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3. Paronychia. Sep. not col. or thickened , but slightly 
hooded and distinctly awned or mucronate. Pet. 0 or 5 
linear. Stam. 5 or less. Style 1 distinct, stigma notched. 
Caps. 1-celled indehiscent. Embryo annular. 
Tribe II. SCLERANTHEM . 
Caps. 1-seeded 1-celled indehiscent. Cal. A-h-Jid with a dis- 
tinct urceolate or campanulate tube hardened infr. Styles 2 or 
1 distinct. Stam. perigynous rarely hypogynous. — L< opposite 
connate without stip. 
4. Scleranthus. Cal. 5-fid, tube urceolate contracted at 
the mouth. Pet. 0 or 5 filiform. Stam. 5-10 perigynous 
inserted in the throat of cal. Styles 2 distinct. 
Tribe III. POL Y CARPE2E. 
Caps, many-seeded 1-celled 3(-5)-valved. Cal. 5-partite, 
deeply divided almost or quite tubeless, persistent but un- 
changed in fr. Style 1, stigmas 3 or 2 (or styles 3-5). Stam. 
hypogynous. — L. opposite or wliorled with membranous stip. 
5. Polycarpon. Sep. keeled at the back, hooded at the tip. 
Pet. 5 notched. Stam. 3-5 or 1. Style 1 very short, 
stigmas 3. Caps. 3-valved. — L. broad often wliorled in 
fours. 
Here also perhaps belong Lepigonum Fr. ( Spergularia Pers.) and 
Spergula L., supra in Caryophyllace/e, p. 56 ; and I have 
modified (in brackets) the tribal char, accordingly. Professor 
Babington has satisfied me that I was wrong 1. c. in adopting 
the name Spergularia instead of Lepigonum Fr. ; the former 
being used by Persoon only sectionally or for a mere group 
(in his idea) of Spergula, and having thus no prior claim as a 
generic appellation over Lepigonum Fr. 
Tribe I. Illecebrece. 
1. Herniaria L. 
1. II. FLAVESCENS Lowe. 
Ann. herb, densely hirsute-pubescent light y.-gr. ; branches 
liai'd stifi' slender wiry regularly distichous, altogether prostrate 
or flatly cespitose, thickly and shortly furry or velvety-pubes- 
cent ; 1. oblong-lanceolate, bristly on one or both sides and 
ciliate at the edges ; fl. and fr. sessile in dense crowded many- 
fld. axillary fascicles or clusters, confluent into oblong leafy 
spikes on the side-branches ; fr. thickly and equably echinate- 
setose. — Novit. 21 or 543. II. liirsuta WB. ! i. 1G7 (not Linn.). 
