70 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
stigma undivided, capitate. Capsule ovoid or sub-globular, 1-celled 
or imperfectly 2-celled, septicidally dehiscing by 2 valves, with the 
placenta; parietal and sutural. Seeds numerous, very minute. 
Small slender annuals, with the habit of Erythrsea in miniature, 
but with a much shorter corolla-tube, and the parts of the flower 
normally in 4 instead of 5. Flowers yellow or pink, opening in 
sunshine. 
"We find the derivation of the name of this genus of plants given as from cis and 
candeo, to burn within ; thus we have cicindela, a glowworm. 
SPECIES I — C ICENDIA PUSILLA. Griesb. 
Plate DOCCCXI. 
C. i u.silla et C. Candollii, Griesb. in D. C. Prod. Vol. IX. p. 61. 
Stem slender, much branched from the base, and repeatedly 
forked ; branches spreading. Leaves linear, acute. Flowers in a 
very lax dichotomous cyme. Calyx 4-partite ; segments divided 
to the base, strapshaped - subulate, gradually attenuated towards 
the apex. Tube of the corolla rather shorter than the calyx- 
segments; limb of 4 oval-lanceolate mucronate segments about 
half the length of the tube. Capsule cylindrical-fusiform, rather 
shorter than the calyx-segments. 
In damp sandy commons. Very rare. Paradis, Guernsey. 
Channel Islands. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
A minute inconspicuous annual, with numerous much-branched 
spreading stems 1 to 3 inches long, with narrow leaves, somewhat 
resembling those of a Sagina. Plowers solitary, on long slender 
peduncles, from the centre of the forks of the branches, and at 
their apices. Calyx of 4 (more rarely 5) long slender segments, not 
spreading at the apices in the Guernsey plant. Tlowers pink. 
Corolla-lube \ inch long, not glabrous. 
The Guernsey plant has the tips of the calyx-teeth erect as in 
Griesbach's C. Candollii, and the corolla rose-colour; but accord- 
ing to Professors Borcau and Grenier, C. pusilla and C. Candollii 
cannol be separated even as good varieties, the one being merely a 
more developed state of the other. 
Least Cicendia. 
Cerman, L'Uterblalt. 
