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•-Upright Moufe-ear Chickweed. Jnglh. 

 The ftalks are a foot high, ered, not fo numerous 

 from one root as the preceding, and the leaves 

 more acute. 

 In meadows and paftures frequent. G. IV. V. 



CERASTIUM fioribus pentandris, petalis emar- 

 ginatis. Sp. pL 627. Vaill. Par. t. 30./. 2. Raj. 

 Syn. p. 348. /. 15./. 1. bona) 



The left Moufe-ear Chickweed. AnzUs. 



Upon the hills about Arthur's Seat. Dr. Parfons, 

 G. V. 



It is about hree inches high, commonly fmgle at 

 the root, and very little branched at the top : it 

 has only five fertile Stamina., but fometimes five 

 other barren ones are vifible, without Anthera. 



C. foliis lineari-lanceolatis obtufis glabris, corollis 

 calyce majoribus. Sp. pi. 628. {Vaill. Paris, t. 

 2,0. f. 4^5. bona. Ger. em. 595./. 15J 



Narrow leav'd Moufe-ear Chickweed. Anglis. 



In paftures of a gravelly foil, but not common. I 

 obferv'd abundance of it at the foot of walls up* 

 on the borders of Scotland, near IFerk, not far 

 from Kelfo. V-.V.VL 



The ftalks are weak and reclining : the leav^es not 

 always iVnooth, but moft commonly a little hairy : 

 the petals aie twice as long as the calyx, which 

 readily diftinguifties the fpecics. 



Capfulis fubrotundis. 

 R 



C. foliis 



