﻿of the Salt-water Pools near the Pier at the mouth of the Yare, are all beauti- 

 fully liingeil with this elegant plant : j\ir. Wico.— Sussex ; At Southwick: W. 

 Borrer, Esq. On the rocks, and by the shore at Hastings: Mr. E. Forster, 

 juu. 



Perennial. — Flowers in July and August. 



Root woody, blackish. Stems numerous, forked, round, slightly 

 downy, trailing on the ground, of a reddish colour on the upper 

 side, much branched ; branches leafy, partly ascending. Leaves 

 in little tufts, somewhat glaucous, about a quarter of an inch long, 

 fleshy, egg-shaped, but the margins being rolled back they appear 

 almost cylindrical with a groove underneath, flatted at the base (see 

 fig. 5). Flowers from the ramifications of the stem, and in the 

 middle of a tuft of leaves, partly terminal, solitary, sessile. Calyx 

 with from 5 to 7 ribs and as many teeth, but rarely more than 5. 

 Petals wedge-shaped, flesh-coloured, with a yellow, fleshy nectary 

 at the base of each. Style deeply 3-cleft. 



A very pretty plant, with small delicate flowers, which very 

 much resemble those of a little red pink or champion, to which 

 this plant is nearly allied, though of a very different habit. 



The Natural Order Frankenia'cE/E is composed of elegant 

 little herbaceous plants, undershrubs, or shrubs, with branching 

 stems, and opposite, exstipulate leaves, with a membranous sheath- 

 ing base; often revolute at the margin. The flowers are either 

 white, rose-coloured, or yellow, axillary or terminal ; when they are 

 axillary the peduncles are 1 -flowered ; when they are terminal they 

 are either disposed in corymbs or loose racemes. The pedicles are 

 always accompanied by a leaf or bractea. The calyx (tig. 1.) con- 

 sists of 4 or 5 upright or spreading sepals, united at the base into 

 a furrowed tube, or cleft to the base, permanent, equal. The petals 

 (fig. 2.) are hypogynous, equal in number to the sepals, and alter- 

 nate with them, unguiculate (clawed), with appendages at the base 

 of the limb. The stamens (fig. 3.) are hypogynous, either equal 

 in number to the petals, and alternate with them, or having a ten- 

 dency to double the number. The anthers are roundish, and 

 versatile. The ovary is superior ; and the style simple, and 2- or 



3- cleft. The capsule is 1-celled, enclosed in the calyx, 2-, 3-, or 



4- valved, and many-seeded ; with a septicidal dehiscence. The 

 seeds are very minute, and are attached to the margins of the 

 valves. The embryo is straight in the middle of the albumen, 

 with a short radicle pointing towards the umbilicus, and flat, leafy 

 cotyledons. 



This order is distinguished from Caryophy'lle.e by the fruit 

 not having a central separate placenta, but bearing the seeds on the 

 inner margin of the valves. — See Lind. Syn. and Don's Gen. Syst. 

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