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taining a single ovule ; stigmas 3, sessile. Fruit ovoid-trigonous, 

 bony, indehiscent, enveloped in the connivent calyx segments, which 

 remain unaltered. Seed solitary. 



Small herbs or undershrubs witli the leaves alternate, oblong or 

 hnear, fleshy, glaucous, furnished with scarious stipules. Flowers small, 

 crowded in axillary glomerules arranged in racemes, spikes, or corymbs 

 at the extremity of the stem and branches. 



The name of this genus of plants comes from the word Coirir/ia, a thong of leather, 

 to which the leaves of the species may have a fancied resemblance. 



SPECIES I.-C ORRIGIOLA LITTORALIS. Lmn. 



Plate MCLXX. 

 BiUof, ¥1 Gall, ct Germ. Exsicc. No. 19. 



Annual. Leaves oblanceolate-strapshaped. Flowers in small cymes 

 at the extremity of the stems, and of short leafy lateral branches. 



On sandy shores about Helston, Cornwall; and on Slapton Sands 

 and near Start Point, Devon. 



England. Amiual. Late Summ.er, Autumn. 



Stems numerous from the crown of the root, decumbent, 3 to 9 inches 

 long, with numerous alternate leaves. Leaves slightly flesh}', -'- to 

 1 inch long, attenuated towards the base, but not distinctly stalked, 

 each one with a pair of large scarious half sagittate stipules. Flowers 

 about the size of the mignonette seed, shortly stalked, m cymose clusters 

 confined to the apex of the stem, and of the branches immediately 

 beneath it. Sepals ovate, obtuse, green or purplish, with broad pure 

 white scarious margins. Petals white, as long as the calyx. Capsule 

 enveloped in the persistent calyx, brown, globular-ovoid, marked with 

 3 longitudinal ribs. Plant glabrous, glaucous. 



Sand Strapwort. 

 German, tjemeiner Strandling. 



GENUS 11. —B. ERNIARIA. Toumef. 



Calyx herbaceous, persistent, 5-partite ; segments slightly concave, 

 ovate, obtuse, or subacute, with pellucid scarious margins. Petals ( ?) 5, 

 perigynous, resembling barren filaments. Stamens 5, or fewer by 

 abortion. Ovary 1-cellcd, containing a single ovule; stigmas 2, 

 subsessile. Fruit ovoid, membranous, indehiscent, enveloped in the 

 connivent calyx segments, which remain unaltered. Seed solitary. 



Small herbs or luidcrshrubs, with the leaves opposite, glabrous or 

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