LINACK.E. 



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but sometimes membranaceous and indehiscent, or drupaceous 

 with as many stones as tliere are carpels, or by abortion only one. 

 Seeds 2 or 1 in each coccum or stone, generally obovate, com- 

 pressed, with a tough membranous testa. Albumen fleshy, rarely 

 none. Embryo generally straight, with the cotyledons commonly 

 oval or elliptical, and the radicle superior. 



The British species all belong to the tribe Eulineae, which are 

 herbs or undershrubs with contorted fugaceous petals, perfect 

 stamens as many as the petals, capsule dehiscing septicidally, 

 or rarely 1-seeded and sub- indehiscent. 



GUN US I.—R A D I O L A. Gmel. 



Sepals 4, 3-toothed, persistent. Petals 4, minute, caducous. 

 Stamens 4, with very minute teeth between them. Filaments 

 nearly free. Styles 4. Capsule splitting into 4 valves ; each valve 

 imperfectly 2-celled and 2-seeded, and splitting down the middle. 



This genus consists of an extremely minute annual plant with 

 opposite leaves and dichotomously or trichotomously branched 

 stems terminating in corymbose cymes of very numerous small 

 sub-globular flowers. 



This genus was named by Dillenins from radiolus, a ray, because the cells of the 

 ripe capsule diverge like the rays of a little wheel. 



SPECIES I— RADIOLA MILLEGRANA. Sm. 



Plate CCLXXXVIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Hyp. Tab. CCCXXV. Fig. 5152. 



Radiola linoides, Gmel. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. ^. 141. Gr, & Godr. 



Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 28-t. 

 Liuum Radiola, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 402. 



The only known species. 



On damp heaths and commons, especially on sandy and 



gravelly soils. Rather local, but generally distributed throughout 



the kingdom. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



A much branched slender plant, 1 to 2 inches high. Stems 

 erect, thread-like, dichotomously branched throughout, frequently 

 with opposite branches below the forks. Leaves entire, abovit 

 \ inch long, ovate, acute, sessile, slightly succulent, 3- to 5-nerved 

 when dry. Elowers very numerous, placed in the forks of the 



