APPENDIX. 537 



* Sea Rocket— (Ca^v/e mai-itima.) 

 Stems one foot high, with straggling branches ; leaves few, fleshy, with a few 

 distant and oblong lobes; whole plant smooth and glaucous; flowers large, 

 densely corymbose, pale lilac. Fl. summer. Annual. Hah. sands and salt- 

 marshes. (E. B. iv. 231.) 



Flix-weed — {Sisymbrium Sophia.) 

 Stem two feet high ; leaves doubly-pinnatifid, the segments short and linear; 

 flowers greenish yellow, the petals smaller than the calyx. Fl. summer. Annual. 

 (E. B. xiv. 9G3.) 



XXI.— THE WINTERGREEN FAMILY. Pyrolacem. 



Round-leaved Wintekgreen — {Pyrola rotundifolia.) 

 Style protruding, and much curved, usually at least twice as long as the capsule. 

 Plentiful in the little natural gardens among the sand-hills to the south of South- 

 port. Also about the mouth of the Pdbble. (E. B. iii. 213.) 



XXIL— THE RHUBARB FAMILY. Polygonacea. 



* Yellow Sea-dock — {Rumex maritimus.) 

 Panicle leafy and very spreading ; flowers densely clustered in globular axillary 

 whorls ; the segments of the perianth with long and fine teeth. Stems twelve to 

 eighteen inches high. Leaves narrow, lanceolate or linear. Fl. July, August. 

 Southport, but rather scarce. (E. B. xi. 725.) 



XXIV.— THE CARNATION FAMILY. Garyophyllacece. 



\ Common Bladdek-campion — {Silene inflata. Flora, p. 143.) 

 Common at Southport. 



* Sea Bladder-campion — (Silene maritima.) 

 Distinguished from the preceding by its procumbent stems, very narrow leaves, 

 and almost soUtary flowers. Fl. July, August. Southport. (E. B. xiv. 957.) 



English Catch-elt — {Silene Anglica.) 

 Stems six to twelve inches high. Flowers small, axillary, forming unilateral 

 spikes ; calyx very hairy, ten-ribbed, much contracted at the top. Petals pale red 

 or white. Fl. June, July. Annual. Common in cornfields between Southport 

 and Churchtown. (E. B. xvii. 1178.) 



f Cokn-cockle — {Agrostemma Githago. Flora, p. 143.) 

 Common and fine at Southport. 



