TRIAND. TRIGYN. 156—159. 
17? 
‘otitm 
Stem erefl, naked: leaves radical, enfiform, fliort; fcapes 
terminal, umbellcd: involucre many-leaved. 
Gaiana, Lamarck, tacyclof. 3. t, $o.f. 4^ 
'U 
156. MONTI A. Calyx a-leaved: corol i-petal- 
led, irregular: capjule i-cclled, 3-valved, 3- 
fceded. Water -chickweedt 
Montia.1 
Wet fields. Curt. Lend.Jafc. 3. U 8. Flir. Dan. /. 1 3 1 . 
157. PROSERPINACA. 3-parted, fuperior ; 
corol o: wa/ 3- celled. 
PROSERPINACA. 
Virginia. Root creeping: Jiems roundifh: leaves alternate, 
lanceolate, ferrate ; thofe under ■water divided into linear 
fegments : axillary, folitary. 
'“w. 
“’n. 
158, HOLOSTEUM. Calyx 5-leaved: petals^*, 
capjule I -celled, nearly cylindrical, burfting at 
tne topij Chitkweed, 
Leaves fome'what heart-fhaped. 
Jamaica. Surinam. Herm.fardi II. r. II. 
Culms decumbent, creeping : leaves oppofite, nearly fefllle : pe- 
duncles lateral, 7-flowered : fioviers white. 
Stems procumbent, rather rigid: leav'es roundiflj ; flo'wers 
2- male,- 
Jamaica. Svoartz. prodr. 27. Willds i,^,489. 
Leaves elliptic, flefhy. 
New York; Petals white, fubtrifid, lefs than the calyx. 
Leaves orbicular, hairy. 
Malabar. Ameen. Acad. 3. /- 21. 
Flowers in umbels. 
Old walls. Eng- Bot. t. 27. Rofe elem, app. t. z. f. 4. 
V, 
159. KCENIGIA. 3-leaved: corol ox feed i, 
ovate, naked. 
Koekigia. 
Iceland, t'lor. Dan, t. 418. 
Stem with a few fpreading branches oppofite the leaves : staves 
alternate, obovate, entire, obtufe: yjflwfr/ terminal, numerous, 
divided by membranaceous bradles: Jiigmata often 2 or 3. 
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