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5. Cor ym bed S. Herb 1° to 2° high, with a terete stem, little branched; leaves oblong, dotted with 
black as well as with transparent dots, and so generally are the pale yellow petals ; sepals oblong. 
Low grounds. H. corymbosvm. 
* # * Stamens few, 5 to 15. Styles 3, short. Pod one-celled. Slender annuals, growing in wet 
or sandy places, 4' to 15' high : flowers very small. 
b. Small S. Stem weak, with spreading branches, leafy to the top ; leaves ovate or oblong, partly 
clasping, 5-ribbed. E. miitilum. 
7. Canada S. Branches erect, leaves lance-shaped or linear ; cymes leafless. H. Canadense. 
8. Pine-weed S. Bushy-branched, the branches wiry and very slender; the leaves very minute, 
awl-shaped, close-pressed to the branches; flowers minute, sessile along the branches. H. Sarothra. 
15. PINK FAMILY. Order CARY OPHYLLACEiE. 
Herbs with opposite and entire leaves, which are not dotted, the stems swollen at the 
joints. Flowers regular, their parts in fives, sometimes in fours. Stamens never more 
than twice as many as the petals or sepals, and often fewer, on the receptacle or the calyx. 
Styles or stigmas generally separate, 2 to 5. Fruit a pod, which is generally one-celled, 
with the seeds from the bottom or on a central column. These are kidney-shaped, and 
have the embryo on the outside of the albumen, generally coiled around it. — Bland 
m Piece of Skle-flowering Sandwort. 303. Flower magnified. 304. A seed divided, showing the embryo coiled around the o, aside 4 
.lie albumen. o05 I istil ot bancl-fepurrey cut thiough lengthwise and magnified. SOd, Lower part of the ovary of the same, cul 
307. V’lower of a Catchfiy cut through lengthwise. 308. A separate petal 
across. 
