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the sep. ; seeds shining coal-black flattened lenticular finely and 
sharply granulate bordered with a broad membranous radiato- 
plicate wing or frill. — Hook. Joum. Bot. viii. 289, 290; ix. 75. 
Spergula pentandra WB. ! i. 145 (not Linn. !) ; Bom’g. ! PL 
Canar. no. 410 in BH., partly; Hook. fil. and Thoms. ! Herb. 
Ind. Or. in HH. ; Griff. ! Affghan. Exs. no. 1629 in HH. Sper- 
gularia ? (595) Stocks ! Scinde, in HH. Spergula pentandra 
var. intermedia Boiss. ! PI. Or, nov. Ser. 2. 93, 94. Spergula 
arvensis Bourg. ! PI. Canar. exs. no. 334 in BH. (not Linn. ). 
Arenaria flaccida Roxb. FI. Ind. ii. 447. — Herb. ann. Mad. PS. 
and ND. reg. 1, SD. reg. 1, 2 ; r. or -i, locally c. Sea-cliffs a 
little to the E. of Funchal and cornfields about the t Brazen 
Head ; roadsides and borders of cornfields towards Pico d’Anna 
Ferreira in PS. ; at the top of N. and SD. March-July. — Habit 
and stature of Spergula arvensis L. but a more delicate pi. in all 
its parts, and always altogether smooth. L. slightly Battened 
above and beneath, obsoletely channelled above. FI. similar but 
smaller, with the sep. more lanceolate than ovate and narrower, 
of a fresher more vivid green contrasting more with the narrow 
white membranous edges. Pet. lanceolate clawed not longer 
than the cal. white. Stam. 6 or 7. Styles and valves of the 
caps, always 3. Seeds intense coal-black shining as if polished. 
— At once distinguishable from Spergula arvensis L. by the con- 
stantly 3-valved instead of 5-valved caps., the perfectly smooth 
pedicels and sep., and broadly winged seeds. 
The true Spergula pentandra L. by the original types from 
Lofling in the Linn. Herb, has also smooth-stalked cymes 
and sep., but is a much smaller pi. with larger fh especially in 
bud, broader ovate sep. broadly edged with violet-purple, and 
pet. a little longer than the sep. The caps, are immature ; but 
in the largest of the specimens on a separate sheet, 5 or 6 in. 
high, the caps, is truly 5-valvular, being partially split into 4 
distinct valves, one of which is twice the breadth of the others 
and has manifest traces of a 5th medial suture. The smaller 
specimens on the other sheet, f— 1 in. high, are marked u Hab. 
Madriti in collibus vulg.” ; and though ambiguous as to their 
capsular valvation, agree precisely otherwise with 6 specimens 
in BII. of u S. pentandra L.” marked “ 1. Hispania C. G. Or- 
tega M.D. 1777,” and with another marked “IT. L. Ilab. prope 
Madritum, Lofling,” which have a distinctly 5-valved caps. 
Thus Spergularia fallax seems to be no less distinct from the 
true Linnaean Spanish pi. (S. pentandra L.) of Lofling and Or- 
tega, with which it agrees in its entire freedom from glandular 
pubescence, than from Spergula arvensis L. 
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