222 AIZOACEAE 
small, calyx of 5 sepals, petals absent. Fruit a capsule opening 
by a circular transverse line or by lines up and down. 
Capsule opening by a transverse line . . . Sesuvium 
Capsule opening by a longitudinal line . . . Mollugo 
1. SESUVIUM, L. 
Prostrate fleshy herb at sea side with opposite spatula-shaped leaves, 
broadest at apex, which is rounded and sometimes slightly indented. 
Flowers without flower stems, springing at the leaf axils, small, pink or 
purple; stamens 5; capsule 3 to 5 celled with many seeds. The capsule 
opens by a circular line by which the cap separates from the cup-like 
seed basket, , ; 
S. maritimum, (Walt.) BSP. (Fig. 5, pl. 38.) Sea PuRSLANE. 
Growing in sands by the sea shore. Long Island and southward. 
2. MOLLUGO, L. 
Herb, profusely branching with leaves inserted in whorls, of about 5 
each, spatula-shaped, outer third broadest. Stipules absent. Flowers 
growing in circles at the leaf whorls, of 5 sepals, white, small. A pros- 
trate weed in cultivated grounds and waste places. 
M. verticillata, L. (Fig. 3, pl. 37.) Carper Weep. Inpran CHIcK- 
WEED. Prostrate, branching profusely, forming a mat. Flower pedicels 
several at the axils of the leaves, each bearing a single white flower. 
Roadsides and cultivated grounds. 
