15. MALVACE^. 63 



Seeds reddish. Pet. pak pink. Stam. 10.— JIuddy salt marshes. 

 P. VI.— IX. E. S. I. 



19. Sper'gula lAnn. Spurry. 



1. Si ane>i'sis(L.); I. linea-v convex above fwrowed beneath, &. 

 in forked panicles, fr. -stalks deflexed, seeds slightly compressed 

 with a narrow margin tubercled or papillose. — St. 6 — 12 in. 

 high. L. long, slender. Seeds black. — a. S. arvensis (R.) ; 

 seeds covered with niinute elevated points. — ^.^8. vulgaris 

 (Boeningh.; ; seeds covered with white or brown" clubshaped 

 papiUffi.— Cultivated land. A. VI.— VIII. E. S. I. 



[S. pentandra (L.). Said to have been found in Ireland by 

 Sherai'd. It was probably Zep. negleotum.'] 



Sutorder IV. ScleranthecB. 



20. ScLEKAN-'iHtTS iiftw. KnapweH. 



1. S. an'nuus (L.) ; subdeoandrous, segments of the calyx ot 

 the fr. patent acute with a very narrow membranous margin, 

 as long as their tube. Styles longer ' than the stamens. St. 

 repeatedly dichotoinous, green. ^ Fl. green, often solitary in the 

 forks of the stem, or densely corymbose. — Sandy fields. A. VT. 



— vni. E. s.i. 



2. 8. peren'nis (L.) ; decandrous, segments of the calyx of the 

 fr. connivent blunt rounded with a blunt membranous margin. 

 ■ — Styles usually shorter than the stamens. St. nearly simple 

 or irregulg-rly branched, procumbent, glaucous, at length red- 

 dish. Fl,, variegated with green and 'white. L. erect, directed 

 to one side. — Sandy fields in Norfolk and Suffolk. Stanner 

 rocks, Eadnorshire. P. VI. — VIII. E. 



Order XV. MALVACE^. 



Sep. 5 or 3 or 4, more or less connected below, often dpjlble^ 

 valvate in the bud. Pet. as many as the sepals, adnate to base 

 of stam., twisted in the bud. Stam. many,, connected at the 

 base into a tube; anth. 1 -celled, reniform, bursting transversely. 

 Ovary formed by the union of several cai-pels round a common 

 axis. Oarp. 1- or many-seeded. Embryo curved with twisted 

 or doubled cotyledons, albumen variable in quantity. — L. alter- 

 nate, with stipules. Jl. axUlaryi ; 



