PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Glaux. 337 



In marshy boggy ground, in Cornwall and Devonshire. 



In Devonshire not uncommon. With. About Pensans. F. Borone. 



Perennial. July. 



Root creeping. Herb smooth, branched, procumbent. Leaves 

 small, ovate, acute, or sometimes spatulate, scarcely stalked, 

 rather fleshy. Stipulas intrafoliaceous, small, white, jagged. 

 Fl. small, aggregate, axillary, white or reddish. Calyx-leaves 

 abrupt, with long, twisted, terminal bristles ; concave at the 

 inner side. Scales between the stamens lanceolate, reddish, 

 pointed, alternate with the calyx, resembling petals. Filam. 

 very short. Stigma notched. Caps, of 5 distinct valves. 



125. GLAUX. Sea-milkwort. 



Linn.GenM4. Juss.333. Fl.Br.268. Tourn.t.60. Lam. 1 141. 



Nat. Ord. Catycanthemce. Linn. 17. Salicarice. Juss. 91. 



Supposed by recent authors, see Hook. Scot. 212, to be 

 allied to Samolus, p. 323, and therefore to the Primulacete, 

 see p. 269 ; but their characters and habits are essentially 

 different. 



Col, inferior, of 1 leaf, coloured, bell-shaped, in 5 deep, 

 spreading, obtuse, recurved segments, permanent. Cor. 

 none. Filam. awl-shaped, erect, not longer than the 

 calyx. Anth. roundish. Germ, superior, ovate. Style 

 cylindrical, as long as the stamens. Stigma capitate. 

 Caps, globose, pointed, of 1 cell and 5 valves. Seeds 5, 

 roundish, attached to a very large, globular, central, 

 pitted receptacle. 



Herbaceous. Leaves opposite, simple, undivided. Fl. axillary. 



In its calyx this genus is akin to Polygonum, in its fruit to 

 Jussieu's LysimachicE ; but cannot well be referred to any 

 natural order yet defined. 



1. G. maritima. Common Sea-milkwort, Black 



Saltwort. 

 G.maritima. Linn. Sp. PL 301. Willd. v. 1. 1210. JF7.Br.268. 



Engl.Bot.v.\.t.\3. Hook.Scot.82. Raii Syn. 285. Fl. Dan. 



t. 548. Ehrh. Phyt. 83. 

 Polygonum maritimum longius radicatnm nostras. Raii Syn. ed. 2. 



69. ed. 3. 161. Pluk. Phyt. t.53.f.3. 

 Newton's Knotgrass. Pet. H. Brit. t. 10./. 6. 

 Alsine bifolia, fructu Coriandri, radice geniculate Lees. Fruss. 



13. t.3. 

 Herniaria glabra /S. Huds. 108. 

 In muddy salt-marshes abundantly. 



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