656 



MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 



Ir 



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7. CORDIFOLIA. 



E. 



". #*■ 





E. humifusa, ramo- 



, glabra; foliis 



sissima 



Procumbent, branch 



parvulis, oppositis, la 

 to-ovalibus, integerri- 

 mis^ basi cordatis; flo- 

 ribus axiljaribus, soli- 

 tariis. 



ing 



? 



glabrous; leaves 



small, opposite, broad- 

 oval, entire, cordate at 

 base; flowers' axillary, 

 solitary. 



Plant annual. Stem prostrate, 8 to 15 inches long, very glabrous, bran- 

 ches alternate. Leaves on petioles scarcely a line long, oval, entire, glab- 

 rous^ unequal and cordate at base, generally 3 — 4 lines long. Flowers soli- 

 tary, axillary, on pedicells about half as long as the leaves, surrounded at 

 base with incised almost feathered stipules; petalloid segments of the invo- 

 lucrum white. 



Grows in cultivated land, common apund Beaufort in dry soils. 



Flowers in the summer. 



8. PoLyGOiMFOLlA. 



Lin. 



E. humifusa, rarao- I Procumbent, branch- 



sa 



sa; 



laberrima, carno- 

 bliis oblongo-ova- 

 tis, ovalibusque, inte- 

 errimis, basi obtusis 

 interdum sub-cordatis; 

 floribus solitariis in di- 

 chotomia caulls; 

 lis siraplicibus. 



»ng> 



very 



s 



stipu- 



E, 



glabrou 



succulent;' leaves ob- 

 long-ovate and oval, 

 entire, obtuse at base, 

 sometimes slightly cor- 

 date 



m 



flowers solitary 

 the division of the 



9 



Stem; stipules simple 



Sp. p], 2. p, 900. Walt. p. 145. Pursh, 2. p. G06? Nutt- 2. p- 227. 



In many respects resembling the preceding species^ but from its habitat 

 more succulent^ its leaves also are loii^rer^ more ovate, on longer petioles, 

 more cro\rded near the summit of the branches, and less cordate, the flowers 

 on shorter peduncles, and the petaloid segments of the involucrum uncolour- 

 ed. The stipules which in the former species are many cleft^ in this are su- 

 bulate, simple, or sometimes one has a single division. . ^ , 



Grows on the drifting sands of the sea-shore, frequently covered wita san 

 excepting the exKemitios of the branches. This appears to be the real tj- 



