CARYOPHYLLE.K. 53 



IIAB- Common in dry stony places: on walls. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Roots fibrous. Stem branching at the root : branches pro 

 cumbent, afterwards ascending, dichotoniously subdivided, 4-ago- 

 iial, pnberulous with glanduloso-capitate hairs. Leaves oppo- 

 site, shortly petiolate, subrotund, apiculated, subentire, 3-nerved, 

 delicately reticulato-venose, minutely pnberulous to the glass. 

 Stipules multifido-ciliated. Flower-branchlets bifurcating with 

 the leaf-bearing branches : common peduncle usually about 3 

 inches long, bifurcating, viscid with capitato-glandulose hairs : 

 a pair of small lanceolate bracteas at the divisions of the panicle. 

 Flowers small, shortly pedicelled. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acute. 

 Petals rather shorter than the sepals, deeply bipartite. Sta- 

 mens 2, incumbent. Ovary globose : styles 3, short, patent. 

 Capsule ovate, 3-gonal, 3-valved to the base, 1-celled, 5-seeded : 

 seeds annuloso-reniform, minutely and closely granulose : em- 

 bryo peripheral. 



2. Drymaria cordata. Heart-leaved Drymaria. 



Stem and leaves glabrous subrotund apiculated ob- 

 soletely cordate at the base, j^eduncles elongated dicho- 

 tomously subdivided many-flowered, calyx glabrous 

 longer than the petals, ovaries 7-10-seeded. 



Sloane, I. 203. — Brotone, 139. — Holosteum cordatura, Lam' 

 111. t. 51. f. 2 — Drymaria cordata, De Cand. Prod. I. 3U3. — 

 H. B. et Kutith, VI. 23. 



HAE. Rocky places in the mountains. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Herbaceous, at the base procumbent, afterwards ascending 

 dichotomously branched, terete, glabrous. Leaves 3-nerved. 

 Stipules lacinulato-fimbriated. Peduncle axillary, elongated, 

 dichotomously subdivided, with a pair of small lanceolate brac- 

 teas at the divisions : pedicels short, 1-flowered, covered with a 

 minute snow-white pubescence. Flowers small collected at the 

 ends of the bi-anchlets of the panicle. Sepals 5, lanceolate. 

 Petals shorter than the sepals, bipartite nearly to the base. 

 Stamens 3- rarely 4, shorter than the petals : anthers bi-cor 

 puscular, inserted on opposite sides of the extremity of the fila- 

 ment. Ovary globose, 3-gonal : styles 3, rather short, spread- 

 ing. Capsule oval, 3-gonal, 3-valved to the base, 1-celled, 8- 

 seeded : seeds subreniform, minutely granulose under the glass. 



This species differs from the preceding, in the leaves being 

 larger and more succulent, perfectly glabrous, and prominently 

 3-nerved, and the flower-stalks being free of any viscid pubes- 

 cer\ce. It is only found in mountain districts. 



