GREATER STITCHWORT 141 
It is a humus-loving plant requiring a peaty loam or humus soil, 
usually growing in or near woods, or sheltered tracts where vegetable 
matter collects. 
The microfungi Puccenza arenarie and Ustilago violacea are para- 
sitic on it. 
The leaves are galled by Arachycolus stellarte. Melampsorella 
Caryophyllacearum (Witches’ Broom of Silver Fir) also attacks Great 
Stitchwort. The beetle Casszda odsoleta, the moths Marsh Pug 
Photo. B. Hanley 
GREATER STITCHWORT (Sée/laria Holostea, L.) 
Eupithecia pygme@ata, Gelechia tricolorella, G. maculea, Coleophora 
solitarted/a visit it, and the Hemipteron Szphonophora fist. 
Flolosteum, Dioscorides, is from the Greek holes, all; osteon, bone: 
and is used by antiphrasis to express the very opposite. S¢ed/aria is 
from the Latin for star. 
The plant is called Adder’s-meat, Adder’s Spit, Agworm-flower, 
Allbone, Bachelor's Buttons, Easter Bell, Billy White's Buttons, Bird’s- 
eye, Bird’s-tongue, Brandy-snaps, Break-bones, Cuckoo-flower, Cuckoo- 
meat, Cuckoo’s Victuals, Dead Man's Bones, Devil's Corn, Devil’s 
Eyes, Easter Flower, Scurvy, Snake and Star Grass, Headache, 
Lady’s Lint, Lady’s White Petticoat, May Flower, May-grass, Milk- 
