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Paronychia (old Greek name used by Dioscorides, meaning whitlow-wort, or a cure for whitlow, a disease of the fingers or toes). Caryophyllaceae; by some separated in Illecebraceae. Whitlow-wort. Annual and perennial little herbs, without showy flowers, adaptable to rock-gardens and borders.

Paronychia (old Greek name used by Dioscorides, meaning whitlow-wort, or a cure for whitlow, a disease of the fingers or toes). Caryophyllaceae; by some separated in Illecebraceae. Whitlow-wort. Annual and perennial little herbs, without showy flowers, adaptable to rock-gardens and borders.

Plant tufted, low, with minute clustered fls. and silvery stipules; erect or diffuse, often dichotomously branching: lvs. opposite, broad or narrow, entire, the margins flat or very rarely recurved; stipules prominent, scarious, shining: fls. minute, without petals, axillary or rarely in terminal cymes, usually hidden among the stipules; sepals 5, awned; stamens 5; staminodia 5 (sometimes wanting), bristle-like or reduced to teeth; style 2-cleft: fr. an urticle inclosed in the calyx.—Species about 50, largely in the Medit. region, but widely distributed; several are native in the U. S. A very few are cult, in the hardy border. The two European species here given do not appear in the leading catalogues, domestic or foreign, but P. serpyllifolia is said to be much used for carpet-beddinç abroad. P. argéntea furnishes the Algerian tea. Allied to Herniaria, which see for generic differences. The species described below are perennials. They are of simple cult. ; prop, by seed and division.

Plant tufted, low, with minute clustered flowers and silvery stipules; erect or diffuse, often dichotomously branching: leaves opposite, broad or narrow, entire, the margins flat or very rarely recurved; stipules prominent, scarious, shining: flowers minute, without petals, axillary or rarely in terminal cymes, usually hidden among the stipules; sepals 5, awned; stamens 5; staminodia 5 (sometimes wanting), bristle-like or reduced to teeth; style 2-cleft: fruit an urticle inclosed in the calyx.—Species about 50, largely in the Medit. region, but widely distributed; several are native in the USA very few are cult, in the hardy border. The two European species here given do not appear in the leading catalogues, domestic or foreign, but P. serpyllifolia is said to be much used for carpet-bedding abroad. P. argentea furnishes the Algerian tea. Allied to Herniaria, which see for generic differences. The species described below are perennials. They are of simple cultivation; propagated by seed and division.

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