DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Stellaria. 



4*9 



S. Lower leaves heart-shaped, on leaf-stalks: panicle with ne'morum* 



forked fruit-stalks. 



E. bot. §<:-Kn'ipb. \C-Fl. dan. 271~#. ox. V. 23* 2-Parl. 

 762. \-CoL Ecphr. 290. 2. 



From 5 to 1 2 inches high. Stems very brittle. Whole plant 

 hairy. Leaves rather stiff, underneath hairy only on the veins 

 and mid-rib. Fruitst. the lateral ones solitary, the terminating 



ones forming a kind of leafy panicle, widely straddling and rather 

 turned down after flowering. Flowers white. Styles 3j but in 

 the Cerastium aquaticum always- 5, so that how much soever 



they may resemble each other in general habit they cannot well 

 be mistaken. 



Broad-leaved Stitchnvort. Woods, moist hedges, and banks 



of rivers, in the northern counties. 



_ ^ Westmorel 



dal. Mr. GouGH.~Baydales 



SON.] 



[By Casterton Mill, near 

 J. E. Smith. — Near Ken- 



near Darlington. Mr. Rob- 





J 



Walc.-M, 



7 



obs. 26*. 2-Ger. em. QJ-Pari. 1325-Pet. 58. 1-Gen 



43. 1. 



Leaves spear-strap- shaped, in pairs, at the joints of the stem, 

 sitting; the edges rolled inwards, set with line prickles; mid- 

 rib underneath beset with small prickles ; above smooth, and 

 marked with a hollow groove running lengthwise along the 



middle. Flowers white. 

 Greater St'itchvuort. 



woods 



May, 



S. Petals deeply divided: leaves egg-heart-shaped: stems 



with a hairy ridge on one side. 



E. hot. 537-FI. dan. 525, and ±38-Curt.~SMdr. §-Wale. 

 -Dod. 29. 2-Lob. obs. 2+3. i-Ger. em, t> i i . 2-Pari. 



76Q-H. ox. v. 23. 



■7 



363- 

 489. 



Trag. 3S5-Lonic. i. 10'?. 1 andl-Gtr. 488. 2. and 





This very common plant which grows almost in all situa- 

 tions from damp and almost boggy woods to the dryest gravel 

 walks in gardens, is consequently subject to great alterations in 

 its appearance. Those who have only seen it in its usual state 

 as garden Chick weed, would hardly know it again in woods 

 where it sometimes exceeds half a yard in height, and has leave* 



Holo'stea. 



me 



