CLASS X. ORDER III.] STELLARIA. 647 



Root small, librous. Stem erect, from one to two inches high, 

 simple, rarely branched, square, smooth, crowded in the lower part 

 with leaves. Leaves linear, lanceolate, about an inch long, with a 

 keeled mid- rib, the margins fringed with short soft hairs, or roughish, 

 opposite, a cheerful green, becoming reddish as they fade and remain 

 long upon the plant. Flowers mostly numerous, terminating the stem 

 in a short branched forked panicle, or the flowers solitary, on long 

 peduncles, in a cluster. Peduncles slender, square, two inches long, 

 or longer. Bracteas thin, membranous, lanceolate, with a tapering 

 point, keeled with the mid-rib, and fringed with soft hairs. Calyx of 

 lanceolate acute three ribbed segments, downy, with a membranous 

 margin. Petals white, as long as the calyx, deeply divided into linear 

 acute segments. Stamens with linear awl-shaped //awfwis, as long as 

 the petals. Anthers roundish, of a reddish colour. Styles slender, 

 spreading, with downy curved stigmas. 



Habitat.— VWWs on the north of Dunkeld, and about Loch Nevis, 

 Scotland.— lir. G. Don. 



Perennial ; flowering in June. 



This is a very remarkable plant, quite unlike any other known 

 species, and does not appear to have been found in any place out of 

 England. It is very rare, and we have not been able to procure wild 

 specimens ; but our cultivated ones do not diff"er from them, except 

 being rather larger and stouter plants. 



Sect. 5. Larbrea, St. Hilaire. Koch. Flora Germ, et Heir. p. 119. 

 Capsule separating to the middle or below into six valves, attenuated 

 at the base; the calyx segments united at the base into a short 

 funnel shape ; stem square. 



9. S. uligino'sa, Murray. (Fig. 737.) Bog Stitchwort. Stem square, 

 smooth, branched, spreading ; leaves ovate lanceolate, with a callous 

 tip, sessile, smooth, ciliated at the base ; panicle forked, terminal and 

 lateral ; bractea lanceolate, membranous, smooth ; calyx in narrow 

 three ribbed lanceolate segments, smooth, and united into a conical 

 base, longer than the small bifid petals. 



English Botany, t. 1074.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 303.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 208. — S. graminea, y. Linn. — S. aquatica, 

 Pollich.—De Cand. Prod. p. 1. p. 398.— Larbrea aquatica, St. 

 Hilaire.— De Cand. Prod, p 3. p. 365. (in note.)— Lindley, Synopsis, 

 p. 51. 



/3. undulata. Leaves glaucous, with a waved margin. 



Root small, fibrous. Ste7n smooth, square, branched and spreading, 

 slender, from four to twelve inches high. Leaves opposite, sessile, ovate 

 lanceolate, or elliptic lanceolate, with an obtuse callous tip to the point, 

 about half an inch long, quite smooth, except a few soft slender 

 spreading hairs at the base, which are not always present, mid-rib 

 slender, keeled below, of a dull pale green, sometimes glaucous, the 

 margin entire or waved. Panicle of few flowers, lateral and terminals, 



