AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 79 
The Red Campion, Lychuzs diurna, loves 
damp hedge-banks and wet copses, where it 
forms very handsome beds. In moist places 
also you find ZL. /Vos-cuculz, Ragged Robin, with 
petals deeply 4-cleft. ZL. vespertina, White 
Campion, displays its white flowers in the dusk 
of evening, and almost in the dark, whence the 
name vespertina, as distinguished from JZ. 
dturna, whose red blooms are visible only in 
daytime; it is observable that the two species 
do not often appear both plentiful in the same 
neighbourhood. The flowers of L. vespertina 
are dicecious; only stamens on one plant, a 
large germen on the other. About Midsummer 
the pretty Lychnis Githago, Corn Cockle, will 
appear among the grain crops. 
The corn-fields and sandy ground have now 
the Corn-Spurrey, Spergula arvensis, a small 
plant with white flowers, linear leaves convex 
above, channelled beneath, and deflexed fruit- 
stalks; you will find also Scleranthus annuus, 
Knapwell, a densely growing plant with green 
flowers often solitary in the forks of the stem. 
Also Arenaria trinervis, and A. Serpyllzfolia, 
two Sandworts, the former a weak-branched 
little plant in damp places, with 3-ribbed acute 
