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DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Arenaria. 



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Pastures on the sea-coast. Huds. — With A. marina on Shell. 



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coast in the Isle of Sheppey. Ray. A. June — Sept. 



It is not quite clear that this plant of Ray and Hudson is the 



real A. media of Linn. It may be only a var. of the A. marina* 



A. Leaves awl-shaped: stems panicled: calyx taper- ver'na* 



pointed, scored. 



E. hot. 512. J acq. austr. 404-P<f/. 5$. 4-Herm. par. 12. 



Differs from A. saxatilis in its stems being scarcely a hand's 



breadth high, and beset with scattered hairs ; fruit-stalks hairy. 

 Linn. 



Mountain Sandwort. Mountainous situations about Settle, 

 Kendal, Holywell, and Llanberris. [Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. 

 St. — Matlock, Derbyshire, and in the northern counties. Mr* 

 Woodward. — Road side between Holywell and St. Asaph. Mr. 

 Wood. Blackford and Braid Hills, and on Craig Lockart, all 

 near Edinburgh. Mr. Brown. Snowdon, and Holywell. 

 Mr. Griffith.] P. May~Aug. 



A, Leaves awl -shaped : stems panicled: capsules upright: tenuifo'lia 



petals shorter than the calyx, spear-shaped. 



Dlch. b. s.-E. lot. 2\S~Va!lL 3. l~FI. dan. $9>$-Seguier. 

 i. 6. 2-J. B. iii. 364.. 3~Pet. £$. 3. 



Leaves awl-shaped, connected at the base. Calyx leaves 

 greatly tapering, or rather awned, painted underneath with two 

 green lines. Petals broad-spear-shaped, half as short again as the 

 calyx. Limn. Flowers white, only one upon a fruit-stalk, but 

 these so numerous as to resemble a panicle. E. bot. The petals 

 being shorter than the calyx, distinguishes this from the pre- 

 ceding, and from the two subsequent species. It is also much 

 taller and much more branched than any of them, often attaining 

 the height of 8 or 9 inches. 



Fine-leaved Sandwort. Sandy meadows and pastures. Corn- 

 fields on the borders of Triplow Heath ; Gogmagog Hills, Cam- 



bridgeshire. Near Deptford ; Cornbury Quarry, 

 Oxfordshire. On a wall in Battersea. 

 Mr. Crowe. — Near Bury. 



Charlhury, 



[Near Cley, Norfolk. 

 Mr. Woodward. — Malvern Hill, 





Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard.] 



A. June, July. 



A. Leaves awl-shaped, stiff and sharp : stems upright : cups juniperi'na, 



scored : capsules oblong. 



Ger.fl. prov. 15. !• 



Stem 5 or 6 inches high, stiff and straight, smooth : leaves 

 awl.shaped, not easily bending, straight, sharp-pointed at the 

 end, and thorny ; /lowers in a bunch, caljx oblong, acute, with 



