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Information biennial, quite glabrous, glaucous; stems prostrate, branching; leaves alternate, fasciculate, fleshy, linear-terete, sub-acute; stipulary sheathes broad, with acuminate teeth; peduncles, pedicels and calyces sparsely tuberculate or smooth; peduncles axillary, once or twice as long as the leaf, 2–4 flowered; pedicels much shorter than the peduncle; stamens 5; seeds 3-angled-pyriform, very smooth. A leafy herb, very like H. verrucosa, but differing in the prostrate stems, shorter peduncles, and few stamens. Branches whitish. Leaves 1/2–1 inch long, 1/2 line wide. Stipules white. Peduncles 1–1 1/2 inches long; pedicels 2–4 lines long. Sepals 1 line, in fruit 1 1/2 line long, with a wide, white margin. Anthers sub-globose. Stigmata sessile. Capsule globose, as long as the calyx or a little longer. Seeds shining, brown.

Information A perennial shrubby herb up to 30 cm. high with ascending procumbent or creeping branches 5–40 cm. long. Leaves alternate or subopposite, and also in axillary fascicles on short side-branches at the nodes, linear, succulent, glaucous, subcylindrical, often with wart-like glands, 12–60 mm. long, 0.5–1.0 mm. wide. Stipules membranous, triangular, somewhat divaricate, arising from the expanded membranous margins of the leaf-bases. Pedicels 3–9 cm. long, usually smooth but sometimes (like the pedicels and calyces) with a few obscure glandular warts. Stamens 5. Fig. 6.

Information Shrubby perennial glaucous herb up to 30 cm. high, woody at base, with ascending, procumbent or creeping branches. Leaves 23–55 mm. long, alternate, subopposite or crowded in axillary fascicles on short side branches, linear, succulent, glaucous, subcylindrical, often with wart–like glands; stipules membranous, triangular, with somewhat divaricate acute or acuminate lobes, arising from the expanded membranous margins of the leaf–bases. Inflorescences with stout peduncles 4–10 cm. long, smooth or sometimes with a few obscure glandular warts. Flowers up to 4 mm. long, greenish or whitish, on pedicels up to 1 mm. long ascending at first but deflexed in fruit, more or less smooth. Perianth–segments 5, up to 4 mm. long, greenish or whitish, more or less smooth. Stamens 5. Fruit longer than perianth. Seeds brown, triangular in outline, smooth and shining, usually with a distinct ridge.