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CARYOPHYLLEjE. XXVI. HOLOSTEUM. XXVII. SPERGULA. 



stipulate ; racemes leafy, rather secund ; sepals lanceolate, 

 obtuse, and glandular-pilose ; petals ovate; stamens 3-4. O'H. 

 Native of Egypt. Flowers rose-coloured. 



Spurry-like Holosteum. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1829. PI. 

 procumbent. 



3 H. MUCRONA'TCM (Moc. et Sesse. pi. mex. ined. icon, in 

 D. C. prod. 1. p. 393.) plant pubescent; stems procumbent; 

 leaves cordate; peduncles 3-flowered. Q. F. Native of 

 Mexico. Perhaps a variety of Drymdria cordata. Petals white. 



Mucronate Holosteum. Fl. May, Sept. PI. trailing, -| foot. 



4 H. SUCCULE'NTUM (Lin. amoen. 3. p. 21.) leaves elliptical, 

 fleshy, glabrous ; petals somewhat trifid, smaller than the calyx. 

 Q. H. Native of the states of New York and Carolina. 

 Polycarpon uniflorum, Walt. fl. carol, p. 83. This is a very 

 doubtful plant according to Pursh, he having never been able 

 to find it either in the state of New York nor Carolina. Flowers 

 white. 



Succulent Holosteum. PI. trailing ? 



5 H. HIRSU'TUM (Lin. amcen. 3. p. 21.) leaves orbicular, 

 hairy ; flowers sessile ? white. O S. Native of Malabar. 



Hairy Holosteum. PI. trailing. 



6 H. UMBELLA'TUM (Lin. spec. 130.) radical leaves elliptical, 

 glaucous, glabrous ; cauline ones larger, ovate ; flowers umbel- 

 late ; common peduncles clammy-pubescent ; pedicels deflexed 

 after flowering. Q. H. Native of many parts of Europe on 

 old walls and in sandy fields. In England on several walls and 

 roofs of houses about Norwich, about Bury, also on the walls of 

 Chelsea garden. Smith, engl. bot. t. 27. Fl. dan. 1204. 

 Lam. ill. t. 51. f. 1. Cerastium umbellatum, Huds. 201. Flowers 

 white, sometimes tinged with red. 



Umbellate-fiovrereil Jagg-chickweed. Fl. April, May. Engl. 



PI. 



to i foot. 



Cult, Holosteum diandrum, mucronatum, and hirsutum, re- 

 quire to be sown in pots and placed in a hot-bed in any kind of 

 soil, where they may remain. H. succulentum and umbellatum 

 may be sown on rock-work. None of the species are worth 

 cultivating except in botanical gardens. 



XXVII. SPE'RGULA (from spargo, to scatter ; because it 

 scatters its seed abroad, to the great profit of the farmer in 

 Holland. See Spergularia arvensis.). Lin. gen. no. 798. Gaert. 

 fruct. t. 130. f. 4. D. C. prod. 1. p. 394. 



LIN. SYST. Decdndria, Pentagynia. Calyx 5-parted. Petals 

 5, entire. Stamens 5 and 10. Styles 5. Capsules 1-celled, 

 6-valved, 5-valved according to Smith, many-seeded. Leaves 

 exstipulate. 



1 S. NODOSA (Lin. spec. 630.) leaves opposite, awl-shaped, 

 smooth, bluntish; lower ones broad, sheathing, upper ones 

 clustered ; stems tufted, almost simple, few-flowered ; petals 

 twice as long as the calyx : seeds somewhat reniform, rough. 

 I/ . H. Native of many parts of Europe in marshy places. 

 In Canada and on the shores of the Arctic sea. In Britain in 

 moist sandy or turfy ground. Smith, engl. bot. t. 694. Curt. 

 lond. fasc. 4. t. 34. Fl. dan. t. 96. Stems spreading or pros- 

 trate. Flowers white. 



Var. ft, brevifolia (Pers. ench. 1. p. 522. Poir. diet. 7. p. 

 305.) stem very simple ; clusters of leaves approximate ; cauline 

 leaves very short. I/ . H. Native of Europe in arid fields. 

 Flowers larger than in var. a. 



Var. y, maritima (Pers. ench. 1. p. 522.) leaves fleshy, in- 

 curved, spreading. I/ . H. Native by the sea-side. 



Knotted Spurry or Sand-chickweed. Fl. July, Aug. Brit 

 PL 3 to 6 inches long. 



2 S. SAGINOIDES (Lin. spec. 631.) stem creeping; leaves 

 opposite, awl-shaped, smooth, nearly pointless ; peduncles soli- 

 tary, very long ; petals obovate, very blunt ; hardly equal in 



length to the obtuse sepals ; seeds rather kidney-shaped, dotted. 

