THE PINK FAMILY 
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SANDWORT-SPURREY. (BUDA, ADANS.) — Flowers small, pink or lilac, in loose, forked 
terminal clusters (dichotomous cymes). Sepals 5, free; petals 5, entire, rarely o; stamens 10, 
sometimes fewer ; carpels 3, rarely 5, uniting into a i-celled seedcase and separating into 3 or 
rarely 5 styles. Fruit an oval, many-seeded capsule, opening from top to base by as many teeth as 
there are styles. Herbs with opposite, thread-like, often fleshy leaves, which are separated by 
membranous stipules, and often have clusters of smaller leaves in their axils, and stems swollen at 
the joints (nodes). 
Field Sandwort-Spurrey. (Buda rubra, Dum)— As just described. Flowers £ inch 
across, rose-pink, in terminal forked clusters ; the sepals, which have gland-tipped hairs and 
a broad white membranous border, being as long as the petals and the egg-shaped capsule 
and the stamens 4-10 in number. Stems 3-8 inches long, branched from the base, prostrate 
and downy with gland-tipped hairs ; the leaves small, inch long, narrow, and thread-like ) 
fleshy, and tapering to a point ; and the stipules silvery-white, lance-shaped and torn. The whole 
plant is of a dull green. [Plate 25. 
Not uncommon in dry, sandy places. June — September. Annual. 
Seaside Sandwort-Spurrey. (Buda marina, Dum.)— A very similar species to the last, 
differing in having paler pink flowers, the capsule rather longer than the sepals, the stems 
and leaves thicker and more fleshy, and the stipules united, broader, shorter, and usually entire. 
Not uncommon in sandy and muddy places near the sea. June — September. Annual. 
Greater Seaside Sandwort-Spurrey. (Buda media, Dum.)— A similar species to the 
Seaside Sandwort-Spurrey (Buda marina), with larger white or lilac flowers £ inch across, the sepals 
as long as the petals, the stamens always ro, the capsule twice as long as the sepals, and the whole 
plant larger and stronger, without hairs and with dull, whitish, entire stipules. 
Not uncommon in salt marshes and muddy places by the sea. June — September. Perennial. 
Rock Seaside Sandwort-Spurrey. (Buda rupestris, Sebel.)— A very similar plant to 
the last, with rather rosier flowers, the sepals as long as the capsule, the flower-stalks, stems, and sepals 
covered with gland-tipped hairs, the leaves oftener with clusters of smaller leaves in their axils, and 
the stipules silvery-white. 
Rare. On rocks by the sea. June — September. Perennial. 
ALL-SEED. (POLYCARPON, LOEFL.) — Flowers very small and numerous, in dense terminal 
forked clusters (dichotomous cymes). Sepals 5, free; petals 5, very minute ; stamens 3-5 ; carpels 
3, united into a i-celled seedcase and separating into 3 styles. Fruit an oval, many-seeded capsule 
opening from top to base by 3 teeth. Small annual herbs with leaves in opposite pairs, sometimes 
crowded in circles at each joint (whorls), and stems swollen at the joints (nodes). 
Four-leaved All-Seed. (Polycarpon tetraphyllum, Linn.) The only British species 
(as just described). Flowers minute, £ inch across, numerous, in loose, terminal, forked clusters 
(dichotomous cymes). Stems 3-6 inches long, much branched and smooth. Leaves \ inch long 
or less, oval, opposite, 2 pairs together, one at right angles with the other so as to appear 4 together 
in a circle (whorl). 
Very rare. Sandy places in Cornwall, Devon, and Dorset. Very common in the Channel Isles. 
June — July. Annual. 
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