PENTANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Alsine. 313 



Styles sometimes 2, but mostly 3. Capsule 3-celled. Seeds 

 constantly z in the larger cells, that in the third abortive. 

 Leers* Leafits varying from egg-shaped to spear-shaped, but . 

 always pointed. Bloss. in whirls ; white. 



W'insred Bladder nut-tree* Hedges near Pontefraet. Yorkshire 



Ray.— About Ashford 



J 



TA'MARIX, Cal. with 5 divisions ; petals 5 : cap 



1 -celled, 3-valved : seeds with hairs. 



T. Flowers with 5 stamens: branches scalv : scales sittin 





alternate. 



Mi 



narbonens :—Kn'iph. 2. 



Flowers in long slender spikes, white, with a rosy tinge. 

 [In great plenty on St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, and 

 every where about the Lizard, though chiefly on the banks of 



First communicated to me by Mr. Giddy. 

 Hurst Castle, and elsewhere on the Western 

 r. Pulteney.J S. July. 



earth called hedges. 



CORRIGIO LA. Cal. 5-leaved, border membra- 



naceous, white : petals 5 : nut small, round- 

 ish, but 3-sided. 



C. Leaves oblong : flowers in a terminating bundle. littoralis 



E. hot. 668-FL dan. 33i-J. B. iii. 379- 2-//. ox. v. 29. 1, 



Flowers sometimes lateral. Cal. very like the blossom, but 

 the segments towards the base are of a rich chesnut brown. The 

 whole habit of the flowers, more particularly the seeds and the 

 pistils, resemble the Polygonums. In Portugal it is not limited 

 to the sea side, but grows in hedge banks, and in ploughed fields 

 at a distance from the sea. 



Sand Strapivort. [Found by Mr. Hudson on Slapham Sands 

 beyond Dartmouth and near the Star Point. Mr. Martyn.] 



A. June. Sept* 



ALSFNE. Cal. 5-lea\-ed : petals 5, equal : caps I- 



celled, 2-valved. 



A. Petals cloven down to the base: leaves egg-heart- me'dia, 



shaped. See Stellaria media* 





