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on tlie upper fide, and cream-color'd under- 

 . neath, furnifh'd each at the bale of the limb 



with two ferrated auricular appendages. The 



Jiamina are ten, the piflils three. The fruit an 



oval capfule with five valves, and three cells, 



containing numerous feeds. 

 In hot weather the plant is vifcid to the touch, 



and the petals are clofcd till the evening. 

 Pheafants, I am informed, are very fond of the 



feeds. 



tenuifoUa. ARENARIA foliis fubulatis, caule paniculato, 

 capfulis eredis, petalis calyce brevioribus lan- 

 ceolatis. Syjl. nat, edit. 13. -p. 354. ^p- />/. 

 607. (Vaill. paris. 7. t. 3. /. i. bon. Oeder. 

 Dan. t. 389 ?) 



Fine-leav'd Chickweed. Anglis. 



Upon walls, rocks, and Honey barren foils, but 

 rare. Upon Cramond ifland in the Forth, Mr. 

 Talden. %. VI. Vll. 



The ftaiks are three or four inches high, erect^ 

 fmooth, and branched towards tlie top into a 

 kind of panicle, compofed of feveral flowers, 

 fupported on very flender peduncles. '< 



The leaves are fmooth, fubulate, furrow'd, broad 

 at the bafe, and coalefcent, rendering the ftalk 

 knotty at their union. 



The leaves of the calyx are generally. fmooth, oft- 

 times 



