﻿with minute pellucid glands. Leaves rather succulent, inversel 

 egg-shaped, entire, dark green, smooth, on short leaf-stalks, 2 pah 

 together, crossing each other, so as to resemble a whorl. Stipula a 

 opposite, membranous, pointed, jagged. Flowers numerous, small; 

 in terminal panicles, which are several times forked, with a pai 

 of pointed, membranous bracteas at each division. Sepals (se 

 fig. 1.) somewhat boat-shaped, sharp pointed, green, with whit 

 membranous margins ; keeled, the keel furnished with pellucic 

 glandular teeth. Corolla white ; petals nearly strap-shaped, ver 

 slightly notched at the summit. Valves of the capsule spear 

 shaped, turned in at the margins (see fig. 6). 



Mr. Woodward observes, that it alters its habit so much by 

 cultivation, as hardly to be known at first sight. I have never seen 

 a wild specimen ; the accompanying figure was made from a plant 

 in the Oxford Garden, where it has established itself on the border? 

 and walks, near an old Hot-house on the outside of the Garder, 

 walls. 



iLLECEBREiE. — This Order consists chiefly of small insigni- 

 ficant, herbaceous, or half-shrubby branching plants, with opposite 

 or alternate leaves, and membranous stipules . The flowers are 

 minute, with scarious bracteas ; the calyx is composed of 5, seldom 

 of only 3 or 4, sepals, which are either distinct, or more or less 

 united. The petals, which are very small, are inserted upon the 

 calyx between the lobes, these are sometimes wanting. The stamens 

 are perigynous *, and exactly opposite the sepals, if equal to them 

 in number, but they are sometimes fewer by abortion (see fig. 2.) ; 

 the filaments are distinct ; and the anthers 2-celled. The ovary 

 is superior, with 2 or 3 styles, which are either distinct or partially 

 combined. The fruit is small, dry, and 1-celled ; and is either 

 indehiscent, or opens with 3 valves (fig. 5.) . The seeds are either 

 numerous, fixed to a free central placenta, or solitary and pendu- 

 lous from a funiclef, arising from the base of the cavity of the 

 fruit. The albumen is farinaceous ; the embryo cylindrical, lying 

 on one side of the albumen, and curved, more or less, with the ra- 

 dicle always pointing towards the hilum. Cotyledons small. — 

 See Lindl. Syn. p. 60. 



“ Ye are the stars of earth, — anil deat to me 

 Is each small twinkling gem that wanders free 

 ’Mid glade or woodland, or by murin’ ring stream, 



For ye to me are more than sweet or fair, 



1 love ye for the mem’ries that ye bear 

 Of by-gone hours, whose bliss was but a dream.” 



L. A. Twamley. 



* Inserted in the cal y x , or in the disk which adheres to the calyx, 

 t A little stalk, by which the seed is attached to the placenta. 



