TETRANDRIA. TETRAGYNIA. Sagina. 261 
S. procum'bens. (Stems procumbent, smooth: petals very short. E.) 
Curt. — (E . Bot. 880. E.)— Kniph. 10 —Seguier. i. 5. 3— Park. 1340. 6—- 
Pet. 59. 10. 
j Root perennial when cultivated, and in a garden it produces petals, though 
I could never find any in a wild state. Jacq. Two or three inches high ; 
stems thread-like ; leaves slender and minute. Blossom greenish white, 
(at first drooping. E.) The four valves of the capsule, after it opens, 
have so much the appearance of petals, that it is possible to mistake 
them. (Stems and leaves remaining green through the winter. E.) 
Procumbent Pearl-wort. (Welsh: Corivlyddyn gorweddawl. E.) 
Walls, roofs, sandy, and also boggy places ; garden walks, paved courts, 
common. P. June. 
(Var. 2. Flowers with five petals. 
Seldom or never grows in patches. Fruit-stalks and capsules longer than 
in the preceding. Flowers mostly five petals and ten stamens; when 
they have always five styles. 
On Ben Lawers, at a great height. Mr. Brown. Aug. E.) 
Var. 3. FI pleno. Petals more than twenty. Observed near Beaumaris, 
by the Rev. Hugh Davies. E.) 
(S. marit'ima. Stems nearly upright, divaricated, smooth : leaves ob¬ 
tuse, without bristles: petals none. 
Hook. FI. Loud. 115— E. Bot. 2195. 
Stems numerous, two or three inches high, spreading at the bottom, but 
otherwise erect, branched, leafy, round, smooth, often purplish. Leaves 
scarcely half the length of the former species, but broader in proportion, 
thick and blunt, often tipped with a minute point, but no bristle ; com¬ 
bined by their membranous bases, and sometimes fringed thereabouts. 
Flower-stalks slender, erect, smooth, usually an inch long. Calyx-leaves 
broadly ovate, obtuse, with a white membranous edge. Petals abortive, 
or entirely wanting. Capsule rather longer than the calyx. Sm. Some¬ 
times eight stamens. Don. Petals entirely wanting. Sm. and Hook. 
It is distinguished from S. procumbens, with which it is frequently found 
mixed, by its annual roots, and nearly erect, reddish stems; from 
S . apetala by its entirely glabrous stems; and from both by its total 
want of petals, awnless and obtuse leaves, and much shorter capsule. 
FI. Lond. 
Sea Pearl-wort. This new species was detected in Scotland by Mr. 
Don, on the coast near Aberdeen, near Queen’s Ferry, Isle of Skye, 
and also, it is said, on the summit of Ben Nevis: but was anteriorly 
discovered by Mr. Brown, from whom we find specimens in With. 
Herb, gathered on the sea-shore at Ballycastle, and also at Carn, 
Antrim, more than twenty years ago. Mr. Winch has recently favoured 
us with specimens from Hartlepool Pier, and Seaton Moor, Durham; 
and Professor Hooker appears to have found it in salt-marshes at South- 
wold, Suffolk, abundantly. A. May—Aug. E.) 
S. apet'ala. (Stem nearly upright, pubescent; leaves bristle-pointed, 
fringed ; petals very minute, or wanting. E.) 
Dicks . H. St — Curt. — (E. Bot. 881. E.)— FI. Dan. 845*— Plot. Oxf. 9. 7. 
atp. 146— Pet. 59. 11 —Pluk. 74. 
