70 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



stigma undivided, capitate. Capsule ovoid or sub-globular, 1-celled 

 or imperfectly 2-celled, septicidally dehiscing by 2 valves, with the 

 placenta) parietal and sutural. Seeds numerous, very minute. 



Small slender annuals, with the habit of Erythraea in miniature, 

 but with a much shorter corolla-tube, and the parts of the flower 

 normally in 4 instead of 5. Elowers yellow or pink, opening in 

 sunshine. 



We find the derivation of the name of this genus of plants given as from cia and 

 candeo, to burn within ; thus we have cicindela, a glowworm. 



SPECIES I— CICENDIA PUSILLA. Griesb. 



Plate DCCCCXI. 

 C. pusilla et C. Candollii, Griesb. in D. C. Prod. Vol. IX. p. 61. 



Stem slender, much branched from the base, and repeatedly 

 forked ; branches spreading. Leaves linear, acute. Elowers in a 

 very lax dichotomoas cyme. Calyx 4-partite ; segments divided 

 to the base, strapshaped - subidate, gradually attenuated towards 

 the apex. Tube of the corolla rather shorter than the calyx- 

 segments; limb of 4 oval-lanceolate mucronatc segments about 

 half the length of the tube. Capsule cylindrical-fusiform, rather 

 shorter than the calyx-segments. 



In damp sandy commons. Very rare. Earadis, Guernsey. 



Channel Islands. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 



A minute inconspicuous annual, with numerous much-branched 

 spreading stems 1 to 3 inches long, with narrow leaves, somewhat 

 resembling those of a Sagina. Elowers solitary, on long slender 

 peduncles, from the centre of the forks of the branches, and at 

 their apices. Calyx of 4 (more rarely 5) long slender segments, not 

 spreading at the apices in the Guernsey plant. Elowers pink. 

 Corolla-tube \ inch long, not glabrous. 



The Guernsey plant has the tips of the calyx-teeth erect as in 

 Griesbach's C. Candollii, and the corolla rose-colour ; but accord- 

 ing to Professors Boreau and Grenier, C. pusilla and C. Candollii 

 cannot be separated even as good varieties, the one being merely a 

 more developed state of the other. 



Least Cicendia. 



German, BilterblaU. 



