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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA 



Annual. Stem divaricate, somewhat prostrate, angled, glabrous. (Lower 

 leaves hastate slightly toothed, Willd.) upper lanceolate, narrow, entire, gla- 

 brous, attenuated at base. Floicers in compact clusters axillary and termmal. 

 Calyx of the fruit deltoid, hastate, sometimes denticulate, the back strongly 



veined but not crested. r-i i 



Found though rarely near the margin of salt water around Charleston, 

 perhaps an exotic. I have never seen the lower leaves hastate, but the ear- 

 ly leaves of plants frequently decay before the floWers are expanded. - 

 Flowers June — July. 



3. Laciniata. 



A. caule erecto, her- 

 baceo. foliis triangula- 

 ribus profunde denta- 

 tis, subtus albidis; friic- 

 tus calycibus rhorabeis, 

 trine rviis, denliculatis. 



Stem ere^t, herba- 

 ceous; leaves triangu- 



deeply 



toothed, 



I 



lar, 



whitish underneath; ca- 

 lyx of the fruit rhom- 



boidal, 

 toothed. 



three-nerved, 



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Sp. pi. 4. p. 963. Walt. p. 252. Pursfi, 1. p. 199- Nult. 1. p- 198 



sraar 



Stem erect, 



terete, naked, virgate. Leaves, except the very lowest, alternate, deitoia, 

 toothed, silvered over with small plates or scales. Terminal spikes her- 

 maphrodite with the anthers light red. Female florets axillary, in pairs. 

 Calyx of the fruit compressed, fiVe toothed, the intermediate OM the largest, 

 tin. Leaves when growing spontaneously almost snow white underneatn, 

 when cultivated pale white. Will. 



„ ^ „ „.ns of salt or brackish 



appears to have seen this speciesj I have not met with it. 

 Flowers June — August. 



Walter 



4. Arenaria. Nuttall. 



J* 



A. caule herbaceo, Stem herbaceous, ex- 

 patente; foliis subses- panding; leaves nearly 



oblong ovate 



silibus oblongo-ovatis, sessile 



integerrimis, argenla- | entire 



tis; 



muricatis, dentatis, re- 1 toothed, retuse. 



tusis. 



? 



silvery; calyx 

 fructus calycibus ! of the fruit muricate, 



Nutt. 1. p. 198. 



A. Glauca. Walt. p. 252 



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