MILKWORT FAMIIY 



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and small; zvtii^-sepa/s broad, \\\\\i the principal veins with few 

 branches between them. -Common on heaths. 



4. F. cakdrea (Chalk Milkwort). — Leaves tufted, the lower ones 

 large and fleshy, obovate ; flowering-branches axillary ; flowers 

 large ; wing-sepals broad, with prominent central vein united near 

 its middle with the branched lateral ones. — Chalk downs, chiefly 

 in the south-east of England. — Fl. May. Perennial. 



5. F. anidra, found in Kent and Surrey, has also its leaves in a 



roLYGALA VULGARIS {Coimuon Milkzvort). 



rosette and fleshy; but \i^ flowers are very small, distant, pinki^h 

 or pure white ; its wing-sepals narrow, linear-oblong ; and it is 

 only two or three inches high. 



6. P. uliginbsa, found on Cronkly Fell, Yorkshire, has larger 

 and more compactly grouped blue flowers. 



Ord. XL Frankeniace.'e. — The Sea-Heath Family 



Herbaceous or somewhat shrubby plants with branched stems, 

 whorled exstipulate leaves with a membranous sheathing base, 

 and numerous small axillary polysymmetric flowers. Sepals, 

 petals, and stamens 4 — 6 each, the sepals united and persistent, 

 the petals with claws and ligules ; carpels 2 — 5 : oi^ary i-cham- 

 bered ; ovules many, parietal ; capsule 2— 5-valved. The species 



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