles, ftatim pe- 
‘dunculati; pedunculis stram. filiformibus, puueicntibis 5, 
fructiferis reflexis. = 
Calyx è foliolis quatuor, parum patentibus, lanceolatis, acutis, 
concavis, bafi obtusé carinatis, extüs pubefcentibus, intüs 
Jucidis; quorum duo oppofita anguftiora - dunt, faninegar 
membranacea, 
Petala quatuor, calyce ferè duplo breviora, cuneiformia, alba, tenu- 
iffima, apice bifida, lobis acutis, rectis. 
-Stamina quatuor, æqualia, petalis alternantia parumque breviora. 
Filamenta capilaria, alba. Anthere parve, fubrotundæ, lu- 
teolæ. 
Piflillum. Germen — longitudine ftaminum, palhdé Xi- 
Tefcens, glabrum. Sy% quatuor, breviflimi, ere&ti. Stig- 
mata recurva, villofa, alba. 
Capfula cylindrica, longitudine calycis, aureo nitens, apice de- 
hifcens denticulis octo, triangularibus, obtufiffimis. 
Semina numerofa, luteo-fufca, fubcuneiformia, depreffa, bafi emat- 
ginata, margine fcabriufcula. 
THIS plant was firft difcovered by Mr. Dickfon on the 
rocky and fandy fhores of Inch-Keith and Inch-Combe in the 
Firth of Forth, as well:as on the beach below Preftonpans. 
Its habit is altogether that. of a. Ceraffium, mot nearly retembling 
4C. femidecandrum, pentandrum and vulgatum, Bug ats flowers being 
4 | conitantly 
