4. Spergularia J. & Ce. Presl. 
Low herbs, commonly in sandy soil. Leaves filiform; stipules scarious. 
Flowers in terminal cymes. Sepals 5. FPetals 5, entire. Stamens 2-10, 
Capsule commonly d-valved. 
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Le Se rubra (Le}] Je & Ce Presl. Sand Spurrffy. A low herb with 
numerous tufted slender stems, 10-15 cm. loul, from a short tap root; 
leaves linear, commonly 1 cme long, opposite, with several smaller leaves 
fascicled in the axils, all clabrous, the stipules lanceolate, 5-4 mn. long, 
scarious; pedicels 5-5 :m. lone; calyx 5.5 ma. long, the sepals oblong-obtuse, 
scarious margined, glandular-pubescent; corolla pinkish, somewhat longer than 
the calyx; the stamens yellow; capsule ovoid, included within the persistent 
calyx, reddish; seeds ninutely roughened. (Dissa rubra Britton). 
4 frequent weed in tne crassland, forming mats over dry ground, barren 
roaisices, paths and around buildi-2zs. 
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Leaves appearing whorled due to fascicles of similar leaves in the 
axils; stipules scarious, i‘lowers in cymose panicles, Sepals 5, Stamens 
10 or 5. Styles 5, Capsule Sevalved, the valves ovoosite the sepals, 
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- 1. S. arvensis L. Corn spurrfye Annual 950-50 em. tall, diffusely branched 
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4 toe base, the stems asccnaing, shortly glandular-pubescent; leaves 2=3 
em, long, filiform; sepals 5,5-4 mn, long, narrowly ovate, somewhat longer 
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in truits; petals white, subequal to the sepals; capsule ovoid, half again 
as long as she cal-x,. 
An occasional weed in tields and waste places in the crassland; natvural- 
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