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TI1AL AMI FLORAE. 
vato-wedgeshaped apiculated, stem procumbent dicho- 
tomous, peduncles 1 -flowered. 
Roem. et Schult. Syst. II. 871. — Pink. Pliyt. IV. t. 832. f. 5. 
HAB. Dry sandy situations. 
FL. After rains. 
Stem procumbent, terete, glabrous, jointed. Leaves 6-7 
in a whorl, subsessile ; the larger leaves lineari-lanceolate ; the 
smaller obovato-cuneate, glabrous. Pedicels 4-5 together, 
axillary, I -flowered, scarcely the length of the leaf. Calyx ex- 
ternally green ; internally white ; sepals oval, 3- nerved. Sta- 
mens 3, shorter than the sepals, appressed to the ovary : 
anthers white. Ovary globose, 3-grooved, yellow : styles 3, 
spreading. Capsule ovate, 3-eelled : seeds subreniform, purple. 
2. Mollugo bellidifolia. I) any -leaved Chickweed. 
Stem somewhat erect leafless, leaves radical ovato- 
spathulate attenuated at the base to form the petiole, 
flowers panicled — De Cand. 
Pharnaceum spathulatum, Swartz , FL Ind. Occ. I. 568. — 
Plum. Amer. t. 21. f. 1. — Sloane, 1. t. 129. f. 2. 
HAB. Sandy soils. 
FL. After rains. 
Leaves radical, entire, glabrous, decurrent on each side along 
the petiole. Peduncles several from the same root, filiform, 
dividing above the middle ; branches subdivided, at length ca- 
pillary. Flowers minute, whitish. Calycine divisions green 
and 3-nerved externally, white internally. Stamens 5, length 
of the calyx, contiguous to the ovary: anthers white. Ovary 
subglobose, obtusely 3-gonal : styles 3 : stigmata acute. Cap- 
sule ovate : seeds 5-6 in each cell, compresso-spherical, min- 
utely granulose and marked with lines. 
III. Drymaria. West India Chickweed. 
Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, bifid. Stamens *2-3-5. 
Styles 3. Capsule 3-valved to the base, 5-co seeded. 
Embryo in the periphery, subannular. — De Cand. 
1. Drymaria diandra. Small-leaved Chickweed. 
Stem and branches minutely puberulous with capi- 
tato-glandulose viscid hairs, leaves subrotund apicnlato- 
mucronate, flowers diandrous, capsule 5-seeded. 
Holosteum diandrum, Swartz , Prod. 27. t. 7. — FI. Ind. Occ. 
221. — Roem. et Schult. II. 857. — Drymaria diandra, De Cand. 
Prod. I. 393. 
