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ILLECEBRACE^, 



3. CoRRfoiOLA (Strapwort). — Prostrate, glabrous plants, with 

 scattered leaves with membranous slipules ; flowers minute; sepals 



CORRinioi.A LITTOkAlIS i^Sand Stra/'worf). 



5, green, blunt, united at 



the base, with membranous margins ; 

 ■petals 5, as long as the sepals, white ; 

 staixens c^,siigiims 3, sessile. (Name 

 a diminutive from the Latin eorrigia, 

 a strap, from the shape of the 

 leaves.) 



I. C. liUnrdUs (Sand Strapwort). — 

 A small but pretty plant with slen- 

 der, spreading stems, which lie quite 

 prostrate ;; linear-lanceolate, glau- 

 cous leaves ; and crowded, terminal 

 cymes of small, white fowers. — 

 Sandy shojes, Start Bay, Devon, 

 and Loe Pool, near Helston, Corn- 

 wall ; very rare. — Fl. July — Octo- 

 ber. Annual. 



4. Scler,(nthus (Knawel). — 

 Small, inconspicuous weeds, with 

 wiry, much-branched stems; oppo- 

 site, connate, awl-shaped leaves 

 without stipules ; and small, green 

 flowers in axillary and terminal 

 fascicles ; perianth tubular, 4 — ^- 



cleft, with membranous margins to its segments; stamens i — 10 ; 



ovary superior, i-chambered, i-ovuled ; stigmas 2 — 4 ; fruit 



SCLERAKTIItri AnNUU 

 {A//J//ca/ Knaivcl). 



