46 CALYCIFLOB2E. 



A very graceful-looking plant, but most probably not indigenous. 

 Banks on the sides of the road between Torquay and Paignton. 

 (T. Gallica, Linn.) (E. B. t. 1318.) Sh. VII. 



OED. XXXII. CUCURBITACE-Sl. 



OED. XXXIII. PORTULACEJE. 

 MONTI A. BLINKS. 



M. font ana (water Blinks, or ChicJcweed.} By the edges of 

 rills, and springy wet places, where the water does not become 

 stagnant. A small, green, somewhat succulent plant, growing 

 in dense tufts. Flowers solitary, or in small drooping racemes, 

 white. Forde bog, near Newton. (E. B. t. 1206.) A. iv.-vm. 



OED. XXXIY. PARONYCHIACE.E, 



ILLECEBRUM. KNOT-GRASS. 



I. verticillatum (whorled K.) In marshy and boggy 

 grounds, confined to Devonshire and Cornwall. A minute plant, 

 with spreading procumbent thread-lik,e stems ; leaves broadly 

 ovate ; flowers in axillary whorls, white. Boggy places in Dart- 

 moor. (E. B. t. 895.) P. vn. 



POLYCARPON. ALLSEED. 



P. tetraphyllum (four-leaved A.) Southern' coast of Eng- 

 land ; particularly Devonshire and Dorsetshire. A much 

 branched, spreading, prostrate plant. Flowers diminutive and 

 numerous, in loose terminal cymes, growing in sandy situations 

 near the sea. Kingswear. (E. B. t. 1031.) A. vi. vn. 



SPERGULARIA. SANDWOET-SPUEEEY. 



1. S. rubra (field S.) Sandy and dry gravelly soils, common. 

 Leaves narrow-linear; flowers extremely variable in size, generally 



