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DECANDRIA. TRTGYNIA. Stellaria. 



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Otmore, Oxfordshire. Sibthorp. [Marshy ground on the top of 



Braid-hill, near Edinburgh. Mr. Brown. About Falmouth.] 



P. June, July. 



uligino'sa, S. Leaves spear-shaped, very entire: stems trailing: pa- 



nicles lateral. Schkeb. 



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B. Hi. 365. 2. 



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Leaves fringed at the base. Fruit-stalks from about the 

 middle, and from near the end of the stem, in threes, from the 

 bosom of the leaves, the 2 lateral ones dividing into 3, and 

 bearing 3 flowers. Petals shorter than the calyx, divided down 

 to the base, the segments distant. Stamens, 5 inserted into the 

 claws of the petals, the other 5 into as many glands, surrounding 

 the gennen. Leers. Stems several, from 2 to 12 inches high, 

 square, weak, and sometimes creeping at the base, above up- 

 right, extending beyond the panicles, but little branched; 



branches upright. 



Leaves smooth, except at the base, sitting 



Panicles 





or tapering down into short leaf-stalks, upright, 

 pointing one way, sitting, upright, generally 2 on each stem ; 

 mostly consiting of 3 primary branches, the outermost bearing a 

 single flower : the other 2, in the more luxuriant plants, divid- 

 ing into forks, with a fruitstalk bearing a single flower at each 

 fork ; the shorter as long again as the single fruitstalk; and the 



id nearly as long again as the t^d. flower- scales 2, at each 

 fork of the panicle. Petals white; segments strap-shaped. Styles 



sometimes 4 and 5« St. 



S. uDginosa. Schreb. consp pi. ap. spicileg.-r— S. dilleniana. 

 Leers. — S. graminea y Linn./, suec. 393 f and Huds.fl. ang. 

 19{*« Lightf. v-. — Alsine long] folia vhginosis proveniens locis. J* 

 £. ill. 30 . R. Sjtn. 347 .—Alsine font ana. Ger. 4-QO, em. 6*3« 

 Alums aquatica media. Bauh. pin. 251.— Alsine. Hall. n. 882. 

 p.— Bog. Stitchixort. fountain Chickiveed. Sides of springs, 

 rivulets, ditches, and boggy meadows. [Rivulets on the side 

 of Malvern Hills, and on the side of the hill at west end of 



Powick's Ham, near Worcester. St. 

 Leeds. Mr. Wo 



Hockley pool dam, near Birmingham.] 



- Moist grounds, near 

 Marshes in Cornwall. Mr. Stackhouse. 



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ccrastoi 



Dicks, h. s. -Smith pi. ic. I l-fl.^ dan. QQ-Gunn. ii. 

 Jacq 



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_ Stems trailing ; flowering branches ascending, naked, cylin- 

 drical, smooth. Leaves sitting, opposite, egg-oblong, blunt, 

 very smooth, flowers terminating, I, 2 or J, on long fruit- 

 stalks, the lateral ones with a pair of floral -leaves. Petals 





