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CHRYSOSPLENIUM ALTERNIFOLIUM. Alternate-leaved 
Golden Saxifrage. Boggy places about springs, in wet, 
shady woods, produce this species, which is more rare than 
the other. It leaves are alternate, the lower ones kidney- 
shaped, on long foot-stalks. Flowers im small umbles, deep 
yellow, and more striking than the former species, the plant 
is also earlier in producing its blossoms. 
DECANDRIA. TRYGYNIA. 
THALAMIFLORZ. CARYOPHYLLACES. 
STELLARIA. (SrrrcHwort.) 
Generic Character. See page 94. 
STELLARIA NEMORUM. Wood Stitchwood. Leaves large, 
pear-shaped, and stalked, upper ones oval and sessile; one 
to two feet high, stem weak. Calyx-leaves with white edges. 
Petals narrow, deeply divided in two, and pure white. The 
chief distinguishing mark of this plant is that of having its 
leaves rough, with extremely minute elevated dots. It grows 
in moist woods, principally in the north of England. 
STELLARIA GRAMINEA. Lesser Stitchwort. A more 
common species, and very frequent on heaths, commons, and 
dry pastures, with its little starry white flowers peeping up 
