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3valvis monoloc. polysperma. Fol. alt. — A very 

 distinct G. blended with Cf?/osia, that has acir- 

 cums. caps, or pyxidium, yet of same family. 

 Type H. glauca Raf. Celosia do. Wendland, 

 Persoon, fol. lin. lanceol. carnosis canis — South 

 Africa. 



567. LiTiiopiiiLA Svv. Sm, cal. duplex, ext. 3 

 part. int. 5part. ineq. 3 petaloideis, 2 squamosis, 

 stamj 2 lib. stylo 1, stig. capit. emarg. capsula 

 21ocul ? 2sperma ? Fol. oppositis — Of family 

 Scleranthidia ? altho' near Ortegia and Loe- 



flingia fruit not well known, on which will de- 

 pend the main affinities. 



568. Lithophila muscoides Sw. Sm. pumila, 

 fol. lin. obt. canaliculatis, fl. congestis. minute 

 plant of I. Navaza in Antilles. 



569. ATRIPLEXTA. This natural family 

 will be much reduced by separating the ano- 

 malous G. with berries or more than one seed : 

 being thus reduced to those with a single seed 

 akene or utricule, altho' with several stigmas, 

 the Genera therein placed hardly differ from 

 Polygonides, and might as well be united, the 

 habit in those last of articulate stem and vagi- 

 nate leaves being the chief difference! while 

 Urticides differs by single stigma or hypogyne 

 stamens. Uniting therefore Atriplexia and 

 Polygonidia we may divide them into 6 more 

 evident subfamilies, distinguished by the fruit 

 and proportions of stamens. Salisbury detected 

 the mistake of Jussieu who deemed them pe- 

 rigyne, while they are properly hypogyne. 



570. PoLYCNEMiDES. utriculus monospermus, 

 — G. Polycnemum, Camphorosma, Petiveria, 

 Chenolea, Kochia. 



571. Basellides. Calixbaccatus — G. Basella 



