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P. Common in dry stony places : on walls. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Roots fibrous. Stem branching at the root : branches pro 

 cumbent, afterwards ascending, dichotomously subdivided, 4-ago- 

 nal, puberulous with glanduloso-capitate hairs. Leaves oppo- 

 site, shortly petiolate, subrotund, apiculated, subentire, 3-nerved, 

 delicately reticulato-venose, minutely puberulous to the glass. 

 Stipules multifido-ciliated. Flower-branchlets bifurcating with 

 the leaf-bearing branches : common peduncle usually about 3 

 inches long, bifurcating, viscid with capitato-glandulose hairs : 

 a pair of small lanceolate bracteas at the divisions of the panicle. 

 Flowers small, shortly pedicelled. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acute. 

 Petals rather shorter than the sepals, deeply bipartite. Sta- 

 mens 2, incumbent. Ovary globose : styles 3, short, patent. 

 Capsule ovate, 3-gonal, 3-valved to the base, 1 -celled, 5-seeded : 

 seeds annuloso-reniform, minutely and closely granulose : em- 

 bryo peripheral. 



2. Drymaria cordata. Heart-leaved Drymaria. 



Stem and leaves glabrous subrotund apiculated ob- 

 soletely cordate at the base, peduncles elongated dicho- 

 tomously subdivided many-flowered, calyx glabrous 

 longer than the petals, ovaries 7-10-seeded. 



Sloane, I. 203 Browne, 139 Holosteum cordatum, Lam- 



111. t. 51. f. 2. Drymaria cordata, De Cand. Prod. I. 3U5. 

 H. B. et Kunth, VI. 23. 



HAB. Rocky places in the mountains. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Herbaceous, at the base procumbent, afterwards ascending 

 dichotomously branched, terete, glabrous. Leaves 3-nerved. 

 Stipules lacinulato-fimbriated. Peduncle axillary, elongated, 

 dichotomously subdivided, with a pair of small lanceolate brac- 

 teas at the divisions : pedicels short, 1-flowered, covered with a 

 minute snow-white pubescence. Flowers small collected at the 

 ends of the branchlets of the panicle. Sepals 5, lanceolate. 

 Petals shorter than the sepals, bipartite nearly to the base. 

 Stamens 3- rarely 4, shorter than the petals : anthers bi-cor 

 puscular, inserted on opposite sides of the extremity of the fila- 

 ment. Ovary globose, 3-gonal : styles 3, rather short, spread- 

 ing. Capsule oval, 3-gonal, 3-valved to the base, 1 -celled, 8- 

 seeded : seeds subreniform, minutely granulose under the glass. 



This species differs from the preceding, in the leaves being 

 larger and more succulent, perfectly glabrous, and prominently 

 3-nerved, and the flower-stalks being free of any viscid pubes- 

 cence. It is only found in mountain districts. 



