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lid. si. in pi u '•' 



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Herbaceous or half-shrubby branching plants, with opposite or alb ra 

 tire leaves, and Bcarious stipules. Flowers minute, wil 

 Idom .'i or l. Bometimes distinct, Bometii 

 cohering more or less. Petals minute, inserted upon the 

 i between the lobes, occasionally want a unens 



exactly opposite the sepals, if equal to them in Dumber, 

 sometimes fewer bj abortion, sometimes more numerous ; 

 IhunentB distinct ; anthers 2-celled. Ovarj I -celled, rarely 

 Swelled, with 1 or more ovules, superior . ither 



distinct or partially combined. Fruit small, dry, 1 -celled, 

 jelled, either indehiscent or opening with 3 \ 

 - either numerous, upon a free central placenta, or 

 solitary and pendulous from a funiculus originating in the 

 of the cavity of the fruit : albumen far ; em- 



bryo lying on one side of the albumen, curved more or less, 

 wall the radicle always pointing to th>_- hilum; cotyledons 

 small. 



Very near Purslanes, Amaranths, and Qoveworts, from 

 which they are distinguished with difficulty. From the lat- 

 t.-r their Bcarious stipules will separate them; and there 

 Lrcerj any other character that will; for no value 

 dgnable to a slight tendency to a perigynous 

 insertion of th<- stam as which i~ observable in both 

 Orders. From Pur-Ian. - they are best known by the 

 (H»i tion of the Btamens before the sepals instead of the 



-. and l'\ the number of the a pals. \\ irh rloua I 

 particularly Tilhsa, they often a habit, but their 



concrete carpels will always distuiiruish them. According 



i" i':uni !.-, the .•■Tin- Spergularia, in which the petals 



■nd stamens are verj often perigynous, the styles sometimes 

 idated at their base, and the Btamens 5 in number, 

 Bhea a passage between Cloveworta and Khotworts, and tends nfirm the 



opinion of those who consider these two < Irdi rs a^ belonging to the - 1 



The south of Europe and the north of Africa are the great - 

 where the species grow in the most barren phi ring with a thi.-k 



which is incapable of bearing anything else. A few are found at 

 Hop : and North America, including M< iprehends Beveral. 



string! ncj p rvadee the i Irder, and is the onlj 

 now a to ] 



GENBB v 



1 

 I . . . . \I.II. 



ola, Linn. 

 1 Vaill. 



"'.'■ 

 • /• 

 nema, /»('. 



, n 



ParonycM.i. . 



'■• i, I i Rich. 



? Lithophili • 

 Pteranthus, Fgrtk. 



I fi rit. 



mi. 



Saltia, R, Itr. 

 Pollicbia - 



' inch. 

 Telephium, 

 LcrflUngia, Linn. 



Position. 



N :■' rs. Gen. 24. Sp. 

 Portulacete.- Illi 



CCXLll. -raronychia capitata. 1. a section of a flo* 



*lH>n of :t- 



• «o ; 4. * 





