CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 21 



Plate 105. 



PARONYCHIA, Tourn,, Juss. 



Calyx 5-partitus, exinvolucratus ; sepalis conformibus, ad 

 apicem cucullatis vel convolutis, aequaliter aristatis seu mu- 

 cronatis, fructiferis clausis utriculum includentibus. Petala 

 minimaj setiformia, vel nulla, cum staminibus saepius 5 imo 

 calyci inserta. Stylus apice bifidus. Semen e funiculo 

 basilar! introrsum pi. m. resupinato-pendulum ; radicula su- 

 pera seu adscendente. — Herba3 diffusae vel caBspitosee ; sti- 

 pulis interfoliaceis scariosis argenteis. 



Paronychia, Tourn. Inst. Juss. in Mem. Mus. 1. p. 338. DC. Prodr. 



3. p. 370 (excl. § 3). Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. p. 169 (excl. § 3). 



Endl. Gen. 5202 (excl. § Siphonychia & Anychia). 

 Illecebri Sp., Linn. 



Anychia Sp., Michx. Fl. 1. p. 112, ex parte. 

 Plottzia, Am. in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. ed. 2. p. 441. 



Whitlo\i'-vvort. 



Calyx of five similar herbaceous or partly scarious sepals, 

 usually coriaceous when old, united at the base, slightly im- 

 bricated in asstivation. Petals (or rather sterile stamens) 

 5, setiform, rarely triangular, inserted on the base of the 

 calyx alternate with its divisions, sometimes abortive or 

 wanting. Stamens 5 (rarely fewer) inserted on the base of 

 the calyx opposite its divisions : filaments subulate, persist- 

 ent : anthers introrse, two-celled, the cells opening longi- 

 tudinally. Ovary globular or oblong, one-celled : style 

 slender or short, two-cleft at the apex or two-parted, the 

 lobes stigmatose down the inner face. Ovule solitary, 

 amphi-campylotropous, borne on the summit of a basilar 

 funiculus which rises from the base of the cell, with the 

 micropyle at first inferior, or at length usually introrsely 

 resupinate. 



