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SAGINA 
Series iv. A petalae 
Apetalae nobis. For characters, see p. 24. 
British species of Apetalae 
6. S. maritima (see below). Shoot usually glabrous. Leaves usually not mucronate. Capsule 
stouter than in S. apetala. 
7. S. apetala (see below). Shoot usually more or less ciliolate or glandular. Leaves mucro- 
nate. Capsules small, narrow, up to about 3 mm. long and 2 broad, with sepals either erect or 
suberect or spreading. 
6. SAGINA MARITIMA. Plate 29 
Sagina maritima G. Don Herb. Brit. fasc. vii, no. 155 (1806)!, cum descr. ; Smith Eng. Bot. no. 2195 
(1810); Syme Eng. Bot. ii, 117 (1864); Rouy FI. France iii, 289 (1896); S', erecta Muller in Ft. Dan. fasc. xv, 
p. 2, t. 845 (1782) nomen abortivum, non Linn. 1 ; S. sfricta Fries Ft. Suec. 47 (1817)! 
leones : — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 2195 ; Graves and Hooker in Curtis’s FI. Lond. ed. 2, v, t. 115 ; FI. Dan. t. 845, 
as S. erecta ; Reichenbach Icon, v, t. 201, fig. 4960; Jordan Observ. frag. 3, t. 3, fig. A, as S. maritima , 
fig. B, as S. densa, et fig. C, as S. debilis. (Jordan’s figures appear to us to represent three states or formae of 
the species.) 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 29. (a) Whole plant. Sussex (T. H.). (b) Whole plant. ( c ) Rosette-leaves 
(one enlarged), (d) Portion of branch (enlarged). Jersey (E. W. H.). ( e ) Whole plant. (/) Flowers (enlarged). 
Somerset (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 2424; Don, vii, 155; Fries, i, 43, as 5 . stricta-, x, 42, as S. stricta var. maritima ; 
Reichenbach, 1296; Schultz {FI. Gall, et Germ), 237 bis, as S. stricta. 
Annual. Shoot usually glabrous and eglandular. Stem erect or decumbent. Primary rosette 
usually soon withering. Leaves obtuse, usually not mucronate. Pedicels rigid, 1 — 2 cm. long. 
Flowers tetramerous ; May to August. Sepals about half as broad as long, obtuse, with a narrow 
scarious margin. Petals absent or minute. Stamens 4, antisepalous. Capsules erect, larger than in 
S. apetala and .S. procumbens, about 4 mm. long and 3’o — 3 '5 broad, persistent sepals usually erect. 
Seeds slightly rugose ; June to September. 
A plant intermediate between S. apetala and 5 . maritima was pointed out to us in June, 19x4, by Mr and 
Mrs Corstorphine on calcareous coastal cliffs in Forfarshire. It has the large capsules and fruiting sepals of S. maritima , 
but is glandular- hairy and has apiculate leaves as in S. apetala. If not a hybrid, the plant suggests the desirability of uniting 
the closely allied species S. apetala and S. maritima. 
Drier parts of salt-marshes, spray-washed rocks and cliffs, and waste places near the sea, 
from the Channel Isles, Cornwall, and Kent northwards to Zetland; in nearly all the maritime 
counties of Ireland ; rare on mountains, as on Ben Nevis and on the Cairngorms in Scotland. 
Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, southern Europe; northern Africa. 
7. SAGINA APETALA. Plate 30 
Saxifraga anglicana annua alsine folio Plot Nat. Hist. Oxfordsh. 146, t. 9, fig. 7 (1677); Ray Syn. ed. 3, 345 
(1724). 
Sagina apetala Arduino Animad. Bot. Spec, ii, p. xxii, t. 8, fig. 1 (1763)!; L. Mantissa ii, 559 (1771); 
Smith FI. Brit. 199 (1800)!; Rouy et Foucaud FI. France ii, 287 (1896). 
leones : — Graves and Hooker in FI. Lond. ed. 2, v, t. 1; Ft. Dan. t. 2102 ; Sv. Bot. t. 562, fig. 1, as S', stricta. 
Exsiccata: — Don, 156, as S', apetala-, Reichenbach, 68, as S', apetala-, Schultz {FI. Gall, et Germ), 1229, 
as S', apetala. 
Annual. Shoot glabrous or more or less glandular-hairy. Primary rosette small, with leaves 
up to about 2 cm. long and about 1 mm. broad. Flowering branches diffuse, ascending, or erect. 
Leaves glabrous or more or less glandular-ciliate, especially towards the base, mucronate. Pedicels 
2 mm. to 2 cm. in length. Flowers tetramerous; May — July. Sepals obtuse or the 2 outer ones 
usually mucronate. Petals very minute, lanceolate, acute, or absent. Stamens 4. Capsule about 
as long as the persistent calyx, with the sepals ultimately either divaricate or appressed. 
1 S. erecta L. (cf. p. 42) was not removed to Moenchia until some years later : hence the name S. erecta Muller was 
still-born. 
