336 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Glaux. 



In marshy boggy ground, in Cornwall and Devonshire. 



In Devonshire not uncommon. Mlth. About Pensans. F. Borone. 



Perennial. July. 



Root creeping. Herb smooth, branched, procumbent. Leaves 

 small, ovate, acute, or sometimes spatulate, scarcely stalked, 

 rather fleshy. Stipulas intrafoliaceous, small, white, jagged. 

 FL small, aggregate, axillary, white or reddish. Calyx-leaves 

 abrupt, with long, twisted, terminal bristles ; concave at the 

 inner side. Scales between the stamens lanceolate, reddish, 

 pointed, alternate with the calyx, resembling petals. Filam. 

 very short. Stigma notched. Caps, of 5 distinct valves. 



125. GLAUX. Sea-milkwort. 



Linn. Gen. 1 14. Juss. 333. Fl. Br. 268. Tourn. t. GO. Lam. M41 . 



Nat. Oi'd. CalycantliemcE. Linn. 17. Salicaricc. Juss. 91. 



Supposed by recent authors, see HooJc. Scot. 212, to be 

 allied to Samohis, p. 323, and therefore to the Primulacece, 

 see p. 269 ; but their characters and habits are essentially 

 different. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, coloured, bell-shaped, in 5 deep, 

 spreading, obtuse, recurved segments, permanent. Co7\ 

 none. Filam. awl-shaped, erect, not longer than the 

 calyx. Anth. roundish. Genu, superior, ovate. Sti/le 

 cylindrical, as long as the stamens. Stigma capitate. 

 Caj)s. globose, pointed, of 1 cell and 5 valves. Seeds 5, 

 roundish, attached to a very large, globular, centi'al, 

 pitted receptacle. 



Herbaceous. Z/eaw^s opposite, simple, undivided. FI. axillary. 



In its cahjx this genus is akm to Polygonum, in its fruit to 

 Jussieu's Lysimachits ; but cannot well be referred to any 

 natural order yet defined. 



1. G. maritima. Common Sea-milkwort. Black 

 Saltwort. 



G. maritima. Linn. Sp. PI. 301. fViUcL v. 1. 1210. Fl. Br. 2CS. 



Engl. Bot. v.l.t. 13. Hook. Scot. 82. Raii Syn. 285. Fl. Dan. 



t. .548. Ehrh. Pbyi. 83. 

 Polygonum maritimum longius radicatum nostras. Raii Syn. erf. 2. 



G9.ec/.3. IGl. Pluk.Pl>yt.t.53.f.3. 

 Newton's Knotgrass. Pet. H. Brit. t. 10./. 6. 

 Alsine bifolia, fructu Coriandri, radice geniculata. Lees. Pniss. 



13. t. 3. 

 Herniaria glabra /3. Hiids. 108 



In muddv salt-marshes abundantly. 



