AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
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A NOT very common plant of the CaryopHyL- 
LACEZ 1s Malachium aquaticum, or Cerastium, 
Great Water Chickweed, much like Szellaria 
nenorum,; its weak stems are covered with 
glandular hairs. 
There is some difference between authors as 
to the genus of the pretty pale pink-flowered 
Sand-Spurrey, one of this Nat. Order; with 
one it is Spergularza, with another, Lepzgonum,; 
the leaves are generally linear, sometimes 
fleshy. In the case of A/szxe and Arenaria, 
the Sandworts, there is also a disagreement. 
Three species occur of Jmfatiens, Balsam, 
Nat. Ord. BALSAMINACE# ; the capsule has five 
elastic valves, which, if touched when ripe, 
suddenly roll inwards, often leaping to a dis- 
tance, whilst the large brown seeds are jerked 
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