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Arenaria teretifolia verna, ft ore albo , semine Umbo foliaceo cincto ; Rupp., 
Gen. ioi (and then) Spergula annua , semine foliaceo nigro circulo 
membranaceo albo cincto ; Moris., Hist. 2. p. 551 [Hort.] ; Blaes. 28; 
Dill. [Cat.] Giss. 46 ; E. N. H. [Eph. Nat. Cur.] ; Cent. 5, p. 275 to 
4; Ray, Ang. 3, p. 351 Habitat: Germania, Gallia, Anglia [sic]; 
Hispania/ See also S. pentandra , L. in With. [Stokes], ed. ii. vol. i. 
p. 482 (1787), Lamk., 111 . t. 392; Villars, FI. Dauph. vol. iii. 656 
(1789) ; Lamk., FI. Fr. vol. 773 ; Gilib., FI. Lith. vol. 157 ; Poir., Enc. 
vol. ii. 304; Clairv., Mon. 15 1 ; Gray, S. F. Arr. Br. PI. ii. 653; 
Gaudin, FI. Helv. iii. 255 (1828); Persoon, Syn. i. 552; Seringe, in 
D C. Prod. i. 394 ; Lois., FI. Gall. i. 325 ; Boreau, Rev. bot. de Duch. 
(1847) 4331 et i n FI. Cent. Fr. ii. 102 ; Gren. et Godron, FI. Fr. i. 
274; Koch, Syn. FI. Germ. i. 120; Doll, FI. Bad. 1216; Ledeb., FI. 
Ross. ii. 169; Willk. et Lange, FI. Hisp. iii. 161; Nyman, Consp. 
Europ. 122 ; Hook., FI. Br. Ind. i. 243?; ? Boiss., FI. Orient, i. 731 ; 
Clavaud, FI. Gironde, i. 175 ; Colmeiro, En. PI. Penin. i. 433 ; Arch- 
angel, FI. Ital. 106. 
Stellar ia pentandra, Scop., FI. Carn. i. 318. 
Alsine pentandra , Crantz. 
Arenaria media , Pollich, Pal. i. 433 et Sibth. in lit. 
A. pentandra, Wallroth, Sched. 206. 
Alsine marginata , Schreb., Lips. 31. 
Spergularia pentandra , G. Don., Syst. Veg. i. p. 425. 
Spergula arvensis , L. var. marginata , Moris., FI. Sard. i. 284. 
The following description, which is admirably characteristic of our 
plant, I have adopted from the FI. Hispan. by Wilkomm et Lange, 
my own additions being in brackets, and I am also answerable for the 
italics: — S. pentandra , L. [1] glabra multicaulis , caulibus adscen- 
tibus 3-8 /. apice dichotomus gracilibus , inter nodiis praelongus ; [2] 
foliis anguste linear ibus sub-filiformibus 3-10 /. obtusis teretiusculis ; 
cyma effusa ad originem dichotomia ceterum utroque latere dimidiata , 
floribus longe pedunculatis , pedunculis filiformibus post anthesin paten- 
tissimis v. refraciis ideoque divaricatis ; [3] sepalis ovalilanceolatis 
viridibus albo marginatis , petalis oblongo obtusis , calycem excedentibus ; 
[4] staminibus 5 capsula [guinque partita~\ calyce sublongiore seminibus 
valde compressis rotundis nigris laevibus ; [5] ala semine sublatiore 
alba scariosa ad hilum fissa cinctis. Semine cum ala ultra linea?n 
lata. 
S. arvensis, L. [1] viscido — puberula ; [2] foliis sub/us sulco longi- 
