HERNIARIA ciliata.
Ciliated Rupture-wort.
P EN TAND R IA Digynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft, persistent. Petals 5, filiform,
inserted with the 5 stamens upon a fleshy
disk. Stigmas nearly sessile. Fruit 2-seeded,
indehiscent, covered by the calyx.
S pec. Char. Stems herbaceous, prostrate, clothed
with very minute decurved hairs. Leaves orbicular
ovate, ciliated. Clusters of sessile flowers
axillary upon the lateral branches and distinct.
S yn. Herniaria ciliata. Bah. in Linn. Trans, v. 17.
453. Prim. FI. Sam. 39. Hooker Br. FI. ed.
4. 126.
Herniaria. Ray Syn. 160.
T H I S plant has been usually confounded with H.glabra,
t. 206, but any person who will take the trouble of comparing
that plate with the present, will be convinced of the
great difference which exists between them. Our present
subject is very abundant about the Lizard Point, in Cornwall,
growing upon a gravelly soil, and on the tops of
walls arid hedge banks ; it also occurs in one place in
Guernsey, upon a stony spot by Port de Fer. The specimen
figured was sent from the former locality by Mr. Borrer
and the writer in July 1839.
Plant dark green. Stems procumbent, spreading extensively,
but scarcely rooting, covered with minute decurved
hairs. Leaves ovate or nearly orbicular, ciliated, nearly
sessile. Stipules minute, white, membranous, triangular-
ovate, ciliated. Flowers small, green, collected into clus