MO DECANDRIA TRlGYNlA. 



Annual. Stem 3 — 5 inches long, procumbent and assurgent, s 

 culent, forming small tufts, sometimes solitary. Leaves about aS 

 inch long. Stipules 1 — 2 lines long, with the summit sometimes 

 lacerate. Flowers axillary, solitary, on short peduncles. Leaves of 

 the calyx lanceolate, with the margins membranaceous. Petals lau- 

 ceolate, about as long as the calyx, of a pale flesh colour. Stamens 

 half as long as the corolla. Styles very short. Stigmas glandnhv^ 

 recurved 



This singular plant varies much in the number of its stamens. 

 IMichaux describes the Canadian variety as pentandrous. 1 have 



found it in Carolina uniformly triandrous; in Florida Dr. BaltUviB 

 met with it diandrous. 



Grows in brackish marshes, Rantowles. 



Flowers April — May. 



4. Glabra. Mich. 



A. foliis subulato-li- [ Leaves subulate linear, 

 aearibus, patulis ; petlun- expanding ; peduncles l 

 culis unifloris, axillaribus, [ flowered, axillary, long} 



elongatis ; petaiis eniar- 

 ginatis, calyce multo ion- 

 gioribus. E. 



petuls emarginate, mucli 

 longer than the calyx* 



Mich, 1. p. 274. Pursh, 1. p. 318. 

 Stellaria uniflora, Walt. p. 141. 



Stems erect, slender, glabrous, numerous from one root Le-fives 

 Subulate, slightly connate, much shorter than the internodes. Pedun- 

 cles as long as the Internodes. erect. Leaves of the persistent caly:t 

 rather obtuse. Petals twice or thrice as long as the calyx, distinctly 

 Cmargmate, white. Stamens a little longer tiian tiie calyx. 



Grows m the swamps of the Santee riVer, from Murray's to Nel- 

 son's Ferry. Dr. Macbride. 



Flowers May. 



5. Squarrosa. Mich 

 A foliis imis squarroso- 

 inibricatis, canaliculatis. 



Lower leaves squarrose 



lled,gla- 



glabris ; caule nudiuscu- brous ; stem naked ; pan 

 lo; paniculis paucifloris ; * icles few flowered ; petali 

 petaiis calyce obtuso mui- j much larger than theob 



to rnajoribus. Mich. i. tuse caiyj^, 



p. S73 



Pursh, 1. p. 318. 

 'A. CftroUniana, W 





