76 CARYOPHYLLACE^.^LiNACE^. [Arenaria. 



red ; pollen of white pellucid globules. Styles 3, nearly erect ; ovarium subglo- 

 bose, with 6 greenish ribs. Capsule thin, conical, obtuse, opening with 6 teeth, 

 6-ribbed. Seeds several, brownish, reniform, covered with warty granulations. 



** Leaves stipulate. 



3. A. rubra, L. Purple Sandwort. Purple Spurrey. " Stems 

 prostrate, leaves narrow linear acute plane scarcely fleshy tipped 

 with a short bristle, stipules ovate cloven, capsule as long as the 

 calyx, seeds compressed angular roughish." — Br. Fl. E.B.i. 

 852. Spergularia, St. Hil. : Br. Fl. p. 144. Alsiue, Wahl. 



In dry gravelly or sandy fields and pastures, on walls, clifls, ledges of rocks 

 and waste ground ; common. Fl. June — September. 0. or if.. ? 



E. Med. — Abundant on Royal Heath. Profusely on rocky ledges behind Bon- 

 church, with Ciithmuni maritimura. About Sandown, plentifully, Mr. Snooke. 

 Common on Bleak Down. 



W. Med. — Chalk cliffs at Freshwater Gate. Near the Debbourn farm. Miss G. 

 Kilderhee ! 



The plant in maritime situations preserves its character as regards the shape 

 and roughness of the seeds, length of capsule and aristate leaves, but the latter 

 are semicylindrical beneath or nearly so, the herb very much branched, forming 

 dense tufts, the root thick (perennial ?), and as well as the base of the stems sub- 

 ligneous. This form accords with the description of A. macrorhiza, Reg. in Ber- 

 tol. Fl. Ital. iv. p. 687. A. rubra y. macrorhiza, Moris. Fl. Sard. i. p. 278. A. 

 media /3. macrorhiza, DC. in Duby, Syn. ii. p. 1025, and which Moris very judi- 

 ciously considers a mere variety, assigning very sufBcient reasons for his opinion. 



4. A. marina, Sm. Sea Spurrey. " Stems prostrate, leaves 

 semicylindrical fleshy usually with a short point, stipules ovate 

 cloven, capsule longer than the calyx, seeds compressed." — Br. 

 Fl. Spergularia, Camb. : Br. Fl. p. 45. E. B. t. 958. Arenaria 

 media, L. Alsine, M. et K. 



In salt-marshes and on waste ground near the sea ; rery common. Fl. June — 

 August. 0. 



Order XIV. LINAGES, DC. 



" Sepals 4 — 5, imbricated in sestivation, persistent. Petals 

 4 — 5, with a twisted testivation, very fugacious. Stamens 4 — 5, 

 united at the base into an hypogynous ring, with smaU teeth 

 (abortive stamens) between them. Ovary with 3^5 cells, and as 

 many styles. Stigmas capitate. Capsule globose, crowned with 

 the permanent base of the styles, 3 — 5 celled ; each cell partially 

 divided into 2 by a spurious dissepiment, and opening with 3 

 valves at the apex. Seeds 1 in each spurious cell, inverted. 

 Embryo straight, large, tliin, with little or no albumen. — Mostly 

 herbs, ivith entire leaves and without stipules." — Br. Fl. 



