DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Cotyledon. 555 
in pairs, membranous, sheathing the stem. E.) Calyx , leaves spear- 
shaped, concave, membranous at the edge, viscid, and beset with minute 
hairs with globular heads. Summits woolly. Petals purple, (opening 
only in sunny weather. E.) 
Purple Spurrey or Sandwort. (Welsh: Tywodwlydd glasrudd. E.) 
Sandy meadows and corn-fields. A. June—Aug. 
CHERLE'RIA.* Cal. five leaves: Nectaries five, cloven, re¬ 
resembling petals : Anthers , every other barren : Caps, 
one-celled, three-valved, three-seeded. 
C. sedoi'des. 
Diclcs. H. S .— Jacq. Austr. 284— (E. Bot. 1212. E.)— Hall . Opusc. 1. 3. at 
p. 300— Hall. 21. 1. at ii . p. 114— Penn. Voy. 33— Pluk. 42. 8— Park. 737. 
11— II. Ox. xii. 6.14. 
(Densely tufted; stems two or three inches high. Flowers solitary, yel¬ 
lowish green, each Jlower-stalk bearing a pair of small bracteas. Prof. 
Hooker considers the glands withinside five of the stamens as minute 
petals. E.) Leaves opposite, strap-shaped, rough at the edge, connected 
at the base into a kind of sheath. When the leaves fall off, the sheath 
and keel of the leaves remain, clothing the stem, whence it has an affinity 
to the Giliflower tribe. Linn. 
Moss Cypher. Highland mountains, near their summits. On Ben Tes- 
kerney and Craig Cailleach ; and in immense quantities on Ben Lawers, 
but only at truly alpine elevations. Mr. Brown. (On Ben Lomond, and 
Ben y Gloe. Mr. Winch, E.) P. July—Aug. 
PENTAGYNIA. 
COTYLE'DON.f Calyx four or five-cleft: Bloss. one petal: 
Nectariferous scales five, at the base of the five capsules. 
C. umbili cus. Leaves target or kidney-shaped, scolloped: stem clus¬ 
tered : flowers pendent: bracteas entire. 
(Hook. FI. Lond. 184— E. Bot. 325. E.)— Clus. ii. 63. 1— Blackw. 263— 
Dod. 131. 1 —Lob. Obs. 209. 3 —Ger. Em. 528. I—Park. 740. 1—Ger. 
423. 1— J. B. iii. 684. 1— Matth. 1122. 
Root oblong, sometimes the size of a nutmeg, flat at bottom, covered with 
small fibres. Stackh. Whole plant succulent. Leaves thick, fleshy, cir¬ 
cular, with central leaf-stalks, concave on the upper surface, with a hollow 
dimple nearly in the centre, just opposite to the insertion of the leaf-stalk 
underneath. Stem-leaves resembling the root-leaves, but not so exactly 
circular, and the leaf-stalk not fixed so nearly in the centre. Stern up¬ 
right, (simple or branched, six to twelve inches high, E.) clothed with a 
long spike-like bunch of pendent flowers, but in the smaller plants the 
flowers are sometimes upright or horizontal. Floral-leaves strap-spear¬ 
shaped, entire. Bloss. tubular, five-sided, pale greenish yellow. 
* (In honour of John Henry Cherler, assistant to the celebrated Botanist, John Bauhin, 
1619. E.) 
f (From xoTuAijStuy, a cavity ; so called by Dioscorides and Pliny, because its leaf is of a 
hollow, and somewhat semi-oibicular form. E.) 
