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Ic. — Spcrgula arvcnsis ci Spergula pcniandra Engl. bot. 22. tab. i535. et i536. 



Spcrgula arvcnsis Fl. clan. tab. io33. Spergula arvcnsis ct vulgaris Reich. 



Pl. crit. Cent. 6. ic. 704. yoS. 

 Spcrgula Dod. Pcmpt. p. 537. ic. •♦■ Loc. Obs. p. ^67. ic. •♦• ct Icon. tab. 8o3. 



ic. 2. •♦• ( calicis laciniac nimis cxiguae brevesque ). 

 Spergula J. Bauh. Ilist. 3. p. 722. ic. 2. a Ciiabr. Sciagr. p. 54<> ic. 3. a 



/3. marginata, scminibus ala membranacca, ampla cinciis. 



Spergula pcntanclra Linn. Sp. p. 63o. Willd. Sp. 2. p. 818. Sering. ! in DC 



Prod. 1. p. 394. 



Siisth. et Sm. Fl. graec. Prod. 1. p. 3 17. Ciiaub. et Bory Exped. Mor. p. i3i. 



Tenor. Fl. neap. Svll. p. 223. ct Fl. nap. 4- P- 2 4°- DO Fl. fr. 4- p- 773- 



Lois. Fl. gall. 1. p. 3a5. 



Ic. — Alsinc Spergula annua , semine foliaceo, nigro, circulo mcmbranacco, 



albo, cincto. Moris. Hist. 2. p. 55 1. scct. 5. tab. 23. ic. i3. ct i4- n.° 2. 



Radix tcreti-fusiformis , fibras laterales emittens. Catiles ex eaclem 



radice saepe plures, simplices ramosive, erecti, ascendentes vel ra- 



rius prostrati, ad nodos incrassati, longitudine palmares, pedales. 



Folia lineari-sttbulata , apice callosa, obtusa vel acutiuscula, circa 



nodos verticillata fasciculatave, 8-io-i5 et ultra, inaequalia, inter- 



nodiis multo breviora, basi stipttlata. Panicula di-trichotoma , ter- 



minalis, nuda, ramis pedunculisque basi bracteatis; bracteis ovato- 



acutis, brevibtts, scariosis, supremis interdum coloratis. Pedunculi 



filiformes, uniflori, frttctiferi saepe divaricati refractive. Sepala el- 



liptica, acutiusctila, margine albo-membranacea. Petala ovato-elliptica, 



alba, calice vix longiora. Stamina quinque-decem, in (3 saepe quin- 



que. Capsula laevis, ovata, quinquevalvis. Semina nigra, orbiculata, 



in a utrinque convexa, oculo armato, punctis impressis obsita, modo 



laevia, modo papilloso-scabra, immarginata sett membrana brcvis- 



sima, alba aut nigra, margine cincta, in /3 compressiora, laevia 



punctisque impressis vix aliquot notata, ala ad marginem mcmbra- 



nacea, ampla circumdata. 



Planta in a saepe pallide virens pilisque patulis brevibtts, apice 



glanduliferis praedita, caulibus ex eadem radice duobus, quindecim, 



bi-triuncialibus, pedalibus et paullo ultra: in (3 viridis, glalira aut 



glabriuscula apud uos, caulibus ex eadem radicc duobus, octo, bi- 



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