CAKYOPnYLLACE.=E. 103 



Stem rather weak. Sepals lanceolate. Fruit pedicels spreading. 

 Capsule oblong-ovoidj compressible without breaking when ripe. 



On walltops and in dry places. Common throughout the whole 

 of Britain ; but var. ji has as yet been recorded only from England, 

 where it is in many places the more common form, though it is 

 most probable that it wiU be found to extend to Scotland and 

 Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring to Autumn. 



Root slender. Stem dividing into a number of divisions close 

 to the crown of the root, from 2 to 12 inches long, these branches 

 nearly simj^le in small examples, but with short branches through- 

 out in the larger ones. Leaves ^ to ^ inch long, all those on the 

 same plant nearly equal in size. Flowers i to ^^ inch across, white. 

 Peduncles i to ^ inch long when full grown, generally straight in 

 var. a, but sometimes curved at the apex after flowering in var. 0, 

 though ultimately erect. Outer sepals in var. a usually 5-nerved, 

 the inner ones 3-nerved ; in var. 3 they are generally all 3-nei*ved, 

 but this is not a constant character. Plant greyish-green, covered 

 with short stiff hairs, which are reflexed on the stem and peduncles, 

 but ascending or spreading on the margins of the leaves and ribs 

 of the sepals. 



The extreme forms of varieties a and 3 are so different that it 

 excites no surprise that they have been considered as distinct species; 

 but so many specimens have come under my notice which cannot be 

 satisfactorily assigned either to the one or the other, that it seems 

 to me better to consider them as varieties than to admit them as 

 sub-species. 



One of the forms collected in the Isle of Wight by Mr. A. G. 

 More has been doubtfully referred to A. Lloydii (Jord.). Of the 

 true A. Lloydii I have seen no authentic specimens, and am there- 

 fore unable to give a definite opinion ; but Lloyd, in " The Flora of 

 the West of France," states that in A. Lloydii the sepals have the 

 hairs not glandular, while in that found by Mr. A. G. More they 

 (as well as those of the rest of the plant) are tipped with glands. 

 This Isle of Wight plant (which I have also found on Deal sandhills 

 and in the Isle of Sheppcy) appears to differ from var. a only in 

 shorter and stouter stems, larger capsules more inflated below, 

 sepals more strongly nerved, and hairs of the upper part all tipped 

 with glands. It appears to be A. serpyllifolia, var. 3, glutinosa 

 (Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 128). The ordinary 

 forms of both varieties a and have frequently a few glandular 

 hairs on the sepals. 



Thyme-leaved Sandwort. 



. French, Sahliiie i Feuilks de Serpulet. German, Qiiendelblatlrlyes Sandkraut. 



