Ayre's* Purslane Family               Waghorne  

This family resembles the chickweeds, but as a rule two sepals and five or no petals. Succulent leaves.

	423.	A. 423. WATER-BLINKS. Montia rivularis Gmel. A few inches. Opposite leaves. Minute Flowers.–Wet Banks of little brooks, N. Amer., Nfld.–July. B. 424. Montia lamprosperma Cham. Tiny Plants. Flowers soon closing; on long pedicels. N. Amer., Nfld. July. Growing with rivularis. Giuseppe Monti, 17th century, Italian botanist.

*Agnes Marion Miller Ayre. Wild Flowers of Newfoundland.
St. John's, Newfoundland : Published privately by A.M. Ayre, 1935, p. 105