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XXXIV. PARONYCHIACEyE. 



[ Corrigiola^ 



Joseph de Monti^ a professor of Botany and Nat. Hlstorv at 

 Bologna. -^ ^ 



1. Il.fontana L. {Water B. or Cliickweed). E. B. 1. 1206 



Rills, springy and wet places, 0. 4 — 8, 



Whole plant succu. 



lent, varyins^ considerably in size. ■C'eazjes small, opposite, spathulatT 

 Flowers white, at first drooping. Seeds 3, subreniform, dotted. 



OnD. XXXIV. 



(rarely 



YCHIACE^ ^S'^. i7) 



Petals niinutQ, alternating with the lobes of the calyx, or o' 

 Stamens inserted into the base of the calyx (somewhat hypoo-yj 

 nous), and opposite to its lobes when as many. Ovan/ superior" 

 Styles 2—5. i^rmY small, dry, 1-celled, 1—5 valyed, or inde- 

 hiscent. Seeds numerous on a free central receptacle, or soli- 

 tary and suspended from a long stalk arising from the base of 

 the cell— Small branching herbaceous or suffruticose plants 

 vntk sessile entire leaves and membranaceous stipules.— An Order 

 closely allied in many respects to CARYOPHyi.LACE^, as also 

 to Amaranthace^ and Chenopodiace^, and, like these two 

 having frequently a single perianth. ' 



*" Fruit 1-seeded,- 



Fruit indehiscent. Petals oblong. Leaves alternate. 



Sepals herbaceous fiat. Petals 



1. 



2. 



3. 



cokrigiola. 

 Herniaria. 



4. 



5. 



6. 



Fruit indehiscent. 

 filiform. Leaves opposite. 



Illecebrum. Fruit splitting into valves. Sepals cartilaginous cu- 

 cuilate. Petals or subulate. Leaves opposite. 



** FruiL a several-seeded capsule, 



P01.YCARPOX Sepals keeled at the back, subcucullate at the apex. 

 Petals small, narrow, emarginate. Styles 3. 



Spergularia. Sepals flat. Petals ovate, entire, as lar^e as the 

 calyx. Styles usually 3. 



Spergula. Petals ovate, entire, as large as the calyx. Styles 5, 

 alternate with the sepals. 



1. CoRKiGiOLA Linn. Strapwort. 



Cal 5-partite, permanent. Pet. 5, oblong, about the length 

 of the calyx. Stam. 5. Styles 3. i^ra/nndelnscent, 1-seeded. 

 Leaves alternate. — J^Tamed from corrigia, a strap, or thong; 

 formerly applied to the Polygonum aviculare on account of its 

 long pliant stems : and now to a plant which is somewhat simi- 

 lar to it in habit. 



1. C. Uttordlis L. (Sand S.) : stem leafy ainon": the flowers. 

 E. B. t. 668. / 



Rare; on the south-western coast of England. On Slapham sands 

 and near the Star-point, Devon ; and at Helston, Cornwall. 0. 





