406 illecebrAce*: 



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

 scattered leaves with membranous stipules ; flowers minute ; sepals 



coRWGfoLA littorAlis (Sand Strapwort). 



5, green, blunt, united at the base, with membranous margins; 

 petals 5, as long as the sepals, white ; 

 stamens 5, stigmas 3, sessile. (Name 

 a diminutive from the Latin corrigia, 

 a strap, from the shape of the 

 leaves.) 



1. C. littordlis (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 flowers. — 

 Sandy shores, Start Bay, Devon, 

 and Loe Pool, near Helston, Corn- 

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

 ber. Annual. 



4. Scleranthus (Knawel). — 

 Small, inconspicuous weeds, with 

 wiry, much-branched stems; oppo- 

 site, connate, awl-shaped leaves 

 without stipules ; and small, green 

 S ( L ^w H ^iS US #*?" in axillary and terminal 



fascicles ; perianth tubular, 4 — 5- 

 cleft, with membranous margins to its segments; stamens 1 — 10 ; 

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



