568 DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Spergula. 
(Var. 2. Smooth-seeded Corn Spurrey. S. pentandra. E. Bot. S.ar- 
vensis (3. Hook. Sm. Eng-. FI. Having stamens only five; seeds lenti¬ 
cular and smooth, with a whitish membranous border, 
E. Bot . 1563. 
At first supposed by Smith to constitute a distinct species, but as the 
plant usually grows intermixed with S. arvensis , and is only to be re¬ 
cognised by a minute examination of the flowers and seeds, we cannot 
assign it such a distinction: and it has since been admitted that interme¬ 
diate appearances may be traced. E.) 
S. subula'ta. (Leaves opposite, awl-shaped, bristle-pointed, fringed : 
flower-stalks solitary, much longer than the leaves, slightly 
hairy. E.) 
Curt. 139—(E. Bot. 1082— FI. Ban. 858. E.) 
(Scarcely two inches high, branched, and decumbent at the base; each 
branch^terminating in a flower-stalk one inch long, with a small white- 
petalled flower , erect when expanded, but generally drooping before and 
after: Hook., who reports the glandular hairs on the margins of the 
leaves to be sometimes wanting. E.) 
(Awl-shaped Spurrey. Welsh: Troellig mynawydaidd. S. procumbens 
(3. Linn. E.) S. saginoides. Curt. S. laricina. Lightf. Huds, Dry pas¬ 
tures in a gravelly soil. Uxbridge Moor. Isle of Bute; Cobham and 
Esher, Surry; Devonshire and Cornwall; Putney Heath, Combe Wood; 
Bagshot Heath; Potnell Warren; near the great bog at Virginia Water. 
Sandy ground by road sides near Forfar, and between Dundee and St. 
Andrew’s. Mr. Brown. (On a dry common, half a mile from Nantglyn, 
by the road side leading to Groes, Denbighshire. Mr. Griffith. Near 
Holyhead. Welsh Bot. E.) P. June—Aug, 
S. nodc/sa. Leaves opposite, awl-shaped, smooth: stems simple: 
(petals much longer than the nerveless calyx. E.) 
Curt. 261— (E. Bot. 694. E.)— Kniph. 11— FI. Ban. 96— J. B. iii. 724— 
Gtr. 567. 6—Park. 427. 3—Pluk. 7. 4— Pet. 59. 5. 
Bunches of very minute leaves in the bosom of the opposite leaves, which 
are the rudiments of small branches. Ray. Stems trailing, (three to six 
inches long, rarely branched. Flowers terminal, few, large, white. 
Stems nearly upright: pistils sometimes only three; axillary tufts or 
branches often deciduous. Roberts. E.) 
notted Spurrey. (Welsh: Troellig clvmmog. E.) Marshy places, 
wet pastures and sides of rivers, lakes, and marshes. Bogs about Settle, 
and in the north. Curtis. Boggy ground in Sutton Park, Warwickshire. 
Dr. Stokes. Side of the lake at Llanberris, plentiful. Mr. Aikin. 
(Among the quarries of Spoonbed Hill, Painswick. Mr. O. Roberts. 
Near Fulwell Turnpike gate, Durham. Winch Guide. On the High 
Tor Docks, Dartmoor. Rev. J. Pike Jones. About Lyd and Sandgate, 
Kent, Mr. G. E. Smith. In Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Pentland hills, and 
King’s Park. Grev. Edin. E.) 
variety called S. sativn , is cultivated in some parts of Germany for sheep, and for reclaiming 
waste sands. The seed of this sort may be had of Mr. Sinclair, New Cross, near London. 
Perhaps where turnips fail Spurrey may be sown with advantage, but its produce is too 
inferior to be worthy of general attention in England. E.) 
