260 DICOTYLEDONS. — ILLECEBRiE. SvieV mithus . 



Valve<; bearing the septa in their middle. Embryo straight, 



surrounded by a small portion of albumen. 

 h^crhi with opposite or alternate leaves. Flowers axillary, often 



in a whorled spike. Mirb. 



1. LYTHRUM. 

 Cal. cylindrical, with 12 teeth, alternately smaller. Slam. 12, 



in two rows. Capsule oblong. 

 1. L. Snlicaria, leaves opposite cordato-lanceolate, flowers spiked 



with 12 stam. p. 147. — Marshy places. 

 2. PEPLIS. 

 Cal. campanulate, the teeth alternately reflexed. Slam. 6, short. 

 ] . P. Porlula, flowers axillary solitary, leaves obovate. p. 111. 



— Marshes. 



Order XLV. ILLECEBRE^. Br. 



{Paronychice Aug. Juss.) 



Cal. of one leaf, 5 -parted or nearly so. Pel. 5 inserted into the 

 cal., often resembling scales or barren filaments, sometimes 

 wanting. Slam, definite, rarely more or less than 5, distinct. 

 Anlhers round. Slyle \ and Stigma simple or divided ; or 

 styles and Stigmas several. Fruil capsular, sometimes 1 -seeded, 

 closed or opening at the top, sometimes 1 -celled, many-celled, 

 with many valves at the top. Seeds in the monospermous ge- 

 nera often suspended by a chord originating in the base of the 

 capsule ; in those with many seeds placed on a central, little 

 elevated placenta. Embryo mostly curved and subcylindrical, 

 placed on the outside of a farinaceous albumen, with a radicle 

 ascending and pointing towards the hilum j in a few scarcely 

 curved, with an inferior radicle. 



Herbs or Under shrubs, with opposite branches. Z.eai'e5 sometimes 

 opposite with stipules and stalks; sometimes connate and ses- 

 sile without stipules. Flowers terminal or axillary, naked or 

 with scarious bracteze. Juss. 



l.SCLERANTHUS. 



Cal. tubular, contracted at the neck, above 5-cleft. Pet. 0. Slam. 

 mostly 10 placed in the top of the calyx. Styles and Stigmas 2. 

 Capsule 1 -seeded. 



1. S. annuus, " cal. of the fruit spreading acute, stems patent." 

 p. 133. — Cornfields. 



2. S. perennisy " cal. of the fruit closed obtuse, stems procum- 

 bent." p. 133. — Sandy places. 



Order XLVI. ROSACE.E. Juss. 

 Cal. superior or inferior, divided. Cor, polypetalous, sometime* 



