ARENARIA RUBELLA. SMALL ARCTIC SANDWORT.
ARENARIA rubella; foliis subulatis muticis trinerviis, pedunculis unifloris pubescentibus, calycibus
.acutissimis trinerviis, petala elliptico-lanceolata (nonnunquam deficientia) capsulamque
quadrivalvem paululum superantibus.
ARENARIA rubella. Hooker in Parry's Second Voyage, App. ined.
ARENARIA quadrivalvis. Brown in Parry's First Voyage, App. p. cclxxi.
ALSINE rubella. Wahl. FI. Lapp. p. 128. t. 6.
Class and Ord er. DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA.
[Natural O rd er. CARYOPHYLLEÆ, Juss., Decand., Br., Hook.]
G en . Char. Calyx pentaphyllus. Petala quinque integra. Capsula unilocularis, polysperm a.
G en . Char. Calyx of five leaflets. Petals five, entire. Capsule one-celled, many-seeded.
Radix parva, subfibrosa, perennis.
Caulis e basi ramosus, ramis numerosis densissime
ctespitosis; basi reliquiis foliorum vetustorum
tectus, superne foliosus.
Folia plerumque viridia, raro purpureo tincta, opposita,
lineari-subulata, duas tres lineas longa, crassius-
cula, obtusa, mutica, supra plana, dorso convex-
iuseula, trinervia, basi dilatata membranacea,
connata.
Pedunculi terminales, magis minusve elongati, solitarii,
uniflori, glanduloso-pubescentes.
Calyx pentaphyllus, foliolis lanceolatis, acutissimis,
viridibus (vel in speciminibus exoticis saspe pur-
pureis), trinerviis, margine membranaceis, scario-
sis, ad basin extus paululum pubescentibus.
Petala elliptico-lanceolata, acutiuscula, alba, calyce
paululum breviora, nonnunquam deficientia.
Stamina decern, corolla breviora. Filamenta annulo
perbrevi ad basin germinis inserta. Anther®
didym®, loculis subglobosis, pallide flav®.
Germen ovatum, obtusum, obscure quadrilobum.
Styli quatuor, filiformes, albi, subpubescentes
Capsula calyce persistente paululum brevior, quadrivalvis
(passim bi- ad quinque-valvis.—Br.).
Receptaculum seminum col urn nare, albi centrale,
seminibus fuscis reniformibus tectum.
Root small, rather fibrous, perennial.
Stem branched from the base, the branches numerous,
thickly tufted ; clothed at the base with the remains
of old leaves, leafy above.
Leaves generally green, rarely tinged with purple, opposite,
linear-subulate, two or three lines long,
thickish, blunt, awnless, plane above, rather
convex behind, three-nerved, swollen a t the base,
membranaceous, connate.
P eduncles terminal, more or less elongated, solitary,
single-flowered, downy with glands.
Calyx of five leaflets, the leaflets lanceolate, very acute,
green (in foreign specimens frequently red), three-
nerved, at the margin membranaceous, scariose,
slightly downy externally at the base.
P etals between elliptic and lanceolate, rather acute,
white, somewhat shorter than the calyx, sometimes
deficient.
Stamens ten, shorter than the corolla. Filaments inserted
upon a very short annulus at the base of
the germen. Anthers didymous, with two almost
globose cells, pale yellow.
Germen ovate, obtuse, indistinctly four-lobed. Styles
four, filiform, white, somewhat downy.
Capsule with the calyx persisting, a little shorter than
it, with four valves (occasionally with two to five
valves.—Br.).
Receptacle of the seeds columnar, central, covered
with brown reniform seeds.
t C' Fig' " , Porti,°“ of the same’ H H fig . 3. Flower in which the petals are want-
Bwk view of the same. Fig. 9. Capsule included in the calyx. Fig. 10. Capsule removed from the calyx’
fig - 11. Capsule cut open to show the insertion of the seeds -.—all but Fig. 1. more or less magnified. *
to -the RririJwt sr?tificatiohn °f hert 8™ S lb? fiS“re «"d description of aplant that is not only altogether new
o n l X C n T S i n l e s e f e w J I “ ” “ ° ° * ^ ^ “ W » - e l
detected1,ft H f l ™e i H ° f “f plant 1 from Wahlenberg, who published it in his Flora Lapponku. He
don o f ln n n IT f ln ! ary H w Places’ upon the Alps of the norlllera Parls of Nordland, at an demand
le?el H sea- 11 ™ next brought to England b , Captain Parry, both from his first
the different nfflr expedition, and if we may judge from the number of specimens existing in the collections of
c la s s ' during oae of tb^bomnia^g^xcurdfnf ^hich I^fmmmudly1n^heUbabit of makin^with the^tudentfo/nw
dUhe e’sh d ,"P° n r aC!grea^ a 6y Mr- Earla; and »" lha Mowing da, upon Ben Lawers bv M o t a / In r “ 0'1 , ? • ^ ”S!derabie’1 fr™ . 3000 * 3300 feet; but it grew s p a r k g ^ d
five bills. The season ( iw S w ^ t ! ” crevl“ a op Iheschistose rocks which form the summits of these respec-
orfor the Sower stalks to H i aas ^ e k “ 1»'end of June) was too early for the blossoms to be in full perfection,
sidered m therfrefw;Lkib • much lenS he"ed out as they would have been at a later season; and, what I con-
That part therefore as w e llf f “]mstaMe,1 Ule 50we? - Ieast E | that 1 examined) were quite destitute of corolla,
well asAose which'fno«6 as. tbe capsule and seeds, I have figured from Captain Parry's specimens, which, as
those which I possess from Lapland, differ m no essential particular from British ones
400 r . *