Sagina.~\ xiv. caryopiiyllacea; : alsineoE. 
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Dry gravelly places, and walls, &c., frequent ; sometimes upon the 
sea-shore. Rare in Scotland. Q. 5 — 9. — More slender than 
S. procumbent, and annual ; leaves narrower, more bristle-pointed, 
more glaucous and slightly hairy at the margins, sometimes glabrous. 
Petals always present, obcordate, or wedge-shaped and truncated. 
2. S. cilidta Fries (ciliated P.) ; annual, stem erect or ascend- 
ing, leaves aristate glabrous or fringed, “ petals none,” sepals of 
the fruit erect or close-pressed to the capsule, 2 outer ones 
mucronate or aristate. 
Dry gravelly places and walls, probably frequent in England. 
Near Edinburgh ; under the stone table on the summit of Kinnoul 
Hill, and bv the road-side to Dundee, near Perth. ©. 5 — 9. — We 
introduce this species with much hesitation as distinct from S. apetala, 
the only certain difference consisting in the direction of the sepals 
when in fruit. The plant is stated to be nearly glabrous ; but our 
Scotch specimens (and we have seen specimens only from Scotland) 
are quite as hairy as the S. apetala; the outer sepals are usually 
more decidedly mucronate, or even aristate ; but as the leaves are 
also rather more aristate, such a structure of sepals is a natural conse- 
quence. There are said to be no petals in this and the next ; still as 
the normal state of the genus is to possess petals, it is probable that 
forms of all the legitimate species occasionally occur with them. 
3. S. maritima Don (Sea P.) ; annual glabrous, stents erect 
or procumbent only at the base, leaves fleshy obtuse or with a 
short apiculus, “ petals none,” sepals 4 roundish-ovate about as 
long as the capsule erect in fruit. E. B. t. 2195. 
Sea-coast not unfrequent, chiefly in places occasionally overflowed. 
0. 5 — 9. — Quite glabrous. Calyx blunt, longer, or sometimes 
shorter than the capsule, sepals erect and close pressed to the fruit. 
Leaves “ rounded at the back ; ” Mr. W. Wilson. This species ap- 
pears distinct and well-marked, it has a reddish or purplish tinge, 
especially on the stems and leaves ; but we are sometimes inclined to 
doubt if the difference between it and the two preceding may not 
arise from the place of growth, and if so, they might be judiciously 
combined. 
4. S. procumbens L. (procumbent P.) ; perennial usually gla- 
brous, stems procumbent, central one very short, leaves mu- 
cronate, sepals 4 or rarely 5 much longer than the petals 
spreading in fruit, styles reflexed during flowering. E. B. 
t. 880. 
Waste places, and dry pastures everywhere, and at all elevations. 
TJ.. 5 — 9. — The central stein is very short, erect, and without flowers, 
lateral ones spreading, 2 — 4 inches long, and often sending out roots 
from different parts at the insertion of the leaves, and these throwing 
up new plants. In some situations it grows amongst & subulata, and 
in others amongst 5. saxatilis, from both of which it is with difficulty 
distinguished. Leaves linear-subulate, connate, with membranous 
margins at the base, tipped with a short pellucid point or rnucro 
