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or less indented. The flowers are small and greenish, but 

 the developed fruit is extremely attractive in appearance, 

 resembling a strawberry and consisting of a brilliant red 

 pulpy berry, which has numerous seeds embedded in its 

 wrinkled surface, similar to those which cover the exterior 

 of the Garden Strawberry. 



BLUNT-LEAVED SANDWORT 



Arenaria lateriflora. Pink Family 



Stems: erect, slender, simple or branched. Leaves: thin, oblong, 

 obtuse, punctate, hairy on the margin and midrib. Flowers: petals 

 oblong, obtuse, twice longer than the sepals. Fruit: a capsule. 



The Sandworts are rather insignificant plants with more 

 or less rigid leaves and small white flowers growing in com- 

 pound clusters or flat heads. The Blunt-leaved Sandwort 

 is rather hairy and has oblong dotted leaves which terminate 

 in a rounded apex, and a spherical capsule containing large 

 smooth seeds. 



Arenaria capillaris var. nardifolia, or Narrow-leaved 

 Sandwort, has sharp-pointed leaves grouped in dense clus- 

 ters at the base of the plant, the few stem leaves being much 

 reduced. 



Arenaria verna var. propinqna, or Vernal Sandwort, has 

 densely-tufted flowering stems bearing pairs of tiny leaves 

 all the way up them. 



Arenaria sajanensis, or One-flowered Sandwort, has 

 slender one-flowered stems and narrow leaves. 



LONG-STALKED STITCHWORT 



Stellaria longipes. Pink Family 



Stems: smooth. Leaves: ascending, linear-lanceolate. Flowers: 

 few, on long slender pedicels; petals two-cleft; sepals ovate. Fruit: 

 capsule ovoid. Seeds smooth. 



