144 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
among the furze, heath, and larger plants. The leaves are 
long and narrow, acute and entire. Its small flowers, with 
petals very deeply cleft, growing in a loose bunch, readily dis- 
tinguish it from the rest. It is about a foot high, and slender. 
STELLARIA uLIGINosA. Bog Stitchwort. This scarcely 
fiowers till June, and with SreLttart1a eLauca, Glaucous 
Marsh Stitchwort, is found in watery places, ditches, and 
margins of rivers; those mentioned before belonging to 
much drier situations. The former has oval, lanceolate, 
entire leaves ; flowers with very small petals, shorter than 
the calyx. The latter has very narrow and smooth leaves. 
Flowers large, (though not attaining the size of holostea) on 
long solitary footstalks. Petals very deeply cut, and longer 
than the calyx. Slender, and about afoot high. Two other 
species belong to this genus, but they are rare, and only 
found on the Scotch mountains. 
DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. 
THALAMIFLORZ. CARYOPHYLLACES. 
LYCHNIS. (Catcurty.) 
Generic Character. Calya of one leaf divided into five at the 
top. Petals five, notched at the edge, and with scales at the 
throat. 
