JS PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
two rouncliili corpufcles on their fides, fupporting one 
common ilyie the length of the ftamina, crowned with 
two ftigmata, the lower orbicular and plain, the upper 
headed and hollow. The fruit is compofed of two taper, 
acute, pointed hufks, opening lengthways, containing 
oblong, cylindrical, fulcated feeds. 
Minor. Perrcoincle with procumbent ftalks, lanceola- 
to-oval leaves and the flowers upon peduncles. In woods 
and hedges. Per. May and June. 
Major. Periwincle with ereeb ftalks and oval leaves. 
Per. May and June. 
D I G T N I A comprehends fuck as have Hvo pijiils. 
HERNIARIA. Rupturewort. 
The cup is monophyllous, quinquepartite, acute, pat- 
ient, coloured, and endures till the fruit be ripe, without 
any flower. The five fubulated filaments are very fmall, 
fituated between the fegments of the cup, with fimple 
anther^e. There are five other barren ftamina placed al- 
ternately with the others. The germen is oval with 
fcarce any ftyle, but two acuminated ftigmata of the 
length of the ftyle. The fruit is a fmall capfule in the 
bottom of the cup containing one folitary, ovato-acu- 
minated fhining feed. 
Glabra. Smooth Rupturewort. Found in gravelly 
places. About the Lizard-point in Cornwall. Hudson. 
An. July. 
Plirfuta. Rough or hairy Rupturewort. In gravelly 
places, but not common. In the fields near Colney-hatch 
near Barnet. An. July and Aug. 
' Lenticulata. Sea Rupturewort with a roundifh, thick 
• fhining leaf like mother of thyme. R. Sy. i6i. On 
the Sea-lhore. Per. 
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