TRIANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Montia. 175 



Stems succulent, trailing, crooked ; white or tinged with pink. 

 Leaves rather fleshy, egg-shaped, opposite; 2 at each joint of the 

 stem. Flowers on long or short crooked fruit-stalks rising from 

 the bosom of the leaves. Bloss. white. Seeds black, shining. 



Small Water Chick-weed, or Purslane, Water Blinks. Springs 

 and watery lanes. Sometimes in wet ploughed lands. Wet 

 heaths in Norfolk, frequent. Mr. Woodward. [Hockley Pool 

 Grate, near Birmingham. Marazion Marsh in Cornwall, where 



it grows as large as the figure of Micheli.] A. May, 



TILLiE'A. Calyx with 3 or 4 divisions : petals 3 



or 4, equal : caps. 3 or 4-seeded. 



T. Trailing: flowers 3 -cleft. musco'sa. 



E. hot. 1 16-Rose 2. 2~Mich. 20. 



Stems at first nearly upright, generally red. Rose. Parts of 

 fructification never more than 3. Leaves in pairs, fleshy. Floral 

 leaves shaped like the other leaves, but smaller. Stalks consider- 

 ably longer after flowering. Mr. Rose's description very good. 

 Mr. Woodward. 



Mossy Red-shanks. [Dry heaths, Norfolk and Suffolk. Mr. 

 Woodward.] n P. May, June. 



umbella'tura* 



HOLO'STEUM. Calyx 5 leaves : petals 5 : caps A- 

 , celled, nearly cylindrical, opening at the top. 



H. Flowers in umbels. 



Dicks, h. s.-E. bit. 27-7. B. iii. 36l. h-Rose 2. 4-G*r. em. 

 595. l6-Park. 133S. ti-H. ox. v. 22. 40'. 



Whole plant smooth. Stem above bare of leaves. Fruit ~ 

 stalks terminating, mostly hanging down, of various lengths, 

 each with 1 flower, Mr. Woodward. Leaves egg-shaped, but 

 pointed. Petals pale, reddish ; toothed at the end, but not deeply 

 divided as in the Cerastiums. Stamens 3, but sometimes more. 



Cerastium umbellatum. Huds. Umbelliferous Mouse -ear. Old 



walls, banks, and sandy corn fields about Norwich, where it was 



first discovered and examined by Mr. J. Pichford. Rose. Mr, 



Woodward. — Found about Bury, in Suffolk, by Mr. Cullum. * 



A. April, May* 



POLYCAR'PON. Calyx 5 leaves : petals 5, small, 



egg-shaped: caps, l-celled, 3-valved. 



P. Stem branched, trailing: leaves in fours, inversely tetraphyl'- 



egg-shaped. 



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