Murarthuria. 
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terminal. Floral leaves on bracts very small, mostly opposite or nearly so. 
Calyx about 1 line long. Petals about as long as the calyx, perhaps sometimes 
wanting. Ovules 1 in each cell of the ovary ; styles rather short. 
Hab.: Islands of Moreton Bay. 
8. MOLLUGO, Linn. 
(A name in “ Pliny,” retained by Linnaeus.) 
(Glinus, Linn.; Trigastrotheca. l'\ v. .M.) 
Calyx segments 5, persistent. Petals none. Stamens few or many, free, 
sometimes with the addition of a few staminodia, of which 1 to 5 external ones 
represent petals, alternating with the calyx- segments. Ovary 3 to o-celled, with 
several ovules in each cell ; styles as many as cells, linear or clavate. Capsule 
membranous, enclosed in the persistent calyx, opening loculicidally in as many 
valves as cells. Seeds with a smooth or granulate testa, the funicle sometimes 
thickened into a small white arillus or strophiole, with or without a filiform 
appendage. — Erect or diffuse herbs, mostly annual. Radical leaves rosulate, but 
often disappearing before the flowering. Stem-leaves alternate, but often 
clustered in the axils so as to appear verticillate. Stipules very small and 
fugacious. Flowers small, the pedicels usually clustered in the axils, sometimes 
forming cymes, umbels or racemes. 
The genus is abundantly diffused over the warmer regions of the globe, extending into Europe 
and North America. 
Section I. Glinus. -Seeds stropliiolutc , with a filiform appendage (resembling a jnnicle) 
more or less encircling them. 
Softly tomentose. Flowers rather large, in axillary clusters. Stamens about 
10 to 15 1. .1/. Glinus. 
Quite glabrous. Flowers rather large, in terminal clusters. Stamens about 15 2. .1/. orygioides. 
Glabrous or slightly pubescent. Flowers rather small, in axillary clusters. 
Stamens under 10 3. .1/. Spergula. 
Section II. IVIollug'O. — Seeds without tiny strophiola. 
Glabrous, stems much-branched, leafy. Seeds covered with raised tubercular 
points 4. M. stricta. 
Glabrous, filiform and small. Flowers small, on filiform pedicels. Stamens 
5, the filaments not dilated 5. .1/. Cerviana. 
1. M. Glinus (an old generic name), A. Rich. FI. Abyss, i. 48 ; Death. FI. 
Austr. iii. 333. A rather coarse species, softly tomentose all over, sometimes 
small and erect, but usually diffuse, procumbent or ascending and spreading to 
above 1ft. Leaves from obovate-orbicular to oblong-spathulate, sometimes above 
lin. long, but usually much smaller. Flowers clustered at the nodes on short 
pedicels rarely as long as the calyx. Calyx like the rest of the plant very tomen- 
tose, segments 21- to 4 lines long. Stamens about 10 to 15, with 5 or fewer 
external staminodia, fiat, very thin and transparent, often forked. Styles usually 
5, united at the base. Capsule enclosed in the calyx, 5-lobed. Seeds numerous"; 
testa tuberculate, funicle thickened into a short strophiole or arillus, with a long 
filiform hair-like white process more or less encircling the seed. — Glinus lutoides, 
Linn. Spec. PI. 663; Fenzl in Ann. Wien. Mus. i. 357, with the synonyms 
adduced ; F. v. M. PI. Viet. i. 202. 
Hab.: Rockhampton, Thozet, and many other localities. 
Widely dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, extending to 
Europe, and found also in various parts of tropical America. There is a less tomentose variety 
with smaller flowers, approaching 3/. Spergula, which, however, has not yet been found in 
Australia — [tenth. 
2. M. orygioides (like an Orygia), F. c. M. Herb.-, Death. FI. Austr. iii. 
333. Stout and rigid, apparently perennial, dichotomously branched, quite 
glabrous. Leaves obovate or oblong, all under Ain. in our specimens. Flowers 
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