. Flowers of the field. Botany. CoTiRiGiOLA Littoralis {Sayid Strap-wort) 2. Herniaria {Rupture-wort) I. H. glabra (Smooth Rupture-wort).—A small, prostrate plant, with much of the habit of Wild Thyme ; abundant in the neigh- bourhood of the Lizard Point, Cornwall, but very rare elsewhere. Though called smooth, the leaves are always more or less fringed at the edges. The ffowers are green, and grow in sessile tufts in the axils of the leaves, or not unfrequently crowded into leafy spikes. A form with narrow, hairy leaves (//. hirsuta) is found at Christ- church, in Hampshire.—Fl. July to Septe
. Flowers of the field. Botany. CoTiRiGiOLA Littoralis {Sayid Strap-wort) 2. Herniaria {Rupture-wort) I. H. glabra (Smooth Rupture-wort).—A small, prostrate plant, with much of the habit of Wild Thyme ; abundant in the neigh- bourhood of the Lizard Point, Cornwall, but very rare elsewhere. Though called smooth, the leaves are always more or less fringed at the edges. The ffowers are green, and grow in sessile tufts in the axils of the leaves, or not unfrequently crowded into leafy spikes. A form with narrow, hairy leaves (//. hirsuta) is found at Christ- church, in Hampshire.—Fl. July to September. Illecebr (Who UM Verticillatum rlcd Knot-grass) 3. (KllOf-gfass) »V/ I. /. verticillatum (Whorled Knot- grass).—A pretty plant with slender, tangled stems of a red tint, glaucous, sessile leaves, and axillary whorls of white flowers, which are remarkable lor their thickened calyx-leaves, termi- nating in a soft point. In boggy ground and standing water, among other aquatic plants ; only in Cornwall, Devonshire, and the Channel Islands.— Fl. July to September. Perennial. Natural Order XXXIII CRASSULACETE.—The Stonecrop Tribe Sepals 3-20, more or less united at the base ; petals equal in number to the sepals, inserted in the bottom of the calyx ; stamens the same or twice as many, in which latter case those opposite the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London, G. Routledge
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