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tliis has no particles of mica adhering to the roots, as most fre- 

 quently happens with plants gathered on the Clova moimtaiiis, 

 where it purports to have been gathered. 



Scotland ? Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 3 inches to more than 1 foot high, with numerous short 

 ascending branches. Leaves ^ to f inch long, enlarged at the base, 

 adpressed. Cymes at first slender, with the pedicels all unequal 

 until the capsules are mature, when they become flat-topped, and 

 then the inflorescence assumes the form of a narrow interrupted 

 panicle of small fascicles, and in this state could be mistaken for 

 no other British species. 



Level-topped Sandwort. 



French, Aldne de Jaquin. German, Jacqidns Alsine. 



Section V.— ALSINANTHE^. Fenzl. 



Fructiferous calj'x not indurated at the base, concolorous. Petals 

 oblanceolate. Seeds reticulated. Leaves fleshy, short, linear or 

 filiform, triquetrous, 1-nerved; those of the barren shoots and 

 base of the stem crowded. 



SPECIES VI.-AL SINE ULIGINOSA. 

 Plate CCXLIV. 



Alsinanthe stricta, Reich. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Couryoph. Tab. CCIX. 



Fig. 4935. 

 Arenaria uliginosa, Schlecht.'' B. C. Prod. Vol. I. p. 407. Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. 



p. 122. Hooh. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 66. 

 Alsine stricta, WM. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. eJ. v. p. 51. 

 Spergula stricta, Swartz. 



Eootstock short, rather slender, somewhat woody, dividing into 

 numerous branches, which give off erect flowering stems, and short 

 ascendmg barren shoots. Leaves rather crowded on the barren 

 shoots, esj)ecially on their apices, and in fascicles produced from 

 the axUs of the leaves at the base of the stem, but very remote 

 on the flowering stem, and sometimes absent above the middle ; 

 the basal ones rather short, filiform-triquetrous, those of the stem 

 much shorter. Inflorescence a lax dichotomous cyme of few 

 flowers, often reduced to 1 or 2. Pedicels very long, that of the 

 central flower of the cyme (or the only one when it is reduced 

 to one), ten or twelve times as long as the calyx. Sepals oval- 

 lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved. Petals about as long as the sepals. 

 Capsule a little shorter than the sepals. Seeds rcniforra, with the 



