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15. CARYOPHYLLE.E. 
**** Caps, opening with 6 entire valves of not less than half 
its length, attenuated below, hence the cal. has a funnel- 
shaped base. Larbrea St. Hil. not Ser. 
8. S. uliginosa (Murr.) ; st. diffuse quadrangular glabrous, 1. 
oblong-lanceolate acute with a callous ti]> glabrous slightly cili- 
ated below sessile, fl. irregularly panicled lateral and terminal, 
pet. bipartite shorter than the lanceolate 3-nerved sepals, caps, 
ovate nearly as long as the calyx, bracts scarious with glabrous 
margins. — E. B. 1074. Larbrea R. I. t. 226. L. aquatica St. 
Hil. — Very variable in size, usually about a foot long. Fl. in 
small panicles mostly axillary. On the summits of the Clova 
mountains (3200 feet) it is about 2 in. long, with minute leaves 
and usually solitary flowers. — In damp places. A. V. VI. 
15. Moenchia Ehrh. 
I. M. erecta (Sm.); stam. 4. — E. B. 600. R. 4953. — St. usu- 
ally 2-flowered, erect, glabrous, 1 — 4 in. high. L. opposite, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, rigid. Sep. with broad white membranous 
margins, acute. The whole plant glaucous. — Dry gravelly and 
sandy places. A. V. VI. E. 
16. Malachium Fries. 
I. M. aquaticum (Fr.); st. decumbent and ascending angular 
covered with glandular hairs, 1. cordate-ovate acuminate sessile, 
the lowest one stalked, fl. scattered solitary in the forks of the 
stem, pet. bipartite rather longer than the calyx, caps, longer 
than the calyx. — R. 4967. Cerastium Sm., E. B. 538. Larbrea 
Ser. — Closely resembling Stellaria nemorum. — In wet places. 
P. VII. Vlli. Water Chickweed. 
17. Cerastium ifww. 
* Root fibrous scarcely more than annual. Pet. not longer 
than the calyx. 
t Caps, curved, pet. about as long as the calyx. 
1. C. glomeratum (Thuil.) ; 1. ovate, sej). lanceolate acute with 
a narrow membranous margin and as well as the herbaceous 
bracts hairy throughout, caps, cylindrical ascending twice as long 
as the calyx, fiTiitstalks about as long as the calyx. — Koch in St. 
63. 13. C. vulgatum Sm., E. B. 789. R. 4970. C. viscosum 
Fries, Gaud. — St. erect. Fl. aggregated or in dichotomous pani- 
cles, longer than their stalks. — fi. apetalum ; pet. 0. C. apetalum 
(Dum.) Koch. — Fields and banks. i3. Reigate, Surr. Mr. Borrer. 
A. IV.— IX. 
2. C. triviale (Link) ; I. oblong-lanceolate, sep. oblong-ovate 
bluntish and as well as the bracts membranous at their margins 
