PL ex. thai 72. CARYOPHYLLE^. 410. Moench. 661 



XV. 410. MCENCHIA. Ehrhart. Moench, 



Calyx 4-sepaled ; sepales connivent, lanceolate, acute, 

 margined ; petals shorter than the calyx, not cut, pointed ; 

 stamens 4; stigmata 4, sessile, villous; capsule 1-celled, 

 opening in 8 teeth at the tip ; seeds kidneyshape, rough. 



Moenchia glauca. Glaucous mcench, 



Herh glaucous; leaves lanceolate, acute; peduncles soli- 

 tary, long, 1 -flowered. 



Alsinella foliis caryophylleis, Raii Syn. 344^ 1. 



Sagina erecia, Lin. S. P. 185. 



Moenchia quaternella, Ehrhart Beitr. 2, 177. 



Alsinella erecta, Mcench Method. 222. 



Moenchia glauca, Persoon Syn. 153. 



Least stitchwort. Upright pearlworf. 



Gravelly pastures ; annual ; September and October. 



Root small; stems few, upright, stiff, or many, trailing; 

 peduncles 1 or 2, very long; petals white, not so long as 

 the calyx ; capsules cylindrical. 



Fam.Vill. 73. CISTINEiE. De Candolle. Cisti, J ussieu. 



Cistece, Lamarck. 

 Calyx .5-sepaled, persisting ; petals 5, hypogynous, equal, 

 caducous, expanded ; stamens many, indefinite, hypogynous ; 

 ovary 1, free; style 1; capsule many- seeded, 1 to 10-celled, 

 3 or many-valved ; seeds affixed to the middle of the valves, 

 or bottom of the cells; perisperm fleshy; corculum bent or 

 spiral. — Stem shrubby or undershrubby ; /eawj mostly op- 

 posite, slipuled. 



410. HELIANTHEMUM. Val. Cordus. Dwarf-cistus. 

 Calyx unequal, 2 outer sepales smallest; capsule 1-celled, 

 3-valved ; seeds adnate to the middle of the valves ; corcu- 

 lum bent. — Flowers mostly yellow. 



a. Flowers yellow ; leaves not stipuled at the base. 



1. Helianth. marifolium. M arum-leaved dwarf-cistus. 



Stem rather shrubby, procumbent; leaves opposite, ovate 

 or oblong, flat; beneath white, tomentose ; Jlowers race- 

 mose. 



Helianthemiim alpinum folio pilosellee mihoris Fuchsii, Jiazi Syn. 3i2, 3. 

 Cislus marifolius, Lin. S. P. 741. 

 Cistus hirsutus, Hudson Fl. Angl. 232. 

 Cistus Anglicus, Lin. Mant. 245. 

 Cistus canus, Jacquin Austr. 277. 



Alpine rocks ; shrubby ; May and June. 



