877 



(1) P. HUMiEusuM. (Delile.) 



' Jdent. Del. flor. Mg. p. 1.48.— Dec. prod. X. p. 422. 



J Syn. Hedyotistnaritima, Zw«. fl.Suppl. — Oldenlandia raaritU 

 pia, iZoife.— ^Paederota cochlearifolia, Koen. — Microcarpaea cochle- 

 srifolia, Smith. 



Mtigrav. Sm. in Bot. Misc. III. Suppl. t. 29. 



,, Spec. Char. , Creeping,, much br.anched,, quite glabrous: leaves 

 ppposite, spathulate or obovate, thickish, fleshy, quite entire, nerve- 

 less, n;arroweKl at the base into the pe(tiqle : flowers sessile in the 

 axils or short pedicelled, solitary, opposite. 



Peninsula, in moist watery places. 



GENUS XIX. . GLOSSdSTIGMA. 



Diandria IMonoKynia. Sex: Syst-. 



> Deriv. iVom Glossa,,a, tongue, and Stigma ; in allusion to the 

 shape of the latter organ. 



I Gen. Chae. Calyx campanulate, short, very obtusely 3-lobed, 

 posterior lobe very broad, sometimes .2-5-topthed : corolla small, 

 limb 6-cleft : stamens 2 or 4 : cells of the anthers parallel, con- 

 fluent, at the apex : style spathnlately dilated at the apex, shortly 

 bilamellate : capsule subglobose, loculicidally 2-valved, valves 

 septiferous in the middle, exposing- 4n entire placentiferous co- 

 lumn. 



(1) G. SPATHULATUM. (Am.) 



• Ident, Arn. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. V. 18. pars. I. p. 355. — 

 Dec. prod. X. p. 526. 



., , Syn.., Limosella diandra, Linn. Mant. — Microc^rpeea spathulata, 

 ■ Hook. Bot, Misc. p. 101. §- f. 4. — Paederota minima, Retz. 



.: Setc. Char. Cespitose, creeping : stems stoloniferous and rooti 

 ing at the nodesi leaves fascicled, linear-spathuiate, entire, , very, 

 ^mall : pedicels solitary in the axils of the leaves : calyx and corol- 

 la very small. 



Margins uf tanks and other moist places. 



GENUS XX. MICEOCARP^J]A. 



Uiandria llEoiiog^ynla. Sex: Sysi: 



>-v • ■• ; ,1. . ■;■.•■." '.•;• 



vfieriv. .From Micros^ small, and Karros, fruit; in allusion to 

 the capsules. 



