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men, of whose industry it is the raw material, but to the 
far wider populations of the tropics which depend upon 
it, almost wholly, for their clothing. 
Next come the St. John’s Worts, of which in England 
we have thirteen examples. Although you may have 
some difficulty in deciding which is which of them, there 
is very little labour required to assign them to their 
group. The flowers are always yellow, rather of the con- 
ventional star pattern, and usually grouped in heads. The 
plants themselves are usually somewhat stiff and rigid, 
and many of them are marked by clear transparent dots 
in the leaves, the result of large oil-glands, which barely 
intercept the light. The Large-flowered St. John’s 
Wort is rather an exception. The flowers, about one and 
a half inches across, are solitary, the leaves large and 
glossy. It may be often found in gardens and shrubberies, 
and occasionally wild, bearing in some parts of the 
country the name of “ Rose of Sharon.” The petals and 
sepals keep strictly to the typical five. 
A large and handsome group is 
composed by the Campion family, 
whose ornamental members one meets 
in gardens as Pinks, Carnations, and 
Sweet Williams. At the other end of 
the scale of their magnificence come 
- the tiny Chickweeds, or Stitchworts, 
the handsomest representative being 
the Stellaria, or Greater Stitchwort. 
This plant we may thank for the 
graceful white flowers that adorn the 
ditches in spring, with their fine-cut 
petals and modest, bending heads. is ae 
The Chickweed group, so far as we STELLARIA, 
