Minuartia Minuartia, (Sibth. & Sm.) Bornm. Minuartia Minuartia, (Boiss.) Hand. - Mazz.

1. M. thymifolia (Sibth. & Sm.) Bornm. View in CoL , Beih. Bot. Centr. 31 (2): 193 (1914).

Annual, stems up to 6 cm, often branched at the base, sparsely glandular-pubescent above. Leaves 3-6 x 1 mm, linear-spathulate, somewhat fleshy. Cymes more than 10-flowered, dense; pedicels up to 1 | times as long as sepals. Sepals 2-5-3-5 mm, ovate-oblong; petals and capsule slightly longer than sepals. Seeds 0-4 mm, smooth. Maritime sands. Once recorded from Kriti, locality not specified.?Cr. (K Mediterranean.)

2. M. mesogitana (Boiss.) Hand.-Mazz. View in CoL , Ann. Naturh. Mus. (Wien) 26: 148 (1912).

Annual; stems up to 12 cm, decumbent, branched at the base. Leaves linear, somewhat fleshy. Cymes lax; pedicels patent. Sepals2-25-3-5 mm, ovate-lanceolate; petals and capsule 1-1 i times as long as sepals. Dry places. S. & E. Bulgaria; S.E. Romania; Samothraki . Bu G r Rm. (S. W. Asia.)

3. M. viscosa (Schreber) Schinz & Thell. View in CoL , Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. 2, 7: 404 (1907)

( Alsine viscosa Schreber ).

Annual with rather slender, erect stems branched usually from above the middle; branches usually erect, more rarely erecto-patent; plant glandularpubescent, often densely so, rarely glabrous. Leaves 4—9(—12) mm, linear-subulate. Cymes lax; pedicels 3-8 mm, slender. Sepals 2-3(-3-25) mm, lanceolate; petals distinctly shorter than sepals. Capsule shorter than sepals. Seeds 0-3-0-4 mm, almost smooth. 2« = 46. Dry sandy places. Widely distributed, but local, from E. France to C. Russia, and from S. Sweden to Makedonija. Au Bu Cz D a G a Ge?Gr He H u It Ju Po Rm Rs (C, W, E) Su Tu.