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gg ng | Inflorescence | Disk ghia Sons: Seeds 
age capsule 
ARENARIA L. | | did or Terminal, Perigynous | | Ovaey a Numerous, 
| perennial: rarely axil- or subhy- ed, many-| reniform or 
bo ee lary. pogynous. | ovuled; Bi "| eon pelal 
lea i beer with the hi- 
le fleshy t tip | lum margi- 
| | as 3 cleft | nal, estrophi- 
| or notched | olate. 
| | bassin 
MInvARTIA eo above. | As above. been’ As above, | Asabove. — 
L.= ALSINE _perigynous, but valves 
Wahlenb., _more or less of capsule 
not L 'glandular- entire. 
| lobed. 
AmMOoDENIA Succulent | Flowers ax- Well devel- Ovary more | Few, py 
Gmel.= perennial _ illary or in oped, with or less com- | form or obo- 
Honxenya with fleshy | leafy cymes. 10 glandu-_ ‘pletely 3- or | void, with the 
Ehrh. leaves. ‘lar lobes.  5-celled (1-| hilum © 
celled ac- | quely _ basal, 
cording to _ estrophiolate. 
Pax); cap- 
sule fleshy 
or bladdery, 
ith 3 5 
entire valves. 
Dan a 
Moesrrnata | Flaccid Terminal, | Well devel- | Ovary I-cell- | Seeds renr 
L herbs with often be- | oped, near-| ed (but in | form, lus- 
spreading coming lat-|ly hypogy-| M. __lateri-| trous, st 
usually flat eral by nous. flora _dis- | phiolate. 
ves longation tinetly 2, 3, 
of axillary or 4-celled); 
branches, valves of 
“or axillary. capsule twice} 
as many as 
the style. 
oe 
Mercxia eo to As Ammo- | Obscure or | Ovary 3-5- | Seeds ge 
Fischer ia  denia very nar- | celled; cap- | trous, gould 
fae less row. ule = 
fleshy. dery, mem- 
‘anaceous 




