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species, the narrow foliage of which makes it more graceful- 

 looking. 



The Little Mouse-ear (C. semidecandrum), is stiff in its 

 growth like a tiny shrub, and its petals are less cloven. I 

 found it on the railway line in a similar situation to that of the 

 Thyme-leaved Sandwort. 



The Four-cleft Mouse-ear (C. tetrandrum), with its four petals 

 and four stamens, forming a single exception to the five petals 

 and ten stamens of the family, grows on Braid Hill, near 

 Edinburgh. 



The Alpine Mouse-ear we are not in possession of. 



