54 14. CABTOPHYLLACE^. 



There is a form with branches fi'om a rosette which iiltimately 

 lengthens into a stem and flowers.; the st. and branches usually 

 prostrate ; common upon gravel-walks. — ^Walla and dry places. 

 A. v.— IX. E.S.I. 



3. S. dlidta (Fr.) ; st. long, branches diffuse or spreading,, 1. 

 linear awned, outer sep. pointed scarcely shorter than and adpressed 

 to the mature caps, their tips patent. — J?., v. 200. S. patul'a Jord. 

 — Glabrous. Central st. flowering and together with the 

 branches erect or ascending, not rooting. Gal. and tips of ped. 

 somet^mes ^with gland-tipped hairs. Gaps, ovate-attenuate, 

 rounded below, stalked. — Dry places and sandy heaths. A. V. 

 VI. ' E. S. I. 



4. S. maritima (Don),; central st. long forked, branches 

 ascending, I. fleshy blunt or apiculate 'rounded at the back 

 glabrous, sep. blunt about equalling the capsule ultimately 

 spreading slightly) ^ed erect. — S. stricta Fries. — St. often purple, 

 brittle. The central stem produces flowers and is erect, or in 

 luxuriant plants more or less procumbent. Sep. concave with 

 incurved tips. ,Caps. ovate, rounded below. — A much-branched 

 prostrate form is 8. dehilis (Jord.) ; its calyx usually exceeds the 

 caps., and all its stems are often prostrate and spring from a 

 false rosette. — Another very much branched state forming dense 

 tufts, with short joints and shorter linear plane-convex 1,, caps. 

 ovat6 rounded below,' is S. den'sa (Jord.) — On the sea-shore. 

 (Fries states that his plant sometiines occurs upon mountains 

 in Norway.) A.V. — IX. Sea FearlwoH. E. S. I. 



** Sep., pet., styles and valves usually 5. Stam. 10. Spebgella. 



5. S. saxaHUis (Wimm.) ; centralst. short andbarren, 1. linear ruu- 

 cronate glabrous, st. ped. and cal. glabrous, pet. shorter than caps, 

 longer than the calyx. — Spergida saginoides Sm. — St. prostrate, 

 slightly rooting, many. Ped. long, their tips reflexed afterflower- 

 ing ultimately, erect. Caps, rather longer than the calyx, some- 

 times twice the length. Closely resembling ;S. procti7nbem,]iiiit di- 

 stinguished, by the valves of its capsule being much more nar- 

 rowed upwards, sep. adpressed and narrower, pet. longer, styles 

 not reflexed. — Highland mountains. P. VI. — VIII. S. 



6. S. nivalis (Fries) ; central st. and branches ascending cass- 

 pitose, 1. subulate mucronate glabrous, ped. short straight, sep. 

 very blunt adpressed to the ripe capsules, pet. rather exceeding 

 cal. but falling short of caps, entire. — St. and branches dividing 

 repeatedly (no true rosette), l^lj in. lonij-, not rooting, formiing 

 a dense tuft. Fl. divided in fours or fives. Ped. wholly straight. 



