144 DECAND.— ^PENTAGYN. 



W'ark, by Kelso, abundant, Lightf. Guillon Links, Mr. Arnott. 

 Near Forfar, D. Don. Fl. June. % . 

 Stems branched and decumbent at the base, only a span high, slender. 

 Floivers large, pure white, 2 or 3, on terminal btalks. Caps, scarcely 

 longer than the cal. 



6. C. ahinuvt {hairy alpine Chicktvecd), subglabrous or clothed 

 with long white soft silky hairs, leaves elliptical ovate, flowers 

 1 — 3, capsule oblong curved. Lightf. p. 242. t.9 (C. latifo- 

 liiim), a good fig. E. B. t. 412. 



Hatj. Highland mountains, not rare, Ben Lomond, Ben Lawers, 



Ben Nevis, &c. FL July. 1/ . 

 Much branched below and creeping, then erect, 3 — 5 inches high. 



Flowers large, handsome, whitt\ Petals bifid at the point. 



7. C. lutifolium [pubescent alpine Ckickweed)., clothed with 

 short rigid yellowish pubescence, leaves elliptical ovate, flowers 

 1—2, "capsule ovate" {Sm.). E. B. t.473. 



Hab. Highland mountains, I suspect, rare. I have gathered it on Ben 

 Nevis, lien hiiwers, Maugli. Ben homoud, Mr. iMurrai/. E. side 

 of Ben Voirlich, Mr. Arnott. Fl. July. 1/ . 



Generally smaller than the last, and probably often confounded with 

 it. The chief distinction is in the vaps. There is also, as Sir James 

 Smith observes, a considerable difterencc in the clothing of the stem 

 and leaves, which in my specimens of lallf. I find to be always yel- 

 lowish. Lowermost leaves frequently glabrous. Flowers large, as 

 in the last. 



8. C. aquuticmu [JVaier Cliickiveed), upper leaves cordato- 

 ovate sessile, flowers solitary, fruit pendulous. Lightf. p. 242. 

 E.B.i.53S. 



Hab. Sides of rivers and ditches, occasionally. Fl. July. If. . 



/^tem 1 — 2 feet long, branched and straggling. Leaves large, lower 

 on€S on footstalks, v/ith short scattered hair's on the edges and mar- 

 gins, whilst those of Stellaria Nemoriim (to which this is so closely 

 allied), besides liaving 5 styles, is only ciliated on the margin, and 

 appears on tlie surface, when seen under the microscope, very mi- 

 nutely dotted vvitli raised pvOints. Stems viscid upwards. The eaps, 

 opens with o toeth or valves. In this respect, too, agreeing best v.'ith 

 Stellarla, where, indeed, Persoon has placed it. 



21. SPERGULA. 



1 . S. arvensis {Corn Spurrey), leaves whorled with minute mem- 

 l)ranaceous stipules at the base, stalk of the fruit reflexed, 

 seeds more or less margined. Light/, p. 243. E. B. i. 1535, 

 and t. 1536 {S.penlandra). 



Hab. Corn-fields, frequent. Fl. Aug. O . 



Stems () — 12 inches high, swelling at the joints. Leaves narrow, li- 

 near, rounded, gla])rous or a little pubescent, of 2 bundles from eacli 

 joint, spreading in a whorled manner. Panicle of many flowers. 

 Pet. ovate, white, rather longer than the cal. Stum, often 5. Seeds 



