SAGINA CERASTOIDES. 



Moufe - ear. Peaii - wort. 

 Tetrandria Tetragynia. 



^^HAR. GEN. Calyx tetraphyllus; petala 4,- capfula 

 uniiocularis quadrivalvis polyfperma. 



SAGINA cerafloides caule diflPufo dichotomo , foliis fpa- 

 tulatis obovatisve recurvis , pedunculis fructife- 

 ris reflexis. smitii in JLinn. Transad. II. p. 



343—345. 



r 



LINN, Sp. pl. cura JVilld. I. 2. p. 718» 

 Habitat in arenofis mariiimis & ffsuris rupium 



Scotiae (in Bodotriae infnlii Incb Keitb & Incb Combe in the 

 Firtb of Fortb, & on the beach below PreftonpatisJ) 



smith telie dickson qui novam (tirpem primui in- 

 venit. V. JLinn. Trans. 1. c. 



sowerey's engl. Bot. XL. n. 166. 



Floret lunio, Xulio. Q? 



Herba facie Ceraftii , fed ftoribus femper quadrifidis. 

 JRadix fibrofa, annua ut videtur. Caules plurimi diffufi 

 fpitbamaei, tcretes, foliofi; bafi attenuati,. glabfiufculi , al- 

 ternatim ramofi; fuperne magis pubefcentes, dichotomi, 

 geniculis tumidiufculis, palliais, rainulis divaricatis. Fo- 

 lia oppofita, patenri-recurva, integerrima, acuta, mollia % 



utrin- 



