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young branches : the flowers grow fingly on the 

 fummits of the branches, upon long, naked, 

 flightly hairy peduncles : the fegments of the 

 calyx are oval, obtufe and flightly hairy : tlie pe- 

 tals are white, and about the length of the ca- 

 lyx : the number of fl:amina varies from five to 

 ten, and of ftyles from three to five ; but the 

 primary flowers have ten fl:amina and five Hyks : 

 the capfule generally nods. It is a matter of 

 fome doubt whether the SAGINA procumbens 

 var. jS. Lin, Sp, pL 185. (Pet. herb. /. 59- ^0 

 be not the fame plant with this. 



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