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MONOECIA MONADELPHlA. 
> 7. Cordifolia. 
E. humifusa, ramo- 
sissima, glabra; foliis 
parvulis, oppositis, la- 
to-ovalibus, integerri- 
mis, basi cordatis; flo- 
ribus axillaribus, soli- 
tariis. 
Procumbent, branch- 
ing, glabrous; leaves 
small, opposite, broad- 
oval, entire, cordate at 
base; flowers axillary, 
solitary. 
Plant annual. Stem prostrate, 8 to 15 inches long, very glabrous, bran- 
ches alternate. Leaves on petioles scarcely a line long, oval, entire, glab- 
rous, unequal and cordate at base, generally 3 — 4 lines long. Flowers soli- 
tary, axillary, on pedicells about half as long as the leaves, surrounded at 
base with incised almost feathered stipules; petalloid segments of the invo- 
lucrum white. 
Grows in cultivated land, common around Beaufort in dry soils. 
Flowers in the summer. 
8. POLYGONIFOLIA. Lin. 
E. humifusa, ramo- 
sa, glaberrima, carno- 
sa; foliis oblongo-ova- 
tis, ovalibusque, inte- 
gerritnis, basi obtusis 
interdum sub-cordatis; 
floribus solitariis in di- 
chotomia caulis; stipu- 
lis simplicibus. E. 
Procumbent,branch- 
ing, very glabrous, 
succulent; leaves ob- 
long-ovate and oval, 
entire, obtuse at base, 
sometimes slightly cor- 
date; flowers solitary 
in the division of the 
stem; stipules simple. 
Sp. pi. 2. p. 900. Walt. p. 145. Purs!), 2. p. 606? Nutt. 2. p. 22 7 - 
In many respects resembling the preceding species, but from its habitat 
more succulent, its leaves also are longer, more ovate, on longer petioles, 
more crowded near the summit of the branches, and less cordate, the flowers 
on shorter peduncles, and the petaloid segments of the involucrum uncolour- 
ed. The stipules which in the former species are many cleft, in this are su- 
bulate, simple, or sometimes one has a single division. 
Grows on the drifting sands of the sea-shore, frequently covered with sand 
excepting the extremities of the branches. This appears to be the real E. 
