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in Arctic Amcrici. in driMl liritain it occurs on most parts of ilic 

 coast, but is absent from Masl Sussex. Moiinionth, Flint, Westmorland. 

 Mid Ebudes. 



The Sea Purslane is a s/f/c (///a iioii, as ii were, of the tlora that one 

 meets with on most sea-coasts. It i^rows on e\(,i\' sandy beach, bciii^ 

 a sand plant like the majority of the species of this j^roiip (hence the 

 generic name), and is a salt-lover and one of the strand plants, accom- 



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panied usually by such plants as Sea Rocket, Saltwort, Sea Milkwort, 

 Sand Sedge, Marram Grass, and other plants. 



It has a creeping habit, the so-called roots being really rhizomes. 

 The stem is prostrate, then a.scending, fleshy, forked, and the branches 

 are suberect. The leaves are lance-shaped, stalkless, arranged in 

 opposite rows, egg-shaped, acute, bent backwards, close, and single- 

 nerved, with the margins distinct. 1 he whoK; ])lani is sniootli. sliin\. 

 and dark green, like a Stonecrop or Sea Milkwort. 



The flowers are white, solitary, axillary, the petals are inversely 

 egg-shaped, the sepals blunt, single-veined, and shorter than the petals 

 in the male, longer in the female flowers. The long and short stamens 



