Illecebrum
(from illecebra, an old Latin word, meaning enticement or attraction, applied by Pliny to the Stonecrop). ORD. Illecebraceae. A genus now reduced to a single species, but which formerly included several South European ones now forming the genus Paronychia. I. verticillatum is a small, hardy, glabrous, much-branched annual, thriving best in a moist peat soil. Propagated by seeds.
I. verticillatum (whorled). fl. shining-white, in whorls, in the axils of the leaves. Summer. l. opposite, obovate, green. h. 1in. to 3in. North Africa and West Europe (Britain, only in Devon and Cornwall).