THE STITCH- WORT. 265 



compound ; but so common is the use of it, that 

 this was probably an accidental circumstance. 



The remaining British stitch-worts, are the pure 

 white-flowered wood-plant (8. nemorum) ; the least 

 stitch-wort (S. grawiinea), which so abounds on dry 

 heaths and pasture lands; the marsh stitch-wort 

 (8. glduca) ; the minute-flowered bog stitch- wort 

 (8. uliginosa) ; the Alpine stitch- wort (8. ceras- 

 to'ides), which has its most southern British boun- 

 dary in the Bredalbane mountains, and which should 

 perhaps more properly take its place with 8. ce- 

 rdstia ; and the many-stalked 8. scapigera, a very 

 marked and peculiar plant, which grows in the 

 neighbourhood of Loch Ness, Dunkeld, &c. 



