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CATALOGUE OF PLANTS.
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field);— Southwest Harbor; Sea Wall; Norwood Cove; High
Head; Bar Harbor, etc. (Rand);— Great Cranberry Isle (R.
& R.).
SPERGULA, L. SPURREY.
S. ARVENSIS, L. CORN SPURREY.
A common weed in cultivated ground. Adventive from C.B.P.K.
Europe. M. Carl. 6K. Puc D. 4k+ Bic.T
Forma RUBRA.
Flowers deep pink. Field, Salisbury Cove (Rand).
PORTULACACEÆ. PURSLANE FAMILY.
MONTIA, L. BLINKS.
Sepals 2, ovate, persistent, herbaceous. Petals 5, united at
base, 3 somewhat smaller. Stamens 3, rarely more, on the tube
of the corolla. Ovary free, 3-ovuled: style 3-cleft, very short.
Capsule 3-valved, 3-seeded. Seeds black, dull, tuberculate, rarely
smoothish or shining.—A small branching glabrous succulent
annual, with opposite leaves, and small axillary or racemose
flowers. Bot. Cal., i. 77.
M. fontana, L.
Stems procumbent or ascending, 1 to 3 inches long: leaves
spatulate to linear oblanceolate, 3 to 9 lines long: flowers a line
long or less: capsule globose. (Bot. Cal., l. c.) Rare. Damp,
brackish ground, Great Cranberry Isle (Rand);— Great Duck
Island (Redfield). The only stations thus far known within the
limits of Gray's Manual, or in Eastern U. S. Common, however,
farther north, and on Pacific shores. Daith R+
PORTULACA, L. PURSLANE.
P. OLERACEA, L. PURSLANE. PURSLEY.
Cultivated and waste grounds. Bar Harbor (Rand, W. H.Q.K.
Manning);— Long Pond (Rand). As yet a very uncommon
weed on the Island, and probably introduced since 1880. Natu-
ralized from Europe.