SAGINA, in botany, a genus of the tetrandria tetragynia class. The calix consists of four leaves, and the corolla of four petals; the capsule has four cells, and four valves, containing many seeds. There are three species, two of them natives of Britain, viz. the procumbens, or pearl wort; and the erecta, or the least ditch wort.
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