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cloven, white, membranous scales united at their base. Flowers 

 numerous, in the axils of the upper leaves, solitary. Cal. nerve- 

 less, and, as well as the rather short peduncles, glandulose and 

 viscid. Petals ovate, red, about as long as the cal. Peduncles after 

 flowering slightly bent back. The seeds constitute the essential 

 character by which this species is distinguished from the following. 



8. A. manna ( Sea-side purple Sandiuort), steins prostrate, leaves 

 semicylindrical fleshy awnless, stipules ovate cloven, capsule 

 longer than the cal., seed compressed smooth with a broad 

 membranous pellucid border. Ligtitf. (A. rubra P.). E. B. 

 t. 958. 



HAB. Common on the sea-coast. Banks of the Clyde at Helens- 

 burgh. Fl. June, July. O (Sm.) $ (Hopk.). 



Much larger and stouter in all its parts than the last, besides the re- 

 markable difference in the seeds. It is also less branched and the 

 flowers are fewer. Do not these differences depend upon situation ? 

 14. CHERLERIA. 



1. C\\. sedoides (dwarf Cherleria). Lighlf. p.232. E.B./.1212. 



HAB. Near the summits of the Highland mountains, not unfrequent. 

 Ben Teskerney and Ben Challum in Breadalbane 5 on Baikeval in 

 Rum, Lightf. On Mal-grea and Mal-nantarmonach, between 

 Breadalbane and Glen Lyon ; and on Ben Achalader in the Braes 

 of Glenurchy, Dr. Stuart. Ben Lawers, Maugh. Fl. July, Aug. 11 , 



Stems 2 or 3 inches high, excessively tufted as in Silene acaulis, or 

 even more dense. Leaves crowded, linear-subulate, channelled 

 above, slightly ciliated and glandular at the edge. Flowers solitary, 

 terminal, on short footstalks. Cal. yellow green, membranous at 

 the edge. 



4. PENTAGYNIA. 



15. COTYLEDON. 



1. C. Umbilicus (Wall Pennywort), leaves peltate crcnate de- 

 pressed in the centre, stem spiked with the numerous racemes 

 of pendulous flowers, upper bracteas minute entire. Lighlf. 

 p. 234. E, B. /.325. 



HAB. Rocks and old buildings, but very local. Drummadoon, W. side 

 of the Isle of Arran, Craig of Ailsa and ruins of I-colm-kill, Lightf. 

 Near Campbell-town, Mr. Arnott. By the light-house of the little 

 Cumbraes on the Clyde, Dr. Brown. Common on rocks and old 

 walls along the coast from Kelly to Largs ; Arran, &c., Mr, Mar- 

 ray. FL June, July. I/ . 



Stem from 6 inches to a foot high, rounded. Whole plant succulent. 

 Leaves mostly radical. Flowers cylindrical, yellowish green. 



16. SEDUM. 



* Leaves plane. 

 1. S. Teleph'mm (Orp hie}, leaves flattish serrated, corymbs leafy, 



stern erect. Light/, p. 234. E. B. 1. 1319. 

 HAB. Borders of fields, hedges and waste places. Upon a rock on the 



right-hand side of the road going from Dumbarton to Glasgow, 



