GENERA AND SPECIES. 
Stellaria. 
Petals white, perennial herbs, pedicels axillary usually 
longer than the leaves. 
Much branched, decumbent ; leaves rigid, pungent- 
pointed, linear-lanceolate, often recurved ... us 
Branches usually slender, erect ; leaves linear, slen- 
der ; or rarely densely tufted et or 
Petals none; a slender, glabrous, branching annual ; 
leaves mostly lanceolate; pedicels axillary shorter 
or longer than the calyx... 
Drymaria. 
A glabrous dichotomously branched annual ; leaves chiefly 
crowded at the base, narrow-linear ; pedicels slender 
about § inch long, axillary ; capsule cylindrical 
Sagina. 
A small glabrous annual, somewhat tufted with ascend- 
ing branches ; pedicels erect longer than the leaves, 
petals minute or wanting; leaves small, subulate, 
joined by a scarious sheath 
Colobanthus. 
A small densely tufted, stemless perennial; leaves linear- 
subulate, sometimes very rigid. Peduncles 1-flowered 
shorter or longer than the leaves 
Spergularia. 
A small low spreading annual beset with short viscid 
hairs; leaves narrow-linear; flowers pink on short 
pedicels in forked cymes; capsule about as long as 
calyx ; seeds not winged ; 
A glabrous perennial, with long ascending branches, 
flowers large white; capsule very large, twice the 
length of the calyx ; seeds surrounded by a broad 
scarious wing 
Polyearpon. 
A glabrous prostrate annual; leaves obovate or oblong, 
clustered in fours; flowers very small, numerous in 
loose terminal cymes 
Polyearpaea. 
A glabrous annual, stems erect or decumbent from a 
rosette of oblong leaves; petals united below with 
the stamens ; flowers in terminal cymes 
Branches erect slender, minutely pubescent ; 
narrow-linear ; petals quite free : 
leaves 
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pungens 
glauca 
multiflora 
filiformis 
apetala 
Billardieri 
rubra 
marina 
tetraphyllum 
synandra 
Indica 
