SAGINA 
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Perennial. Shoot rather laxly caespitose, up to about 12 or 13 cm. high. Primary rosettes 
small, numerous, vernal and autumnal, with leaves all pointing upwards. Leaves often minutely 
ciliate, often glandular, somewhat acuminate, distinctly mucronate. Pedicels longer than in the 
other species, up to about 3 cm. long. Flowers pentamerous, about 6 — 8 mm. in diameter. Sepals 
subacute, usually glandular. Petals a little longer than the sepals, either narrowly elliptical and 
rather acute or broadly oboval and obtuse, not or scarcely overlapping. Stamens 10. Capsules a 
little longer than the persistent calyx, with appressed sepals. Seeds minutely punctate. 
(a) S. subulata var. major Rouy et Foucaud FI. France iii, 294 (1896). 
leones : — Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 23. g—j. 
More robust and larger than var. minor. Petals broadly obovate, obtuse, scarcely overlapping. 
Capsules about twice the size of those of var. minor. 
Jersey, and perhaps elsewhere. 
Also recorded for France. 
(b) S. subulata var. minor nobis ; S. subulata Rouy et Foucaud loc. cit., excl. var. major p. 294. 
leones: — Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 23. a — f. 
More densely tufted but smaller than var. major. Petals narrowly elliptical, rather acute, 
not contiguous. Capsules a little shorter than the persistent calyx, about 3 mm. long and 2 broad. 
Probably this is a common form of the species, as it occurs in Jersey and Forfarshire. 
Dry sandy or siliceous grassland and rocky places ; local but widespread, ranging from Jersey 
to Zetland and from western Galway to Norfolk, ascending to 610 m. in Perthshire. 
Faeroes, Iceland, southern Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Holland, France, central Europe, 
Russia, southern Europe. 
3. SAGINA NIVALIS. Plate 24 
Sagina nivalis Fries FI. Suec. Mont, iii, 31 (1842)! excl. syn. Vahl ; Watson in Journ. Bot. i, 355 (1863); 
Syme Eng. Bot. ii, 124 (1864); Spergula saginoides var. nivalis Lindblom in Physiogr. Sdllsk. Tidskr. 328 (1838); 
in Flora xxiv, 587 (1841); S', intermedia Fenzl in Ledebour FI. Ross, i, 339 (1842). 
leones: — Syme Eng. Bot. ii, t. 250 bis (very schematic); FI. Dan. t. 2961. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 24.. (a, b, c ) Plants in fruit. ( d ) Portion of shoot (enlarged). ( e ) Persistent 
calyx enclosing capsule (enlarged), (f) Capsule (with persistent calyx) dehiscing, a from Perthshire (C. P. H.). 
b — -f from Perthshire (C. E. M.). 
Exsiccata : — Fries, xii, 51. 
Perennial, densely tufted. Shoot glabrous. Leaves very small, up to about 3 mm. long, sub- 
mucronate. Flowering branches very short, numerous, rigid. Pedicels short, erect, about 5 mm. 
long. Flowers pentamerous, about 3 mm. in diameter; July. Sepals broad, obtuse. Petals about 
as long as the sepals. Capsules rather longer than the calyx, with erect sepals. Seeds rugose. 
Very rare; in crevices of rocks on the summits of mountains; only certainly known from 
Perthshire, up to about 1210m., but doubtful records exist for Dumbartonshire or Argyllshire, 
Forfarshire, and the Isle of Skye. 
Arctic Europe (including the Faeroes and Iceland), and Asia; Greenland. Not known in 
central Europe. 
4. SAGINA SAGINOIDES. Plates 25, 26 
Sagina saginoides Dalla Torre Anleit. Beob. Alpenpfl. 75 in Hartinger’s Atlas der Alpenpjl. (1882) incl. 
S', macrocarpa-, Britton in Mem. Torr. Club v, 1 5 1 (1894); Moss in Journ. Bot. Iii, 60 (1914); Spergula saginoides 
L. Sp. PI. 441 (1753)!; Smith FI. Brit. 504 (1804)!; Alsine saginoides Crantz Inst, ii, 408 (1766); Sagina 
linnaei C. B. Presl Rel. Haenk. ii, 14 (1831); S. saxatilis Wimmer FI. Schles. 75 (1841); Syme Eng. Bot. ii, 
122 (1864). 
Perennial. Root slender. Shoot glabrous, eglandular. Primary rosettes with leaves up to 
about 1 *5 — 2 ’5 cm. long, hibernal. Flowering branches procumbent or ascending, often producing 
barren rosettes (as in S. procumbens ) in the axils of the leaves, these secondary rosettes ultimately 
often separating from the plant and propagating it. Leaves submucronate. Pedicels about 1 — 2 cm. 
long, erect when in flower, bending over at the top after flowering, erect again when in fruit. 
Flowers usually pentamerous, sometimes tetramerous, about 4 mm. in diameter; June to late August 
or early September. Sebals a little shorter than the petals. Petals not contiguous or a little 
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