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filiform, 3 to 12 lines long; flowers on long slender pedicels; sepals 3-nerved; petals obovate, 
2 lines long or more; longer than the sepals. 
2. A. Californica, Brew. Leaves lanceolate, 1 or 2 lines long; flowers smaller than 
the last; petals spatulate. 
3. A. palustris, Wat. Stems weak, 4to 8 inches high; leaves linear, flaccid, 6 to 
12 lines long; flowers few on long pedicels; petals 3 or 4 lines long. In swamps. 
5. SPERGULA, L. Corn-SPurRy. 
Sepals 5. Petals 5, entire. Stamens 10, rarely 5. Ovary 1-celled, many-ovuled; 
styles 5, alternate with the sepals. Annuals dichotomously branched, with awl-shaped 
apparently whorled leaves (fascicled). 
1. S. arvensis, L. The almost filiform leaves 1 or 2 inches long; flowers white, the . 
long pedicels at length reflexed. Naturalized. 
6. LEPIGONUM, Fries. Sanp-SPuRRY. 
Sepals 5. Petals 5, entire, rarely fewer. Stamens 10, or fewer by abortion. Ovary 
l-celled, many ovuled; styles 3, or rarely 5. Low herbs, with setaceous or linear fascicled 
leaves; flowers white or pink, pediceled. 
1, L. macrothecum, Fisch. & Mey. Rather stout, often a foot high; leaves fleshy 
3 to 2 inches long, with large ovate stipules; pedicels becoming reflexed; sepals 3 or 
more lines long, equaling the pinkish petals. In salt-marshes. 
2. L. medium, Fries. More slender than the last, with smaller flowers on shorter 
pedicels. 
Ornprz 11. PORTULACACEZ. 
Suceulent herbs, with simple and entire leaves, and regular but unsymmetrical perfect 
flowers; the sepals only 2, the petals 2 to 5 or more; the stamens opposite the petals 
when of the same number; the ovary l-celled. Stamens sometimes indefinitely numerous, 
commonly adhering to the base of the petals, these sometimes united at the base. Style 
2 to 8-cleft. Stipules none. 
* Sepals 2, distinct, persistent. 
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1. CALANDRINIA, HBK. 
Petals mostly 5 (3 to 10). Stamens 5to15. Ovary free, many-ovuled; style 3-cleft, 
short. Capsule globose or ovoid, 3-valved. Seeds shining-black. Low succulent herbs 
with alternate leaves. 
