2972.
ARENARIA leptoclados.
Slender Sandwort.
DE CA NDRIA Trigynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-leaved. Petals 5, entire or
slightly emarginate. Capsule 1-celled, many-
seeded, opening with 6 valves or teeth.
Spec. Char. Leaves small, ovate, acute, sessile. Petals
shorter than the calyx. Sepals lanceolate,
acute, 3-veined, hairy on the veins. Capsules
ovate-ohlong.
Syn. Arenaria leptoclados. Guss. FI. Sic. Syn. v. 2.
824 (1845). Lloyd, Fl. de VOuest de la France, 77.
Bor. Fl. Centre de la Fr. ed. 3. 109. Godr. Fl. Lorr.
ed. 2. v. 1. 123. Brebis. Fl. Normand, ed. 3. 55.
Bab. Fl. Cambr. 304 ; Man. Brit. Bot. ed. 5. 53.
A. serpyllifolia, Ten. Syll. PI. Fl. Neapol. 219. Guss.
Fl. Sic. Syn. v. 495. Lloyd, Fl. Loire, 42.
A. serpyllifolia, j3. leptoclados. Reich. Icon. Fl. Germ,
v. 5. t. 216.
A. serpyllifolia, y. tenuior. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. ed. 2.
128. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. 4. 52.
T h i s plant is much smaller in all its parts than A. serpyllifolia
(t. 923), and of a paler green. Stems very slender,
branched, spreading, clothed with minute deflexed hairs.
Leaves ovate, acute, sessile; the lower ones narrowed to their
base. Flowers springing from the forks of the stem or axils
of the leaves, their peduncles at least twice as long as the