DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Spergula. 337 



A. Spergula dicta major. Bauh. Pin. 2i)\. Raii. Sijn. ^iil. Dti- 



ham. Cult. v. 6. 149. t. 1. 

 Saginae Spergula. Ger. Em. 1 125. /. 



/3. Spergula pentandra. E)igl. Bot. v. 22. t. 1536. Comp. 72. Ab- 

 bot. 102? 

 Alsine Spergula dicta, semine membran. fusco. Moris. Raii Syn. 



ed. 2.210? 

 y. S. pentandra. Linn. Sp. PL 630. ed. 1. 440. mihl. v. 2. 818. 



Fl.Br.503. Loejl. It. Hisp.\ 43. Roth Germ. v. \. \96. v. 2. 505. 



Hoffm. Germ, for 1800.213. Ehrh. Herb. IG. Wahlenb. Lapp. 



138, under n. 249. 

 S. annua, semine foliaceo nigro, circulo membranaceo albo cincto. 



Dill, in Raii Syn. 351. Giss. 46. Ephem. Nat. Cur. cent. 5 and 



6. 275. t.4.f. 1. 

 Alsine marginata. Sclireb. Lips. 31. 

 A. spergulae facie minima. Mogn. Monsp. 14. 

 A. spergulae facie minima, seminibus marginatis. Tonrn. Inst. 244. 



Linnaeus by mistake always quotes it emarginatis. 

 A. Spergula annua, semine' foliaceo nigro, circulo membranaceo 



albo cincto. Moris, v. 2. 551. sect. 5. t. 23. /. last but one, 



marked 2. Hort. Bles. 228. 

 Arenaria teretifolia verna, flore albo, semine limbo foliaceo cincto. 



Rupp. Jen. 101. ed. Hall. 113. 

 In sandy cornfields. 



/3. About the botanic garden, Liverpool. Mr. J. Shepherd, 

 y. In sandy ground in Ireland. Sherard. 



Annual. June, July. 



Root small, tapering. Stems spreading, lax, from 6 inches to 2 

 feet in length, moderately branched, jointed, leafy ; round in 

 the lower part ; angular upwards ; hairy and viscid, especially 

 in the upper part ; each branch terminating in a forked, divari- 

 cated, downy, viscid panicle. Leaves numerous at every joint, 

 irregularly and imperfectly whorled, linear, narrow, fleshy, 

 downy, sometimes nearly smooth, bluntish ; flat above ; rounded 

 beneath. Stipulas in pairs under each whorl, membranous, very 

 short. Flower-stalks an inch or more in length, round, slender, 

 downy, spreading j strongly reflexed as the fruit ripens. Calyx- 

 leaves obtuse, downy, with membranous edges. Pet. white, a 

 little longer than the calyx. Stam. generally 10, often 5, or some 

 intermediate number. 'S/2/?es constantly 5. C«ps. longer than 

 the calyx, splitting more than half way down into 5 undivided 

 teeth or valves. Seeds numerous, roundish, commonly black, 

 tumid and angular, with an obsolete border, and covered with 

 small tubercles or bristles j but in /3 they are compressed, 

 smooth, with a narrow whitish membranous border 5 and m y 

 they are quite flat, pale with a dark edge, and a white, mem- 

 branous, striated border, or wing, equal to the seed itself m 

 breadth. 



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