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WATER MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED. C. aquaticum. 



Plate 6, fig. 9. 

 Stem spreading. Leaves heart-shaped. 



A light green, juicy, straggling plant, two or three feet long ; 

 found common on the banks of rivers and ditches, with white 

 and not very large flowers. The leaves are heart-shaped, often 

 waved on the edges. Petals very deeply cleft, scarcely longer 

 than the calyx ; capsule ovate, a little longer than the calyx, 

 bent back, upon a long stalk, and opening with five teeth at the 

 top. The whole plant is rather sticky, particularly at the joints 

 of the stems. 



O. S. Four-cleft Mouse-ear Chickweed, Field Mouse-ear Chickweed 

 Hairy Alpine Chickweed, Broad-leaved Alpine Chickweed; all rare, 

 except the second, which is found iu many places. 



SPURREY. SPERGULA. 



CORN SPURREY. Spergula arvensis. 

 Plate 6, fig. 10. 



Very common in sandy com fields ; flowering in June and 

 July, and growing six or eight inches high. The leaves are 

 linear, in tufts, twenty or more together, growing round the 

 stem. Flower stems some inches long, more and more forked 

 upwards. Calyx leaves ovate, petals not notched at the end, 

 about as long as the calyx. Capsule many-seeded, of five parts 

 or valves, and with their stalks bent downward. Whole plant 

 rough with hairs. The seed is a pretty object for the microscope. 



O. S. -Knotted Spurrey, Pearl- wort Spurrey and Awl shaped Spurrey. 



