G8 PINK FAMILY. 



A. diffusa, SPREADING S. Shady grounds S. Plant soft-downy ; stems 

 prostrate, 1 or more long; leaves lanceolate; peduncles lateral, 1 -flowered ; 

 petals shorter than the sepal- or none. 2/ 



* * Petals coim/iiciiou.-i, /</,/</</ than thernli/r, ir/u'tr. 2/ 



A. lateriflora, SIDE-FLOWERING s. (inneiiy shores and hank- N. 

 Plant minutely downy ; stem erect. .3'- 10' high, sparingly -branching; pedun- 

 cles few-flowered, -ooii becoming lateral hy the farther growth of the leafy stem; 



leaves oval or oblong. 



A. Stricta. Rocky or shady hanks X. Tufted, smooth, 4'-G' high ; stems 

 crowded with slender almost liristlf-form leaves; flower- several in a terminal 

 openevme; sepals sharp-pointed. 



A. Squarrdsa, PINI:-H.M:I:K\ S. In si'iid, coast of New Jersey and S. 

 D'liselv tufted on a deep root, .'!' - 5' high; leaves much crowded, short, awl- 

 shaped,' smooth; the flowering branches or few-flowered peduncles glandular ; 

 sepals ohtiise. 



A. Groenlandica, MOVXTAIN S. On rocky summits of mountains and 

 N. K. coa-t. Densely tufted, soft; leaves thread-form ; flowering stem- 2' - 4' 

 high, few-flowered, the flowers large in proportion ; petal- notched at the cud. 



'A. peploides, SKA SANHWOUT, in sands of .sea-shore N., is large, with 

 verv fleshy ovate le.ives, and axillary flowers. 



11. SPERGULARIA, SAND SPURREY. (Name from likeness to 

 X/ifi-i/ii/it.) A sort of Saiidworts with scaly-membranaceous stipules, and 

 reddi-h (lower-, produced all summer : ehielly maritime. i 2/ '. 



S. rubra. The Held form of this is common in sand or gravel, along roads 

 and paths, E., quite away from salt water ; smoothish, prostrate in tufts ; leaves 

 thread-shaped ; pod anil pink-red corolla hardly exceeding the calyx ; seeds 

 rough, windless, half-obovate. 



S. salina. Larger and more fleshy, only in brackish sands ; with short 

 peduncles, pale corolla, pod longer than the calyx, and rough obovate-ronnded 

 (winged or \\ in-le--) seed-. 



S. media. Like the last, in salt marshes and sands, hut with longer pedun- 

 cles and smooth seeds. 



12. SPERGULA, SPUR KEY. (Latin spargere, to scatter, i. e. its seeds.) 

 S. arv6nsis, C*>KN S. Stems 1 or so high ; bearing several thread- 

 shaped leaves in the whorls, and terminatm;: in a panicle of white flowers. 

 A weed in grain-nelds, cult, in Europe as a forage plant, sheep being fond of it : 

 fl. summer, (i) 



13. ANYCHLA FORKED CI1ICKWEED. (Name of obscure mean- 

 ing.) i 



A. dich6torua, a common little herb ; in shady places it is smooth ami 

 erect, G'-IO' hi.uli, ^ith repeatedly forking long-jointed very slender stems, 

 minute short-stalked greenish flowers in the forks, and oval or oblong leaves: in 

 drv or parched soil it is spreading on the ground, short-jointed, narrower-leaved, 

 often pubescent, the flowers more clustered and nearly sessile : all summer. 



14. SCLERANTHUS, KNA\VEL. (From (i reek words meaning linrd 

 und /loinr, referring to the indurated tube of the calyx.) 



S. annuus, our only species, is nat. from En. in gravelly grounds, around 

 gardens, ,c., a very pale little herb, 3' - 5' hit^h, very much branched and 

 spreading, with short awl-shaped leaxe-, and greenish small flowers clustered or 

 sessile in the forks, in late summer and autumn. 



15. MOLLUGO, CARPET -WEED. (An old Latin name for some soft 



plant.) i 



M. verticillata. A very common, small, prostrate and spreading little 

 wee<|, in waste gravellv soil, gardens, &c., with spatulate leaves and 1-flowered 

 pedicels in clusters or whorls at the joints ; the sepals white inside ; stamens 3- 

 fl. all summer. 



