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nous ring. Stigmas 2. Fr, 1-seeded, furrowed, bursting 
along the 5 furrows. 
Tribe U1. SPERGULEA.. Caps. 1-celled, 3—5-valved, many- 
seeded. 
4. Potycarron. Sep. keeled on the back, hooded at the 
end. Pet. 5, emarginate. Stam. 3—5. Styles 3, short. 
Fr. 1-celled, 3-valved, many-seeded. 
5. Lericonum. Sep. 5, flattish. Pet. 5, entire, as long as 
the calyx. Stam.5—10. Styles 3 or 5. Fr. 3—5-valved, 
many-seeded ; valves fewer than or alternate with the sepals, 
6. Spercuua. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, entire, as long as the calyx. 
Stam. 5—10. Styles 5. Fr. 5-valved, many-seeded ; valves 
opposite the sepals. 
** Without stipules, sep. tubular below. 
Tribe IIT. SCLERANTHE. Caps. l-seeded, inclosed in the 
hardened cal.-tube. 
7. Screrantuus. Tube of the cal. urceolate, contracted at 
the mouth by a glandular ring ; limb 5-fid. Pet.0. Stam. 
10 rarely 5, inserted in the throat of the calyx. Styles 2. 
Fr. membranous.—G. F. G. Monochl. 77. 
Tribe I. Paronychiacea. 
1.- CorricioLa Linn. 
1. C. littoralis (L.); st. leafy amongst the flowers.—JH. B. 
668.—F1. stalked, white, small, in small clusters. Stem-l. ob- 
long, narrow below. St. numerous from the crown of the root, 
rostrate, slender.—Sandy shores. Slapton Sands and near the 
tart Point, Devon. Helston, Cornwall. A. VII. VIII. E. 
2. Herniaria Linn. 
1. H. glabra (L.); st. herbaceous prostrate clothed with mi- 
nute decurved hairs, 1. oval-oblong, clusters of sessile fl. axillary 
coalescing on the lateral branches into a slightly leafy spike — 
E. B.206.—S8t. procumbent or subterranean, rooting extensively. 
Lateral branches resembling leafy spikes from the dense aggre- 
gation of the clusters. Cal. glabrous or with a very few hairs. 
L. glabrous.—f. subciliata (Bab.); 1. more or less ciliated. 
Quite distinct from the following,—Very rare. Suffolk. Ruan 
Minor, Corn. Wilsford, Lincoln. West of Kerry. P. ne 
2. H. ciliata (Bab.); st. herbaceous prostrate clothed with 
minute decurved hairs, 1. orbicular-ovate ciliated, clusters of ses- 
