102 ENGLISn BOTANY. 



Section II.— EUTHALIA. Fenzl. 



Sepals 5, not indurated at the base. Petals 5. Stamens 10. 

 Styles 3 (rarely 4 or 5). Capsule opening by twice as many teeth 

 or valves as there are styles. Seeds globose or lenticular, generally 

 rough, shining, destitute of a strophiole. 



SPECIES II.— A REN A HI A SERF YLLIFOLI A. Linn. 

 Plates CCXXXV. CCXXXVI. 

 Reich. Ic. ri. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Caryoph. Tab. CC'XVI. Fig. 4941. 



Root annual. Stems numerous, rather firm, much branched 

 throughout, ascending or decumbent. Leaves ovate, acuminate, 

 1- to 3-nerved, firm in texture, all sub-sessile, more or less rough 

 and ciliated at the margin. Flowers numerous, in dichotomous 

 cymes terminating the stem and branches, with leaf-like bracts 

 Avhich have not unfrequently 5 or 7 nerves. Pedicels longer than 

 the sepals, ascending or slightly spreading after flowering. Sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, shortly aciuninate, with 3 to 5 hairy 

 nerves, the lateral nerves near the margins, which are narrowly 

 membranous and glabrous. Petals oval-oblanceolate, about two- 

 thirds the length of the sepals. Capsule ovate- ovoid or oblong- 

 ovoid, attenuated towards the apex, as long as the sepals or slightly 

 exceeding them. Seeds roundish-reniform, shagrecned. Whole 

 plant more or less pubescent, the hairs sometimes tipped with glands. 



Var. a, sphcerocarpa. 



Plate CCXXXV. 



A. spliserocarpa, " Tenor e, Syll. p. 219," Bah. Guss. Syn. Fl. Sicil. Vol. I. p. 495. 

 A. serpylliiblia, Bah. Fl. Canib. p. 304 ; and Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 53. Boreau, 



Fl. da Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. p. 109. Godr. Fl. de Lorr. ed. ii. p. 122. Lloyd, 



Fl. de rOuest de la Fr. p. 77. 



Stems stiff. Sepals ovate-lanceolate. Pruit j)edicels ascending. 

 Capsule broadly ovate-ovoid, brittle when ripe. 



? Var. 3, leptoclados. 

 Plate CCXXXVI. 



A. leptoclados, Guss. Bah. Fl. Camb. p. 304 ; and Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 53. 



Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. p. 109. Godr. Fl. de Lorr. ed. ii. p. 123. 



Lloyd, Fl. de I'Ouest de la Fr. p. 77. 

 A. serpyllifolia, " Tenore, Syll. p. 219," Bab. Guss. Syn. Fl. Sicil. Vol. I. p. 495. 

 A. serpyllifolia ji, leptoclados, Reich. 1. c. 

 A. serpyllifolia y, tenuior, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv, ed. ii. p. 128. 