 Tf. . H. Native of Switzerland, France, Siberia and Sweden, as 

 well as in South Carolina and on the north-west coast of America. 

 In Scotland on Mael-Ghyrdy and Ben Lawers. In the islands 

 of Unalaschka and St. Paul. Smith, engl. bot. 2105. Swartz. 

 in the stockh. trans, for 1789. p. 44. t. 1. f. 2. Stellaria biflora, 

 t. 12. but not of Lin. Plant with the habit of Sagina procum- 

 bcns, with several stems in a patch, in their lower part decum- 

 bent, then erect. Petals white. Dr. Swartz says his plant 

 has only 5 stamens, but with us they are 10. 



Sagina-like Spurry. Fl. June, July. Scotland. PI. 2 to 3 

 inches long, 



3 S. SUBULA'TA (Swartz, act. holm. 1789. p. 45. t. 1. f. 3.) 

 plant rather pilose ; leaves opposite, almost sessile, rather leaning 

 to one side, linear-awl-shaped ; somewhat awned, ciliated ; 

 peduncles solitary, very long ; petals length of calyx. 2/ . H. 

 Native of Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Britain on barren 

 heaths, and North America on the Rocky Mountains. Smith, 

 engl. bot. 1082. S. laricina, Huds. 203. Fl. dan. 858. S, 

 saginoides, Curt. lond. fasc. 4. t. 35. Sagina procumbens /3, 

 Lin. spec. 185. Leaves fringed with glandular or slightly viscid 

 hairs, and terminate each in a very conspicuous hair-like point, 

 not sufficiently expressed in engl. bot. 1. c. Flowers white, 

 about half the size of those of S. saginoides. Stamens more 

 frequently 5 than 10. 



Var. fi, fibre-plena ; flowers double, white. 

 Awl-shaped-\ea.\e&. Spurry. Fl. July, Aug. Britain, PI. 

 2 inches. 



4 S. PILI'FERA (D. C fl. fr. 4. no. 4391.) leaves opposite, 

 linear, awned, rather stiff, glabrous, in bundles ; stems creeping, 

 branched, tufted ; peduncles very long ; petals twice as large as 

 the calyx; seeds egg-shaped. H.. H. Native of Corsica on 

 the higher mountains. Flowers white. 



Hair-bearing-leaved Spurry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1826. 

 PI. | foot. 



5 S. GLA'BRA (Willd. spec. 2. p. 821.) plant decumbent; 

 leaves opposite, filiform, glabrous, rather acute ; petals larger 

 than the calyx. Ti . H. Native of the alps of Europe in shady 

 pastures. Poir. diet. 7. p. 306. Spergula saginoides, All. ped. 

 no. 1735. t. 64. f. 1. Flowers white. 



Glabrous Spurry. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1816. PI. trailing, 

 | to ^ foot long. 



6 S. GLANDULOSA (Besser. prim. fl. galic. p. 298.) plant 

 covered with glandular pubescence ; leaves opposite, awl-shaped; 

 stems branched, bearing bundles of smaller leaves in the axillae 

 of the older ones ; petals elliptical, twice as long as the obtuse 

 sepals. If. . H. Native of Galicia in humid pastures. Flowers 

 white. 



Glandular Spurry. Fl. June, Aug. PI. J foot. 



7 S. ARENARIOIDES (Ser. mss. in D. C. prod. 1. p. 395.) plant 

 glabrous ; root thick ; stem prostrate ; branches ascending ; 

 leaves lanceolate, linear, acute ; flowers pentandrous ; petals 

 oblong, length of calyx. I/? F. Native of Mexico. Are- 

 naria ? pentagyna, Moc. et Sesse, pi. mex. ined. icon. Flowers 

 white. 



Sand-nort-liJce Spurry. Fl. June, July. PI. prostrate. 



8 S. APE'TALA (Labill. nov. holl. 1. p. 112. t. 142.) almost 

 stemless ; leaves opposite, connate, imbricate, long ; flowers 

 apetalous, pentandrous ; sepals lanceolate, very acute. Native 

 of Van Diemen's Land. 



Apetalom Spurry. PI. 1 inch. 



9 S. HUMIFU'SA (Cambess in St. Hil. fl. bras. 2. p. 173.) 

 stems trailing, branched, covered with glandular-pubescence 

 beneath ; leaves linear, awl-shaped, connate at the base, smooth- 

 ish ; pedicels axillary, solitary, equal in length with the leaves ; 

 calyx clothed with glandular pubescence ; petals equal in length 



