396 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : BOTANY. 



glandular-pubescent, 5-6 mm. long. Petals nearly as long. Capsule 

 slightly longer. Seed with a white wing. Flowers secund. 



(Brazil, Chili); Patagon, in meadows by San Julian; forms with a 

 short glandular indumentum, but scarcely making a viscous variety. 



2. BUDA MARINA Dumort. (Arenaria media DC, non L.; A. rubra 



var. marina L.) 



Z^wssemicylindrical, fleshy, as long as the internodes. Sepals lance- 

 ovate, obtusish, scarious-margined. Pedttncles after flowering deflexed. 

 Seeds winged. 



(Europe, in saline meadows by the sea; U. S. along the Atlantic); 

 Patagon. 



3. B. PLATENSIS (Camb.). 



Stems slender. Stipules subequal, united half or third way up. Petals 

 in the lower flowers ovate ; in the upper none. Capsttle slightly exserted. 

 Seeds tubercled. 



(Chili; Argentina); N. Patagon. (?). 



u. PARONYCHIA Juss. 



Tufted herbs, with scarious stipules and bracts ; and small, clustered, 

 apetalous flowers. Calyx 5-parted, the segments mostly bristle-pointed. 

 Stamens 5, or with 5 additional staminodes. Style 2-cleft. Utricle i- 

 seeded. 



Species 40, in warm and temperate climates. 



P. CHILENSIS DC. 



Root fruticose. Stems diffused, cespitose. Leaves crowded, oblong- 

 linear, mucronate, glabrous. Flowers in axillary clusters. Calyx-seg- 

 ments scarcely mucronate. 



(Chili) ; N. Patagon. 



12. HERNIARIA L. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Calyx-tiibe short, turbinate. 

 Style very short, more or less deeply 2-parted. Fruit enclosed in the 

 perianth-leaves. 



