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Common in moist woods, heaths, and moors. 



Summer. 



Growing in dense or scattered patches. Stems 

 i to 2 inches long, slender, procumbent, simple 



or innovant, pale green. 

 Leaves rather close and im- 

 bricate, so as to conceal the 

 stem, small at the base and 

 extremity, largest in the 

 middle, horizontal, widely 

 ovate, convex above, many 

 entire, others cleft with a 

 wide obtuse notch at the 

 apex, without serratures, pale 

 glaucous green (fig. 62). 

 Stipules one to each pair of 

 leaves, roundish, with a deep, 

 somewhat lunate, notch at the apex. Calyx attached 

 by one side of its mouth to a short foot-stalk, so that 

 the rest is pendent, and imbedded in the soil, oblong, 

 obtuse, fleshy, covered externally with rather long 

 hairs, pointing upwards. Capsule linear-oblong 

 having the four valves twisted in a spiral (fig. 63). 

 Elaters bispiral. — (Plate 2, fig. 22.) 



var. a repanda, Nees Eng. Bot. t. 1875. 

 Leaves evidently bidentate, subrepand, 

 stipules broad, narrowly bifid, lacinia? rather 

 acute. 



On moist banks. 



62. 



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Kantia argrita, Nees. 

 Stem creeping, somewhat branched ; leaves 



