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PoORTULACACES. 
Portulaca oleracea LL. A weed in sandy gardens; locally 
frequent; 2-9. Hardly looks native, but Perez Lara does no 
question its status. III. i. ns ii, Algeciras Station! Near 
First Venta! iii. Salt Pans 
PARONYCHIACER. 
eee telephifolia Pourr. var. a P. L. Dry grassy 
and stony fields; very common; 1-12. Between type and 
C. littoralts. I. K. ITI. 
tHerniaria incana L. Dry sandy soil; rare; 5-6. A whitish 
pubescent perennial, with very shortly pedicellate flowers, few in 
clusters or in short axillary racemes, sepals densely pubescent, 
edges and apex not ciliate. Easily confounded with H. cinerea 
DC., a frequent Cadiz species, but annual, clusters larger, flowers 
quite sessile, en with longer more rigid hairs and ciliate at 
apex. re Sew a a III. i. Railway beyond San Roque!? Per- 
1lecebrum mcittialons L. Damp sandy places; rare; 2-7. 
ITI. i. Pools on Bonel’s Farm! ae floating form looks very 
like a Calc. ii. S. de Palma, & 
Chetonychia cymosa Wk. Dry ear velly and sandy 0 
pendsicnal 4-6. A small slender erect annual. I. B 
5 8 eae Queen of Spain’s Chair near Pedrera! Linea, K. 5 iy 
deza Plain! ii. or iii. Sands near eae Rev 
Paronychia echinata Lamk. ry sandy, stony or gravelly 
hills; rather frequent; 3-5. III. _ afer een of Spain’s Chair to 
: argentea La ries hispanica ae In ae mostly peg 
sandy places ; sbantant Eat, 7 del III.! My 285 
eflingia micrantha -&R. In deep ee very local; 4-6. 
A small glutinous, subleafless annual, very like D. hispanica in 
appearance, but with 5, not 3, sta amens, and outer, not all, sepals 
aristate on either — III. ii. and iii. Sands near Palmones, on 
both en? of river 
? (No. 1716). A small slender cua annual, apparently of 
this gens, just below cottage at Waterfall! I have not seen it 
Po olyearpon seirng ho Tie L. f. Dry roadsides, sandy fields and 
waste places; abundant; 3-6. I. IIl.! 
Var. alsinoides cee Less branche flowers fewer, rather 
= in small compact cymes. III. iii, Palmones Sands 
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Umbilicus Pecan DC. Rocks, walls and banks; very 
common ; less n Rock ; Aig Cauline leaves often laterally 
petioled, all pond I.! 
