CAIIYO I'HYLLE.’E. 
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1 1 A R. Common in dry stony places: on walls. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
Hoots fibrous. Stem branching at the root: branches pro 
cumbent, afterwards ascending, dichotomously subdivided, 4-ago- 
nal, puberulous with glanduloso-capitate hairs. Leaves oppo- 
site, shortly petiolate, subrotund, apiculated, subentire, 3-nerved, 
delicately reticulato-venose, minutely puberulous to the glass. 
Stipules multifido-ciliated. Flower-branchlets bifurcating with 
the leaf-bearing branches : common peduncle usually about 3 
inches long, bifurcating, viscid with capitato-glandulose hairs : 
a pair of small lanceolate bracteas at the divisions of the panicle. 
Flowers small, shortly pedicelled. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acute. 
Petals rather shorter than the sepals, deeply bipartite. Sta- 
mens 2, incumbent. Ovary globose : styles 3, short, patent. 
Capsule ovate, 3-gonal, 3-valved to the base, 1 -celled, 5-seeded : 
seeds annuloso-reniform, minutely and closely granulose : em- 
bryo peripheral. 
2. Drymaria cordata. Heart-leaved Drymaria. 
Stem and leaves glabrous subrotund apiculated ob- 
soletely cordate at the base, peduncles elongated dicho- 
tomously subdivided many-flowered, calyx glabrous 
longer than the petals, ovaries 7-10-seeded. 
Sloane, I. 203. — Browne , 139 — Holosteum eordatmn, Lam' 
111. t. 51. f. 2. — Drymaria cordata, De Cand. Prod. I. 395. — 
H. B. et Kunth, VI. 23. 
HAJ3. Rocky places in the mountains. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
Herbaceous, at the base procumbent, afterwards ascending 
dichotomously branched, terete, glabrous. Leaves 3-nerved. 
Stipules lacinulato-fimbriated. Peduncle axillary, elongated, 
dichotomously subdivided, with a pair of small lanceolate brac- 
teas at the divisions : pedicels short, 1-flowered, covered with a 
minute snow-white pubescence. Flowers small collected at the 
ends of the branchlets of the panicle. Sepals 5, lanceolate. 
Petals shorter than the sepals, bipartite nearly to the base. 
Stamens 3- rarely 4, shorter than the petals: anthers bi-cor 
puscular, inserted on opposite sides of the extremity of the fila- 
ment. Ovary globose, 3-gonal : styles 3, rather short, spread- 
ing. Capsule oval, 3-gonal, 3-valved to the base, 1 -celled, 8- 
seeded : seeds subrenif'orm, minutely granulose under the glass. 
This species differs from the preceding, in the leaves being 
larger and more succulent, perfectly glabrous, and prominently 
3-nerved, and the flower-stalks being free of any viscid pubes- 
It is only found in mountain districts. 
cence. 
