HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Peplis. 187 



A. valentina. Clus.Hist.v.2.l86.f. Ger.Em.566.f. Lob.IcA2\.f. 



Quadrifoglio annuo di Persia. Zanon. 1st. 164. t. 66. 



Valentia Knot-grass. Pet. H. Brit. i?. 10./. 8. 



On the sea coast of Sussex^ very rare. 



Found by Mr. Brewer on the Sussex coast. Dillenius. Between 

 Bognor and Brighthelmston. Huds. 



Annual. July. 



Root fibrous. Stems numerous, prostrate, leafy, downy, branched 

 from the very base, forked. Leaves opposite, or 4 together, on 

 fringed stalks, single-ribbed, slightly revolute ; smooth and 

 green above ; hoary, as if powdery, beneath. Fl. pale red, chiefly 

 from the forks of the stem. 



202. PEPLIS. Purslane. 



Linn.Gen.\76. Juss. 333. Fl.Br.389. Lam. t. 262. Gcertn.t.51. 



Portula. Dill. Gen. 133. t.7. 



Glaucoides. Mich. Gen. 21. t.\8.f.l. 



Nat. Ord. Calyca7ithema:. Linn. 17. Salicarice. Juss. 91. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, bell-shaped, large, permanent, in 6, 

 rather deep, acute segments, with as many intermediate 

 plaits. Pei. 6, very minute, obovate, inserted into the 

 throat of the calyx, between its segments. Filam. thread- 

 shaped, incurved, shorter than the calyx, alternate with 

 the petals. Anth. roundish. Gerjn. superior, globular, 

 furrowed. Style very short, cylindrical. Stigma capitate, 

 globose. Caps, globose, membranous, pellucid, of 2 cells, 

 not bursting, with a transverse partition. Seeds numerous, 

 minute, obtuse, triangular, inserted into the central co- 

 lumn. 



Herbaceous, with opposite or alternate, simple leaves^ and 

 Siyi\\\a.ry Jlowers. 



1. P. Portula. Water Purslane. 



Petals wanting, or scarcely visible. Leaves opposite, ob- 

 ovate, stalked. 



P. Portula. Linn. Sp. PI. 47^. Willd.v. 2. 243. Fl. Br. 389. Engl. 



Bot.v.l7. t.l2\l. Curt.Lond.fasc.4.t.27. Hook. Scot. 1 1\. 



Fl. Dan. t. 64. 

 P. n. 856. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 379. 



Portula. Dill. Giss. 120. append. 133. t.7. Raii Syn.368. 

 Glaucoides palustre, portulacse folio, flore purpureo. Mich. Gen. 21. 



t.\8.f.l. 

 Glaux aquatica, folio subrotundo. Loes. Pruss. 106. t.20. 

 G. altera palustris repens subrotundo folio. Bocc. Mus. 107. t. 84. 



./. 1. Vaill.Par.80. t. \b.f.b. 



