52 THALAMIFLORJE. 



vato-wedgeshaped apiculated, stem procumbent dicho- 

 tomous, peduncles 1 -flowered. 



Roem. et Schult. Syst. II. 87l.Pluk. Phyt. IV. t. 332. f. 5. 



HAB. Dry sandy situations. 



FL. After rains. 



Stem procumbent, terete, glabrous, jointed. Leaves 6-7 

 in a whorl, subsessile ; the larger leaves lineari-lanceolate ; the 

 smaller obovato-cuneate, glabrous. Pedicels 4-5 together, 

 axillary, 1-flowered, scarcely the length of the leaf. Calyx ex- 

 ternally green ; internally white ; sepals oval, 3- nerved. Sta- 

 mens 3, shorter than the sepals, appressed to the ovary : 

 anthers white. Ovary globose, 3-grooved, yellow: styles 3, 

 spreading. Capsule ovate, 3-celled : seeds subreniform, purple. 



2. Mollugo bellidifolia. Daisy-leaved Chickweed. 



Stem somewhat erect leafless, leaves radical ovato- 

 spathulate attenuated at the base to form the petiole, 

 flowers panicled. De Cand. 



Pharnaceum spathulatum, Swartz, FL Ind. Occ. I. 568. 

 Plum. Amer. t. 21. f. 1. Sloane, I. t. 129. f. 2. 



HAB. Sandy soils. 



FL. After rains. 



Leaves radical, entire, glabrous, decurrent on each side along 

 the petiole. Peduncles several from the same root, filiform, 

 dividing above the middle ; branches subdivided, at length ca- 

 pillary. Flowers minute, whitish. Calycine divisions green 

 and 3-nerved externally, white internally. Stamens 5, length 

 of the calyx, contiguous to the ovary: anthers white. Ovary 

 subglobose, obtusely 3-gonal : styles 3 : stigmata acute. Cap- 

 sule ovate : seeds 5-6 in each cell, compresso-spherical, min- 

 utely granulose and marked with lines. 



III. DRYMARIA. West India Chickweed. 



Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, bifid. Stamens 2-3-5. 

 Styles 3. Capsule 3-valved to the base, 5-co seeded. 

 Embryo in the periphery, subannular. De Cand. 



1. Drymaria diandra. Small-leaved Chickweed. 



Stem and branches minutely puberulous with capi- 

 tato-glandulose viscid hairs, leaves subrotund apiculato- 

 mucronate, flowers diandrous, capsule 5-seeded. 



Holosteum diandrum, Swartz, Prod. 27. t. 7. Fl. Ind. Occ. 

 221 Roem. et Schult. II. 857 Drymaria diandra, De Cand. 

 Prod. I. 393. 



