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3. CoRRfGiOLA (Strapwort). — Prostrate, glabrous plants, with 

 scattered leaves with membranous stipules ; flowers minute ; sepals 



CORRicfoLA littorAlis {Sand Straj>wor{). 



5, green, blunt, united at the base, with membranous margins; 



petals 5, as long as the sepals, white ; 

 stamens 5, stigmas 3, sessile. (Name 

 a diminutive from the Latin corrigia, 

 a strap, from the shape of the 

 leaves.) 



I. C. littordlis (Sand Strapwort). — 

 A small but pretty plant with slen- 

 der, spreading sie^ns^ which lie quite 

 prostrate ; linear-lanceolate, glau- 

 cous leaves ; and crowded, terminal 

 cymes of small, white flowers. — 

 Sandy shores. Start Bay, Devon, 

 and Loe Pool, near Helston, Corn- 

 wall ; very rare. — Fl. July — Octo- 

 ber. Annual. 



4. ScLERANTHUS (Knawcl). — 

 Small, inconspicuous weeds, with 

 wiry, much-branched stems; oppo- 

 site, connate, awl-shaped leaves 

 without stipules ; and small, green 

 flowers in axillary and terminal 

 fascicles ; perianth tubular, 4 — 5- 



cleft, with membranous margins to its segments; stamens i — 10 ; 



ovary superior, i-chambered, i-ovuled ; stigmas 2 — 4 ; fruit 



sclerAnthus Annuus 

 (Annual Knawel). 



