Family 31. PORTULACACE^. Herbs. Lea. 
usually opposite, fleshy, entire; stipules scarious (o 
in Claytonia). Flow, small, cymose. Sep. (or 
bracteoles) 2. Pet. 4 — 5, free or connate at base, 
deciduous. Sta. 5 — oo- Carp. (3 — 5) ; ovary i- 
celled, with 2 — 00 campylotropous ovules on a 
central basal plac. Fr. a capsule. 
Montia, [Claytcruia, Portulaca.'\ 
Family 32. CARYOPHYLLACE^. Herbs, very 
rarely undershrubs, with 4- thickened nodes. Lea. 
simple, entire, opposite (except in Corrigiola), 
Stipules o or scarious. Flow, cyclic, actinomorphic, 
usually in dichasial cymes. Per. double, 5- (rarely 
4-) merous. Sep. free or united. Pet. free, often 
bifid, occasionally with ligules, sometimes reduced 
or o. Sta. usually 5 + 5 (obdiplostemonous) or 5 + 0, 
occasionally in 4’s, hypogynous. Carp. (2 — 5), with 
2 — 5 styles; ovary i-celled, often incompletely sep- 
tate in basal portion ; ovules i — cx», campylotropous ; 
plac. basal or central. Fr. a capsule (or, in Cucu- 
halus, a berry). 
Stellaria, Cerastium (inch Mcenchid), Holosteum, 
Arenaria, Sagina, Spergula, Spergularia, Poly- 
carpon, Corrigiola, Herniaria, Illecebrum, Scler- 
anthus, Agrostemma, Viscaria, Silene, Lychnis 
inch Melandryum) y Dianthus, Saponaria, [Cucu- 
halus, Gypsophila.] 
§ 4. HeterochlamydecB (Moss). 
Flow, usually with a double per., sep. and pet. 
4- unlike. Seeds usually not campylotropous (ex- 
cept in some rhceadales, especially crucifers). 
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