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XIII. ELATINACE^. 



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Sepals 

 Petals 4 



Ord. XII. FRANKENIACE^ St Hil. 



4 — 5, combined into a furrowed persistent tube. 



Stamens as many 



—2 acces- 



5, clawed, crowned at the mouth. 



as the petals and alternating with them, with usually 1 



sary ones opposite to the petals. 

 2— 3-cleft. Capsule 2 



4-valved, 



Ovary 



1 -celled. 



attached to the margins of the valves. 



Style filiform, 

 Seeds minute, 

 Embryo straight in the 

 albumen, — Herbaceous or suffruticose, mnch branched. Leaves 

 opposite^ without stipules^ but with a membranous sheathing base. 



1. Frankenia Linn. , Sea-Heath. 



Stig. 3. — Named from Jo^n Franken, a Swedish botanist 

 and professor of medicine at Upsal, who died in 1661. 



(smooth 



leaves linear revolute at the 



margin glabrous ciliated at the base. E. B. t, 205. 



Muddy salt marshes about Yarmouth and the other eastern coasts 

 of England. Isle of Sheppey, Kent. %. 7, 8.— A humble procum- 

 bent planty with wiry stems and numerous fascicled leaves, which are 

 really oblong, and only appear linear by the edges being revolute. 

 Flowers pale rose-coloured, terminal or from the axils of the branches. 



2. F. yulverulenta L. (powdery S.) ; leaves obovate retuse 

 glabrous above, downy £Lnd pulverulent beneath, petiole ciliated. 

 E. B. t. 2222. 



Found in the time of Dellenius and Hudson on the sea-coast of 

 Sussex. 0. 7. — Stems prostrate, repeatedly dichotomous. Flowers 

 smaller than in the preceding. 



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Ord. XIII. ELATINACE^ Camb. 



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Calyx 3— 5-partite or -cleft. Petals 3—5, sessile. Stamens 

 equal to, or double the number of, petals. Ovary with from 

 3—3 cells and as many styles and capitate stigmas. Capsule 

 3_5.celled, 3— 5-valved; wZiJe^ alternate with the dissepiments 



Seeds numerous^ without 



Small annuals, in- 



which adhere to a central axis. 



albumen; radicle turned to the hilum, 



habiting marshy places, with rooting stems and opposite or verti- 



dilate leaves. 



1. Elatine Linn. Water- wort. 



Cal inferior, 3— 4-partite or -cleft, persistent. Pet. 3—4. 



Styles 3 or 4, very short. Caps. 3-4-valved, 3— 4-celled. 

 >S'eecZ5 cylindrical, furrowed and transversely striate. — Named 

 from i\aTiyr]y some plant found growing among corn and very 

 dissimilar to our present one. 



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