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11. CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 
of the old Fort at the top of P. de Castello in Porto Santo ; a and 
/3 intermixed on the terrace in front of the church-door of N. 
S. de Livramento in the Curral das Freiras, Mad. March- July. 
— A small inconspicuous pi. only 2 or 3 in. high, pale dull gr. 
and very distinct in its more delicate light bushy sparingly 
leafy habit, like Radiola millegrana L., and regularly forked 
branches, from S. procunibens L. Sep. obtuse, the 2 outer sub- 
mucronulate. L. not uniformly ciliate ; in /3 not at all so. 
Pet. w. very minute, sometimes none. Sep. spreading cross- 
wise below the ripe caps. 
5. Spergula L. 
1. S. ARYENSIS L. 
L. somewhat fleshy linear-filiform convex above channelled 
or grooved beneath blunt at the tip ; fl. in forked glandular- 
pubescent cymes ; sep. ovate and with the deflexed fruit-stalks 
glandular-pubescent ; pet. slightly longer than the sep. ; seeds 
dull coal-black spheroidal-lenticular or strongly doubly-convex 
and subglobose, simply carinate with a narrow raised keel or 
margin, not winged, finely and obsoletelv granulated or papil- 
lose. — Desf. i. 368 ; Brot. ii. 214 ; EB. t. 1535 ; DC. i. 394 ; 
Presl 159; WB. ! i. 146 1; Koch 120; Bab. (ed. 1)46, (ed. 4) 
124. S. arvensis a, Sm. E. Fl. ii. 336. 
/3. vulgaris Koch, Bab. 11. cc. ; seeds frosted "with white or pale 
brown clavate warts or pap ill*. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2 ; 
Cornfields at Camaxa, S. Vicente, and between Feijaa d’Ovelha 
and P ta de Pargo ; bed of the Bib. de Maxico, &c. Oct.- June. 
— St. loosely spreading 6-12 in. long ; 1. imperfectly whorled or 
fascicled at the joints, linear-sub ulate rather obtuse fleshy 
flaccid 1-1 \ in. long. Branches of cyme pedic. and sep. always 
more or less glandular-pubescent. Pet. white a little longer 
than the sep. Stam. 4-10, often 5. Styles always 5. Caps, 
always distinctly 5-valved. Seeds dull coal-black not shining, 
frosted with pale yellowish deciduous bristly warts like grains 
of sand, lenticular-globose or tumid-lenticular subangular, with 
an equatorial distinct keel, which is sometimes broader and 
thinner than usual and with a pale edge, but never at all winged. 
6. Spergularia Pcrs. 
1. S. fallax Lowe. 
Altogether smooth ; 1. somewhat fleshy linear-filiform flattish 
and slightly grooved towards the base above, convex or flat- 
tened beneath, blunt at the tip; sep. lanceolate and with the 
deflexed fruitstalks wholly smooth ; pet. lanceolate as long as 
t Bourgenu’s no. 334 in BII. is the present pi. His no. 334 in 
B1I. is Spergularia fallax. (See Hook. Journ. Bot. viii. 290.) 
