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5. Corymbed S. Herb 1° to 2° high, with a terete stem, little branched; leaves oblong, dotted with 
black as well as with transparent dots, and so generally are the pale yellow petals; sepals oblong. 
Low grounds. Ek corymbosum. 
* * * Stamens few, 5 to 15. Styles 3, short. Pod one-celled. Slender annuals, growing in wet 
or sandy places, 4' to 15' high: flowers very small. 
6. Small S. Stem weak, with spreading branches, leafy to the top; leaves ovate or oblong, partly 
clasping, 5-ribbed. II. mutilum. 
7. Canada S. Branches erect, leaves lance-shaped or linear; cymes leafless. B. Canctdense. 
8. Pine-weed S. Bushy-branched, the branches wiry and very slender; the leaves very minute, 
awl-shaped, close-pressed to the branches; flowers minute, sessile along the branches. E. Sarbthra. 
15. PINK FAMILY. Order CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 
Herbs with opposite and entire leaves, which are not dotted, the stems swollen at the 
joints. Flowers regular, their parts in fives, sometimes in fours. Stamens never more 
than twice as many as the petals or sepals, and often fewer, on the receptacle or the calyx. 
Styles or stigmas generally separate, 2 to 5. Fruit a pod, which is generally one-celled, 
with the seeds from the bottom or on a central column. These are kidney-shaped, and 
have the embryo on the outside of the albumen, generally coiled around it. — Bland 
302. Piece of Side-flowering Sandwort. 303. Flower magnified. 304. A seed divided, showing the embryo coiled around the outside of 
the albumen. 305. Pistil of Sand-Spurrey cut through lengthwise and magnified. 303. Lower part of the ovary of the same, cut across. 
307. Flower of a Catchfly cut through lengthwise. 308. A separate petal. 
