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tainiu';; a single ovule; stigmas 3, sessile, rruit ovoid-trigonous, 

 bony, iiulehiscent, enveloped in the connivent calyx segments, which 

 remain unaltered. Seed solitary. 



Small herbs or undershrubs with tlie haves alternate, oblong or 

 linear, fleshy, glaucous, furnished with scarious stipules. Flowers small, 

 crowded in axillary glonurules arranged in r.icemes, spikes, or corymbs 

 at the e.xtremity of the stem and branches. 



The name of this genus of plants conies from the woitl Corriijia, a iliong of leather, 

 to wliich the leaves of the si)ccics may have a fancied resemblance. 



SPECIES I-CORRIGIOLA LITTORALIS. Lian. 

 Plate MCLXX. 

 BUM, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 10. 



Annual. Leaves oblanceolate-strapshaped. Flowers in small cymes 

 at the extremity of the stems, and of short leafy lateral branches. 



On sandy shores about Ilelston, Cornwall; and on Slapton Sands 

 and near Start Point, Devon. 



England. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Stems numerous from the crown of the root, decumbent, 3 to 9 inches 

 long, with numerous alternate leaves. Leaves slightly fleshy, | to 

 1 inch long, attenuated towards the base, but not distinctly stalked, 

 each one with a jiair of large scarious half sagittate stipules. Flowers 

 about the size of the mignonette seed, shortly stalked, in cymose clusters 

 confined to the apex of the stem, and of the branches immediately 

 beneath it. Sepals ovate, obtuse, green or purplish, with broad pure 

 white scarious margins. Petals white, as long as the calyx. Capsule 

 enveloped in the persistent calyx, brown, globular-ovoid, marked with 

 3 longitudinal ribs. Plant glabrous, glaucous. 



Sand Strapivort. 

 German, gcmeiner Slrandlhig. 



GENUS n.—U ERNIA.RIA. Toumef. 



Calyx herbaceous, persistent, 5-partite ; segments slightly concave, 

 ovate, obtuse, or subacute, with pellucid scarious margins. Petals ( ?) 5, 

 perigynous, resenil)liiig barren filaments. Stamens 5, or fewer by 

 abortion. Ovary 1 -celled, containing a single ovule; stigmas 2, 

 subsessile. Fruit ovoid, mendtranous, indehiscent, enveloped in the 

 connivent calyx segments, which remain unaltered. Seed solitary. 



Small herbs or undershrubs, with the leaves opposite, glabrous or 



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