308 DECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Arenaria. 



Alsine n. 875. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 386. 



A. minor multicaulis. Bauh. Pin. 250. RaiiSyn. 349. 



A. minor. Fiichs. Hist. 23. f. Dalech. Hist. 1233./. 



A. tertium genus. Fuchs. Ic. 12./. 



A. minima. Dod. Pempt. 30. f. Ger. E)n. 6\2.f. 



A. petraea. Ger. Em. 612./ 



On walls and dry sandy ground, common. 



Annual. July. 



The stem is copiously divided from the very bottom, forked in the 

 upper part, leafy, round, rigid, rough with very short deflexed 

 hairs, forming a little bushy herb, 3 or 4 inches high. Leaves 

 small, ovate, acute, ribbed, dotted, minutely fringed, greyish 

 green, without stipulas. Fl. small, white, solitary, from the 

 forks of the stem, on downy, round, upright stalks. Calyx- 

 leaves ovate, acute, hairy, with a membranous border ; the 2 in- 

 nermost with 3 ribs only. Pet. rather shorter than the calyx. 

 Caps, ovate, with 6 teeth. Seeds tawny, roughish. 



4. A. tenuifolia. Fine-leaved Sandwort. 



Leaves awl-shaped, pointed. Stem panicled. Capsules 

 erect, of three valves. Petals lanceolate, shorter than 

 the calyx. 



A.tenuifolia. Linn. Sp. PI. 607. mild.v.2.725. Fl.Br.4Sl. Engl. 

 Bot. v.4.t.2\9. Hook. Scot. 138. Dicks. H. Sice. fasc. 10.11. 

 Ehrh. Phyt. 25. Fl. Dan. t. 389. 



Alsine n. 865 and 866. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 383. 



A. tenuifolia. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 364./ Raii Syn. 350. Vaill. 

 Par. 7. t.3.f. 1. Segu. Veron. v.\.A\S.t. 6./ 2. 



A. viscosa. Schreb. Lips. 30. 



In dry barren sandy fields, and on walls, but not very frequent. 



In several parts of Cambridgeshire. Ray. At Oxburgh, Norfolk. 

 Mr. Pitchford. Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard. Oxfordshire. 

 Sibth. 



Annual. June. 



Stem like the last, but the hairs, if any, are long and spreading. 

 Leaves awl-shaped, 3-ribbed at the back, combined at the base. 

 Flower-stalks capillary, erect, longer than the leaves. FL very 

 small, white, with red anthers. Calyx-leaves lanceolate, 3-ribbed, 

 taper-pointed, with membranous edges. Stam. certainly 1 in 

 general, but they are found in Switzerland of every number 

 from 3 to 10, and may vary no less in England. Styles 3. Caps. 

 very delicate and pellucid, of 3 narrow valves, recurved at the 

 point, longer than the calyx. The whole herb is occasionally 

 hairy or smooth, sometimes viscid ; which, with the variableness 

 of the stamens, caused Haller to describe it twice overj and 

 LinniBUS sometimes confounded it with his own Alsine segetalis, 

 a very distinct plant. 



