CARYOPHYLLACE^. 93 



Section I.— PETIOLAEES. Fenzl. 

 Leaves ovate or elliptical, sub-cordate, the lower ones stalked. 



SPECIES II.— STELLARIA NEMO RUM. Linn. 

 Plate CCXXVIII. 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Caryoph. Tab. CCXXII. Fig. 4906. 



Rootstock creeping, terminating in erect simple flowering stems 

 with long erect barren shoots at the base. Lower leaves and those 

 of tbe barren shoots ovate, slightly cordate at the base, with foot- 

 stalks frequently as long as the laminae ; uppermost leaves ovate- 

 acuminate, sessile. Elowers numerous, in terminal dichotomous 

 cymes. Sepals broadly lanceolate, obtuse, obscurely 3-nerved, with 

 nari'ow scarious margins, the herbaceous jiart with a few articulated 

 hairs towards the base. Petals twice as long as the calyx. Stamens 10. 

 Fruit-stalks spreading or reflexed. Capsule drooping, about as long 

 as the sepals, oblong-ovoid. Stem with articulated hairs, and 

 sometimes a few shorter gland-tipped ones intermixed. 



In woods and shady places. Not very common. Most abundant 

 in the North of England and in the South of Scotland, extending, 

 however, from Devon and Cornwall to Dumbarton and Moray, 

 but quite absent from the South-East of England and extreme 

 North of Scotland. 



Stems fragile, 1 to 2 feet high, terminating in a single dichoto- 

 mous cyme, without others developed from branches in the axils of 

 the stem-leaves. Barren slioots G inches to 1 foot long. Leaves 

 broadly oval, acuminate. Elowers white, f to f inch across, with 

 the petals bipartite, with narrow slightly-diverging lobes. Seeds 

 orange-brown, rugose, with small vesicular papillae. Plant pale 

 green, with soft articulated hairs, occasionally intermixed with a 

 very few shorter gland-tipped ones. 



Wood Chickioeed, or Wood Stitchioort. 



French, Slellaire dea Bois. German, Uain-Vogelkraut. 



SPECIES III.— STELLARIA MEDIA. With. 



Plate CCXXIX. 



Alsine media, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 389. 



Eoot annual, producing diffusely - branched decumbent or 

 ascending stems. Lower leaves ovate, with footstalks frequently 



