CARYOPHYLLACE^. 11 



SuBORD. I. MOLLUGINE^. 



Stamens alternate with the sepals when of the same number ; or when 

 three, alternate with the cells of the ovary : — otherwise as in Illecebrea) and 

 Alsineae. — Leaves often pseudo-verticillate, seldom stipulate. 



MoLLUGO. (Plate 101.) Capsule 3-celled, loculicidal, many-seeded. 



SuBORD. II. SCLERANTHE^. 



Leaves exstipulate. Calyx-tube urceolate in fruit. — Otherwise as in Ille- 

 cebreae, Tr. Paronychieae. 



ScLERANTHus. (Plate 102.) Stamens 5 or 10 : anthers 2-celled. 



SiTBORD. III. ILLECEBRE^. {Paronycuii^m, St. Hil) 



Sepals distinct or united below. Petals often rudimentary or wanting. 

 Ovary sessile. Leaves scarious-stipulate. 



Tribe I. PARONYCHIE^. — Fruit a one-seeded utricle. 



Siphon YCHiA. (Plate 103.) Sepals united to the middle ; the lobes 

 petaloid, with plane and pointless tips. Petals subulate, inserted 

 with the stamens into the throat of the calyx. Style elongated. 

 Utricle inclosed in the calyx-tube. Seed resupinate. 



Anychia. (Plate 104.) Sepals nearly distinct, slightly cucullate and 

 mucronulate at the apex. Petals none. Styles very short. Utricle 

 larger than the calyx. Seed erect. 



Paronychia. (Plate 105.) Sepals united only at the base, cucullate at 

 the apex or convolute, mostly cuspidate or awned, all alike connivent 

 in fruit and inclosing the utricle. Seed suberect or resupinate. 

 Tribe IL SPERGULE^. —Fruit a 3-5-valved several-seeded capsule. 



LcEFLiNGiA. (Plate 106.) Petals minute or none. Sepals cuspidate- 

 pointed ; the three exterior bearing a subulate appendage (like the 

 stipules) on each side. 



Stipulicida. (Plate 107.) Petals spatulate, larger than the emargi- 

 nate scarious-margined sepals. Capsule about 20-seeded. Cauline 

 leaves subulate, minute, connate by the adnate pectinate stipules. 

 Embryo little curved. 



Spergularia. (Plate 108.) Petals oval. Sepals herbaceous. Valves 

 of the many-seeded capsule alternate with the sepals when of the 

 same number. Embryo incompletely annular. Leaves not verti- 

 cillate : stipules free. 



SuBORD. TV. ALSINE^. 



Sepals distinct, or united only at the base. Petals usually present and 

 imbricated in aestivation. Ovary sessile. — Stipules none.* 



* The tribes of this suborder proposed by Fcnzl are not here adopted, because 

 we find the ovary more or less completely three-celled in Honkenya, MoBhrin- 

 gia, &c. ; and at an early period the dissepiments may be seen in oilier Alsineae. 



