48 Botany. 



230. MYOSOTON aquaticum, Mcench, (STELLARIA AQUATICA, 

 Scop. MALACHTUM AQUATICUM, Fries), 7 8, P. In wet 

 places ; not common. 



1. Plentiful by Darenth Church. Dod. 



2. Bank of Ravensbourne, Southend, Catford, '06. W.H.G. 



3. Bank of Darenth, Shoreham, '01. W.H.G. 



a. Cator Estate, Beckenham, '97. Sc. 



b. Old records from Deptford, Lewisham and Beckenham. 



(67) STELLARIA, L. (STITCHWORT) ; petals sometimes absent. 



232. S. media, Villars, (CHICKWEED), A. Abt. everywhere ; fls. 



all the year round, but during the winter the fls. are often 

 cleistogamic and self -fertilised. 



var. b.) Borseana, Jord. (ALSINE PALLADA, Dum.) 

 1. Isle of Grain. Jackson. 



233. S. neglecta, Weihe (UMBROSA, Opiz.; under MEDIA, B. & H.), 



4 7, P. Moist shady places ; very rare. 



1. Plentful in thicket by Darenth Church. Dod. 



234. S. holostea, L. (GREATER STITCHWORT), 4 6, P. V. com. 



in woods, hedges, and roadsides. 



236. S. graminea, L. (LESSER STITCHWORT), 5 7, P. Com. on 



heaths and in dry sandy pastures. Fls. bi-sex. but stamens 

 often reduced or absent. 



237. S. uliginosa, Murr. 5 7, A. Bogs ; common. 



1. Keston, Reeves (and still there, '06). 



2. Mary Cray Common, '05. R.H.C. 



241. MINUARTIA tenuifolia, Hiern (ARENARIA, L. M. LEPTO- 



PHYLLA, Groves), 6 7, A. Dry sandy or chalky ground ; r. 



a. Near Hayes. Cole. 



b. First record, c. 1680 ; near Dartford. 



(68) ARENARIA, L. (SANDWORTS). 



242. A. trinervia, L. 5 7, A. Shady hedgerows and damp 



places ; common. 



a. First record : Charlton Wood, Martyn, 1763. 



243. A. serpyllifolia, L. 68, A. (P. in the Pyrenees). Dry 



ground, walls ; very common. 



var. b.) glutinosa, Koch. 



1. Grain Spit. M. and Dod. 



var. c.) leptoelados, Guss. (different sp. Brit. Mus. Cat. and 

 Bab.). Top of Railway bank, Pett's Wood, Paul's 

 Cray Common, '05. W.H.G. 



