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slightly rugose. Plant sparingly glandular-pubescent, with the 

 edges of the leaves ciliated, especially towards the base. 



On wall tops, garden walks, and other dry places. Common in 

 England, but rare in Scotland, where I have only seen it at Ber- 

 wick and ]\Iussclburgh, though it has been reported as far North 

 as Perth and Forfarshire ; Dr. Walker Arnott, however, refers the 

 Perth plant (which I have not seen) to S. ciliata. 



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



Stems diffusely branched, 1 to 7 inches high, the central one, 

 according to Professor Babington, sometimes forming a rosette in 

 the first instance, but flowering late in the season; this form 

 has not come under my notice. The habit is extremely like that 

 of S. maritima, but the stems are more slender, the leaves much less 

 fleshy and they taper gradually to a bristle-like point, the flowers 

 are smaller with the petals more frequently present. The whole 

 plant is deep green, seldom tinged with purple, as in S. maritima. 

 Like the preceding and following species, tliis plant varies much ; 

 but as the varieties have not received specitic names, I have not 

 particularized them. 



Common Small-Jloioered Pearlwort. 



French, Sagine Ajxtcde. German, Blumenhlaillose Sagine. 



SPECIES III.— S A GIN A CILIATA. Fries. 

 Plate CCXLVII. 



S. ciliata (Fries) el depressa, Schultz. Reich. Ic. FI. Germ, at Helv. Vol. V, Caryoph. 



Tab. CO. Figs. 4956, 49-57. 

 S. patula, Jord. Obs. sur pi. PL Nov. et Grit. Frag. I. p. 2.5. 

 S. filicaulis, Jord. Obs. sur pi. PI. Nov. et Grit. Frag. VII. p. 16. 

 S. ambigua, Lloyd, Fl. de I'Ouest de la Fr. p. 74. 



Stems numerous, very slender, ascending or decumbent, the 

 primary or central one bearing flowers as well as the lateral ones, 

 which are commonly decumbent, but not rooting at the base. 

 Lower leaves crowded so as to appear like a rosette, soon wither- 

 ing; stem leaves generally distant, all slightly fleshy, setaceous- 

 subulate, flatfish above, slightly convex beneath, tapering at the 

 apex into a short awn or mucro. Cymes rather few flowered, lax. 

 Pedicels always erect (or very slightly curved after flowering), long 

 and slender, generally glabrous. Sepals ovate, concave ; the outer 

 pair contracted at the apex into a slightly curved mucro, the 

 inner pair obtuse ; the whole four applied to the capsule when it is 

 mature. Petals very minute, or very often absent. Capsule erect. 



