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XIV. CARYOPIlYLLACEiE, 



1. E. hexundra DC. Qiexandrous W.) ; leaves opposite sna 

 thulate, flowers alternate pedicellate erect hexandrous tripe' 

 tabus, calyx-segments spreading, capsule turbinate concave at 

 the summit 3 -celled, seeds 8—12 in each cell nearly straight 

 ascending. E. tripetala Sm. E. Fl. E. Hvdroniner F % 

 t. 955. (not L.) j i i ^. jj. 



Margins of ponds and ditches, rare. Bomere pool, near Condover 

 •Shropshire; Hedge-Court Pond, near East Grinstead, Surrey' 

 Binfiold, Berks; Crawley and Maresfield, Sussex; Coleshill pool' 

 Warwickshire; also in Cornwall, Leicestersliire, Cheshire, and Ano-le' 

 sea. I.och Ruisky, near Callender, Perthshire ; Loch of Drum Kin* 

 cardineshire ; Loch Fadd, Isle of Bute. G). 7— 9.— A minute" 



procumbent, much-branching plant, with axillary solitary fotvers 

 Petals rose-coloured. Seeds mostly beautifully ribbed and trans- 



versely striate. 



TF.) 



spathuiate, flowers alternate sessile erect octandrous tetrape- 

 talous, calyx shorter than the petals divided to the base, se<»- 

 ments ligulate, capsule roundish depressed 4-celled, seeds about 

 4 in each cell pendulous uncinate. Linn, Flor. Suec: Borr 

 in E. B. S, t. 2670 (excl. a.). E. nodosa Am. 



Rare; Farnham, Surrey. East end of Llyn Coron, Anglesea 

 growing with E. hexandra, Newry, and at the Lough Neagh outlet 

 of the Lagan Canal, Ireland. ©. 8.— Asserted by Seubert to be the 

 Hydropiper of Buxbaum, and consequently of Linnaeus, but certainly 

 most distinct from E. Ilydropiper D C, the E. major of Braun 

 which is that^figured in Valllant's FL Par. t. 2. f. 2., and Lam. ill! 

 t. 320. f 2. This last is much stouter, has the seeds almost straight 

 and as numerous as in E, htxandra, capsule depressed, twice as large 

 as in our two species and the calyx cleft only to about the middle of 

 the segments which are short very broadly ovate and erect ; the flowers 

 are evidently pedicellate : it Is allied to, and united, we think erro- 

 neously, by Seubert, with E. hewandra. We have never seen speci- 

 mens except from the neighbourhood of Paris. 



Oed. XIV. CARYOPHYLLACEiE Juss. 



Sepals 5 cr 4, persistent, distinct or united. Petals as many, 

 rarely wanting. Stamens as many as or double the number of 

 the petals, inserted upon a fleshy elevated disk, supporting the 

 ovary, or a ring. Anthers opening longitudinally. Ovary 1. 

 Styles 2—5. Capsule 1 -celled (sometimes only so at the summit, 

 and 2— 5-celled below), 2—5 valved or opening at the summit 

 with teeth, placenta central and free in the 1-celled capsules, in 

 the rest axile. Seeds generally numerous. Embryo generally 

 curved round a mealy albumen. — Herbs, more or less tumid at 

 the joints, with opposite entire leaves, without stipules (by zvhich 

 alone our Suborder Alsinea^ differs from Paronychiacete}, 



