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130 CARYOPHYLLE# (Sond.) [Cerastium. 
12%. Githago segetum, Desf. Lychnis Githago, Lam. Encycl. 111. 
p. 643, ms 
Has, In corn fields ; introduced from Europe. 
One to two feet high. Flowers purple, handsome. 
Sub-Order II. Arsinez, (Gen. iv.-v.) 
IV, STELLARIA, L. 
' Calyx 4-5 parted. Petals 4-5, bifid or bipartite. Stamens 8-10, or 
rarely fewer. Styles 3, filiform. Capsule unilocular, many-seeded, 
opening by 6 teeth, Hndl. Gen. 5240. DC. Prod. 1. p. 396, 
Cosmopolitan herbs and weeds of cultivation. Leaves opposite, broad or narrow, 
generally glabrous. Cymes dichotomous. Flowers small and white, on long pedun- 
cles. Name from stella, a star, from the star-like flowers. 
1. S. media (Villars, Delph. IIL. p. 615); stems diffuse, ascending 
or erect, with a line of hairs along one side ; leaves with ciliate petioles, 
ovate, acute, quite glabrous, the upper ones sessile ; flowers solitary, 
and terminal ; pedicels long, pubescent ; petals as long as the 
calyx or shorter. JZ. Bot. t. 537. Alsine media, Iin. Schk. t. 85. £. 
& Z.! 264. 
Has. A weed in cultivated ground, everywhere ; introduced from Europe.— 
“ Chickweed.” 
Annual, Stems terete, 3-12 inches long. Petals sometimes minute or altogether 
deficient. Stamens 3~4, often 5, rarely 10. 
V. CERASTIUM, L. 
Calyx 4-5-parted. Petals 4-5, bifid. Stamens 4-10. Stigmas 4—-5- 
Capsule unilocular, many-seeded, opening by 8-10 teeth. 
Annual or perennial, cosmopolitan weeds and small herbaceous plants, generally 
~. = Pag: ; sometimes — Stems dichotomous. Flowers cymoid, 
and white. 
* Macropetala ; petals Guldaretly longer than the calyx, Root perennial. (Sp. 1-2.) 
the Tretia Dbrevint, pm 
crowded, —— and 
