PENTANDRIA— TETRAGYNIA. Parnassia. IVJ 



1. C. Uttoralis. Sand Strapwort. 



C. littoralis. Linn. Sp. PL 388. mild. v. I. 1506. Fl. Br. 339. 



Engl. Bot. V. 10. t. 668. Fl. Grcec. v. 3. 86. t. 292. Dicks. Dr. PL 



61. H. Sice. fasc. 14.10. FL Dan. t. 334. 

 C. n. 842. HaU. Hist. v. 1. 375. 

 Polygoni, vel Linifolia per terram sparsa, flore, Scorpioides. Bauh. 



Hist. V. 3. p. 2. 379./. 

 Polygonum littoreum minus, flosculis spadiceo-albicantlbus. Bauh. 



Pin. 281. Prodr. 131. Mom. j;. 2. 593. sect. 5. ^ 29./. 1. 

 P. minus, spermate in cauliculorum extremis acervato, thlaspios 



sapore. Cupan. Panphijt. ed. 1. v. 1. t. 76. 



On the southern coast of England. 



Found by Mr. Hudson, on Slapham sands beyond Dartmouth, and 

 near the Star point. 3Ir. Alartin. On the beacli near the tin 

 mine at Helston, Cornwall. F. Borone. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root small and tapering. Stems several inches long, spreading 

 on the ground in every direction, flaccid, not much branched, 

 round, leafy, flowering at the extremity. Leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late, obtuse, entire, glaucous, rather fleshy, each tapering at the 

 base into a shoit footstalk. Stipulas in pairs, acute, membra- 

 nous. Clusters terminal and lateral, subdivided or interrupted, 

 of numerous, pearly, often sessile,^0M;er5. Seed black. 



C. capensis, WiUd. v. 1. 1507, appears not specifically distinct. 



FENTAAWRIA TETRAGYNIA. 



178. PARNASSIA. Grass of Parnassus. 



Linn.Gen. 151. Jus$.245. Fl.Br.339. Tourn.t.\27. Lam.t.2\G. 

 Gccrtn. t. 60. 



Nat. Ord. Campanacea;. Linn. 29. Akin to Capparides. 

 Juss. 64. Surely most allied to Saxifragce. Juss. 84, 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 very deep, oblong, spreading, 

 permanent segments. Pet. 6, ovate, obtuse, concave, 

 spreading, longer than the calyx, with several longitu- 

 tlinal pellucid ribs, and sometimes fringed at the margins. 

 Nectaries 5 fleshy scales, attached to the claws ot the 



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