amawantacf.t:. IH,*) 



n[)i'X of the stem and I>niiiclics, rarely with ii fi-w solitary axillary oiics 

 bLiicath. Calyx sogiuents oblong, oljtiitif, with u l)roa(l wliiti' scarious 

 bortlor. 



In eantly fields. Rare. Xorfidk and SutFolk, especially on the con- 

 fines ot" tiie two counties. In tiie Manual of British Hotany it is 

 IS. biennis; recorded also from Stanncr rocks, Radnor. 



S. poreiinis is very closely allied to var. of S. annuus, and this latter 

 form is indeed often mistaken for it, but the very obtuse calyx seg- 

 ments, with a much broader soarious margin, will always sullice to 

 distinguish S. ])erennis. It is only dwart forms of S. perennis that 

 resemble S. annuus, for when it is luxuriant the stems are veiy nume- 

 rous, nearly simple, and crowded with falcate and subsecund leaves, 

 with fascicles of leaves in their axils. The fruiting calyx tube also 

 is generally puberulent, less deeply furrowed, less constricted at the 

 ba.se of the teeth, which are always connivent and hooded at the apex; 

 the plant is also much more glaucous, and the bracts shorter, seldom 

 longer than the tube of the calyx ; and the stamens are commonly 

 longer than the styles, while the reverse is generally the case in S. 

 aimuus. 



Perennial Knaicel. 

 German, ausilauetendcr Kiiaucl. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



HERNIARIA HIRSUTA. L!nn. 

 Eng. 13ot. ed. i. No. IS70. 



Included in tlie older British lists by mistake; but it has recently 

 occurred near Coventry, no doubt accidentally introduced. 



ORDER LX.— A MARANTACEiE. 



Annual or pereiuiial iierbs or undershrubs, with the leaves alternate 

 or opposite, generally entire; sti[)ule8 none. Flowers perfect or more 

 generally polygamo-dicccious, each one generally with 3 scarious 

 bracts, arranged in licads, spikes, or glomerules. Calyx scarious or 

 more rarely herbaceous, of 3, 4, or 5 sepals, or 4- or 5-cleft or -partite. 

 Petals none. Stamens hypogynous, usually 5, fertile, sometimes with 

 tooth-like sterile ones alternate with the fertile ones, or all united into 



