DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Arenaria. 41* 



cloven, white. Linn, and Smith. It is certainly a Cerastium, 

 differing only in the number of styles, a difference by no means 

 constant. I have found it with 4 and 5, but, I confess, more 

 frequently with 3 only. Its resemblance to C. arvense is very 

 striking. Mr. Brown* 



Found by Mr. Dickson on Ben Nevis, Scotland. [On the 

 side of Ben Bourde, a high mountain 7 miles from Invercauld. 

 Mr. Brown.1 



Au£, 



' * 



ARENA'RIA. CaL 5 leaves, expanding : petals 



5, entire : caps. 1-celkd, many-seeded. 



A. Leaves egg-shaped, acute, fleshy. peploi'des* 



Dicks, h. s-E. hot. 189-FJ. dan. 621-Pet. 65. 9~Ger. em. 

 6*22.-1. 



Glands on the receptacle. Linn. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, 

 somewhat embracing the stem, smooth, succulent, the points 

 turned back. Flowers white. 



Sea Sandwort. Sea shore frequent, and salt water marshes. 



P. June, July. 



A, Leaves egg-shaped, 3-fibred, pointed, on leaf-stalks. trinerVia. 



Curt. ZlZ-Walc.-FL dan. 429-7. B. 3(34. l-Pet. 59- !• 



Stems reclining, downy, cylindrical, several growing* together 

 in tufts. Branches mostly from the upper side. Leaves beset 

 with very short fine hairs, and fringed with short fine bristles; 

 the lower nearly heart-shaped, on flat leaf-stalks ; the upper spear- 

 egg-shaped, nearly sitting. Petals expanding, half as long as the 

 calyx ; white. Stamens as long as the cup; every other shorter. 

 Styles sometimes 2 or 4. Summits bent back, woolly. Has greatly 

 the habit of the Stellaria media. 



Plantain-leaved Sandwort* Woods and wet hedges. 



A. May — July. 



A. Leaves somewhat egg-shaped, acute, sitting; bios- serpyllifolia. 



soms shorter than the calyx. 



Fl. dan. 977-Curt. 268-Ger. 488. 3-2W. 30. \-Lob. obs. 

 24-6. <2~Ger. em. 6l2. 3-iW. 1259. 3-Pet. 59. 2. 



Stems spreading, forked upwards. Leaves stiffish, somewhat 

 Woolly. Flowers white. 



Least Chick-weed. Thyme-leaved Sandwort. Roofs, walls, 



sandy and very dry places. A. May — July. 



A. Leaves semi-cylindrical, tapering-, opposite, as long marina. 



as the joints : stipulse membranaceous, acute, 

 stems prostrate : capsules longer than the calyx. 



