Victorian Plants. 167 



SFERGUX.ARXA. 



802. Petals rosy-red. 



A perennial, small plant, often much beset with glandular 

 hairlets ; leaves linear-filiform ; stipules scarious ; flowers 

 in cymes ; sepals without any prominent venule ; stamens 

 five to ten ; seeds often membranously margined. 



S. r libra. 



803. Leaves very small, filiform-linear. 



An annual, small, erect plant, beset with glandular hairlets ; 

 flowers solitary, conspicuously stalked ; petals narrow, 

 pink or white ; stamens shorter than the petals ; fruit 

 small, ellipsoid. S. tubulosa. 



SCXiERANTHUS. 



804. Tube of the calyx shorter than the lobes ... ... 805 



Tube of the calyx longer than the lobes ...... 806 



805. Calyx-lobes broad-membranous. 



A laxly tufted, perennial, desert-plant ; leaves broadish- 

 trigonous-linear, much pointed ; flowers in sessile clusters ; 

 calyx deeply five-cleft, its lobes from lanceolar- to 

 orbicular-ovate and pointed ; stamens five, elongated ; 

 fruit only at its base adnate. S. pimgens. 



Calyx-lobes narrow-membranous. 



A subalpine, perennial, small plant ; leaves very narrow ; 

 flowers in sessile clusters ; calyx five-cleft to rather beyond 

 the middle, its lobes lanceolar- or deltoid-ovate ; stamens 

 two, rather abbreviated ; fruit only at its base adnate. 



S. diander. 



806. Flowers two at the summit of solitary stalks. 



An alpine and subalpine plant, densely tufted and much 

 depressed ; leaves acicular-linear ; flowers minute ; calyx 

 four-cleft to less than the middle; stamen one; fruit 

 enclosed, but only at its base adnate. S. bi.fl.onis. 



Flowers single on solitary stalks. 



A densely tufted and much depressed alpine plant ; leaves 

 acicular-linear; flowers minute; calyx five-cleft to less 

 than the middle ; stamen one ; fruit enclosed, but only 

 at its base adnate. Figure 33. S. inniarioides. 



