38 PORTULACACEAE. [Sagina. 
margin. res Lineman about twice as long as the calyx. Sepals 5, 
lanceolate, 21), Petals as ane or shorter, deeply bifid. Capsule 
nearly twice as een as the cal — C. viscosum, herb. Linn. 
Pastures and open woods of E. and W. Maui! A common weed of Europe. 
5. SAGINA, L. 
Sepals 4 or 5. Petals as many, entire, often obsolete or none. Stamens 
as many as petals or twice as many. Styles 4 or 5. Capsule 1-celled, 
splitting to the base into 4 or 5 yalves. Seeds numerous, reniform, 
generally smooth. — es matted herbs, with subulate leaves and small 
flowers. No stip 
A small genus, aes to the temperate and frigid zones of the northern hemisphere. 
71.8. subulata, Wimm. — Koch, Synops. Fl. xan — Stems, nodose, 
glabrate. Leaves linear and awned, clasping, 1-nerved, 4—6” lon 
Flowers single in the axils of the upper leaves. Pedicele erect, 6—9“ 
long, glandular-hispid like the sepals, which are ovate, obtuse, 1 /s “ long. 
Petals 5, shorter, hyaline. Stamens 10, a little longer than the sepals. 
Valves of the capsule 5, opposite the Hepale: Seeds minutely dotted, not 
ined 
gined. 
Pastures of Ulupalakua! Maui. A native of Europe. 
6. SPERGULA, L. 
Sepals 5. Petals 5, entire. Stamens 10, rarely 5. Styles 5. Capsule 
1-celled, 5-valved, the valves opposite the sepals. Seeds laterally com- 
pressed, margined or winged. Embryo annular. — Annual weeds. Leaves 
subulate, apparently whorled by short many-leaved axillary shoots. 
Stipules small, scarious. Flowers in terminal c cymes, 
Geographical range of Sagina. 
7 1.8. arvensis, L.— DC. Prod. I, 394. — Leaves 1—2' long, channelled 
on the under side. Flowers white. Sepals puberulous, 11/2“. Petals as 
long. Stamens 10, shorter. Seeds globose-lenticular, rough, with a narrow 
sharp margin 
Kauai! Waimea. A European weed, naturalized in the United States. 
Orper X. PORTULACACEAE. 
pH ae 2 or rarely 3, free, or connate with the base of the ovary, 
imbricate. Petals 4 or 5, ited more, free, or connate at the base, 
sibs hypogynous or rarely perigynous. Sacto ts as many as petals, 
or towers opposite to them and adnate, or indefinite and hypogynous. 
ead l-celled, with a free central placenta; style simple, with 3—8 branches, 
these stigmatose along the inner side. Capsule splitting into as many 
valves as there are styles, or opening transversely-circumscissile. Seeds 
