. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 34 AIZOACEAE. Vol. Family 21. AIZOACEAE A. Br.; Aschers. Fl. Brand. 60. 1864. Carpet-weed Family. Herbs, rarely somewhat woody, mostly prostrate and branching, with (in our species) opposite or verticillate leaves and solitary cymose or glomerate perfect^ small, regular flowers. Stipules none or scarious, or the petiole-bases dilated. Calyx 4-5-cleft or 4-5-parted. Pe
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 34 AIZOACEAE. Vol. Family 21. AIZOACEAE A. Br.; Aschers. Fl. Brand. 60. 1864. Carpet-weed Family. Herbs, rarely somewhat woody, mostly prostrate and branching, with (in our species) opposite or verticillate leaves and solitary cymose or glomerate perfect^ small, regular flowers. Stipules none or scarious, or the petiole-bases dilated. Calyx 4-5-cleft or 4-5-parted. Petals small or none in our species. Stamens perig}'nous, equal in number to the sepals, fewer, or more numerous. Ovary usually free from the , 3-5-celled, and ovules numerous in each cell in our species. Fruit a capsule with loculicidal or circumscissile dehiscence. Seeds am- phitropous; seed-coat crustaceous or membranous; endosperm scanty or copious; embryo slender, curved. About 22 genera and 500 species, mostly of warm regions, a few in the temperate zones. Fleshy, sea-coast herbs; leaves opposite; capsule circumscissile. i. Sesuzitini. Not fleshy ; leaves verticillate ; capsule 3-valved. 2. Mollugo. I. SESUVIUM L. Syst. Ed. 10, 1058. 1759. Fleshy decumbent or prostrate herbs, with opposite leaves and solitary or clustered axil- lary pink or purplish flowers. Stipules none, but the petioles often dilated and connate at the base. Calyx top-shaped, 5-Iobed, the lobes oblong, ovate or lanceolate. Petals none. Stamens S-60, inserted on the tube of the calyx. Filaments filiform, sometimes united at the base. Ovary 3-5-celled. Styles 3-5, papillose along the inner side. Capsule membranous, oblong, 3-5-celled, circumscissile. Seeds round-reniform, smooth; embryo annular. About 4 species, natives of sea-coasts and saline regions. Besides the following, another, 5'. Portulacastrum L., the generic type, occurs in the Southern States. Stamens 5 ; coastal species. i. 5. marilinutm
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