228 DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



tains about Loch-Rannoch^ in Athol^ &c. I ob- 

 fe.rv'd it likewife upon the mountains about 

 Loch-Urn, in Invernefsfmre^ and upon the moun- 

 tains of Rum. %. VII. 

 The roots are thick, and grow together in a mat : 

 the leaves are extremely narrow, linear and acute, 

 growing in tufts : the ilalks are about an inch' 

 high, having generally two leaves growing op- 

 pofite upon it, and bearing a fingle flower : the 

 calyx is of a dark red, and the flowers of a bright 

 pink color,, which enlivens the barren mountains 

 exceedingly. 



STELLARIA. Gen.'pl 568. 



Cah 5"phyllus, patens, fetala 5, bipartita. Caps. 

 i-locularis, polyfperma. 



STELLARIA foliis cordatis petiolatis, panicula 

 pedunculis ramofls Sp. 'pi. 603. {Oed. Dan. t. 

 271. opt. Moris, hijl. f. 5. /. 23./. 2. Column, 

 Ecph. L p. 290. t. 290.; 



Broad-leav'd Stichwort. Anglis. 



In v/oods and fliady places, frequently in the low- 

 lands, as about Broomholm and Langholm, in EJ:- 

 dale, and at Springkeld and Hoddam-Cafik, in An- 

 nandak, abundantly : obferv'd alio by Dr. Par- 

 fons, at Meavis-Bank. % . V. VI. 



The fl:alks are about a foot or eighteen inches high, 

 branched in a panicle at top : the leaves are heart- 

 fhap'd, acute, hairy, of a much paler green on 

 the under fide than the upper ; the lower ones 

 fupported by footftalks, which are hairy and 



channei'd; 



