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CARYOPHYLLACE^E. 



inbushy places, seem to have made an unusually rapid 

 growth. Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



3. S. grammea (Lesser Stitch wort). Stem nearly 

 erect, angular, smooth ; leaves very narrow, acute, smooth, 



STELLARIA HOLosTEA (Greater Stitchworf) . 



edged ; flowers in forked panicles ; petals very deeply 

 cleft, scarcely longer than the 3-nerved sepals. Dry 

 heathy places. Much smaller than the preceding in all 

 its parts, and distinguished at once by the very deeply 

 divided petals, which are white, but not so showy. Fl. 

 June, July. Perennial. 



