Plate 38. 
I ANNUAL 
I RNAWEp 
fruit 
magnified 
THE HN0T-6RASS FAMILY, f ORDER LXi. ILLECEBRACE/E orPARONYCHIACET) • 
CA1YX of usually 5 SEPALS , rarely 4 or 5, united, at the base only or into a tube, and separ- 
ating into the same number of lobes, remaining with and closing over the fruit, insert- 
ed below the seedcase or partially adhering to it. 
COROLLA of 5, rarely 4 or 5, minute PETALS, the same number as the sepals, often re- 
duced to small thread-like filaments,orabsent,inserted below the seedcase (peri gynous) 
STAMENS 5, rarely 4 or 3, the same number as the sepals, inserted between the petals 
round the seedcase (peri gynous a 
PISTIL of 2 or 3 CARPELS, uni ted into a i-celled seedcase crowned with 2 or 3 styles & 
stigmas, or without styles and with the stigmas situated directly on the seedcase. 
FRUIT a i-cdLed,i -seeded capsule , opening from the top by 3 valves or decaying to 
free the seeds. 
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flowers magnified 
SCLERAKTHV5 
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' HAIRY 
RUPTURE -WORT, 
HERN1ARIA 
HiRSUTA.' - ' • 
STEMS usually procumbent,often woody 
at the base . 
EAVES stalkless (sessile), usually opposite 
and entire, rarely alternate, usual- 
ly with membranous stipules. 
FLOWERS minute Sivery unnotice- 
able, in clusters terminating the 
stems, or in the axils of the leaves, 
or rarely solitary. 
DISTINGUISHED BY the 
minute unnoticeable 
flowers usually without 
petals or with imperfect 
petals and by the i-secded 
capsule. 
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