& ce. Specularia (Heist.) Fabr. 
Low annuals with alternate sessile leaves. Flowers axillary, the 
earlier cleistogamos ie. fertilized in the bud, having no proper corolla, 
the later bearing a nermal corolla. Sepals 5. Corolla rotate, S-lobed, 
Stamens 5, distinct. Capsule narrowly cylindrical, 5-chambered, opening 
by 3 small lateral pores by the inrolling of small flaps. 
= (Venus? Looking Glass) 
1. S- perfoliata (L.) A. De. Xf Stems erect, unbranched, or with a 
few weaker branches from near the base, 20-40 om. tall 9 pubescent with 
spreading hairs; leaves broadly ovate or subrotund, 8-35 mm. in diameter, 
sessile and clasping the stems, crenate and thinly pubescent; flowers solitary 
or two in the axils, sessile, the ovaries more or less concealed by the 
embracing leaves; calyx lobes lanceolate » very acute,5.5-4 mn. long; persistent; 
corolla violet-blue, funnel -shaped, 5-7 mn. long; capsules 6-8 mm. long; seeds 
lenticular, brown, minutely roughened. 
Occasional in dry ground in the lower valleys. . > 
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