340 BECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Spergula. 



S. saginoides. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t.35, Ehrh. Herb. 7. 



Sagina procumbens /3. Linn. Sp. PI. 185. Willd. v. 1.719. 



Saxifraga graminea pusilla, foliis brevioribus, crassioribus, et suc- 

 culentioribus. Raii Syn. 345. 



On barren sandy heaths. 



Perennial. Julij, August. 



Root, size and habit much agreeing with the last ; but the leaves 

 are fringed with glandular, or slightly viscid, hairs, and termi- 

 nate each in a very conspicuous hair-like point, not sufficiently 

 expressed in Engl. Bot. Fl. but half the size of the saginoides, 

 and more erect. Cat. strongly keeled, at least when in fruit. 

 Pet. white, obovate, as long as the calyx, or nearly so. Stam. 

 more frequently 5 than 10. Caps, of 5 lanceolate, valves, a little 

 longer than the calyx. Seeds kidney-shaped, compressed, pale 

 brown, encircled with a black line^ but without any dilated 

 margin. 



I have never found the marginal hairs wanting on the leaves, though 

 they are commonly very minute. The Jlower-stalks are longer 

 in proportion to l\\e flowers than in the preceding, always more 

 or less glandular and viscid^ and iht Jlowers are almost perfectly 

 erect. 



