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*"* Caps, rounded below or scarcely if at all narrowed ; columella 

 very short. 



2. S. media (Vill.) ; st. procumbent and ascending with a 

 hairy line, L ovate shortly pointed stalked, upper I. sessile, fl. axil- 

 lary and terminal, fl. -pedicels usually not longer than the cal.,fr.- 

 ped. curved downwards and wavy, pet. deeply bitid not exceeding 

 the ovate-lanceolate single-ribbed glandular-pilose sepals, caps, 

 oblong longer than the calyx. E. B. 537. R. v. 222. Very 

 variable in length of st. and joints, size of 1., number of stam. 

 (3 10), and length of styles. Sep. with a narrow scarious 

 margin, glabrous or with long hairs. Fr.-st. reflexed, often 

 scarcely exceeding the leaves. Seeds with round tubercles. L. 

 glabrous with broad ciliate petioles. /3. Alsine pallida (Dam.) ; 

 pet. 0, styles 0, stig. short arcuate, stam. 3, seeds small bluntly 

 and minutely tubercled. 8. Borceana (Jord.). y. S. neglecta 

 (Weihe) 1 ;!. larger with longer stalks, upper 1. sessile lower 

 subcordate, stam. 10, seeds with prominent rounded tubercles* 

 A. III. IX. Common Chickweed. E. S. I. 



3. S. umbrosa (Opiz) ; st. procumbent and ascending with a 

 hairy line, /. narroived gradually into long points, fl.-ped. twice 

 the length of the calyx, fr.-ped. deflexed at the base, otherwise 

 straight, ultimately erect, cal. more narrowed below than in 

 Sp. 2, sep. lanceolate acute tubercular, valves of the caps, nar- 

 rower than in Sp. 2, seeds with prominent acute tubercles. 

 S. Elizabeths Schultz. St. much branched slender with 

 autumnal barren shoots. Fr.-st. much exceeding 1. Moist and 

 shady places. P. IV. VII. E. S. 



4. S. Holos'tea (L.) ; st. ascending angular with rough angles, 

 /. lanceolate- attenuate acute with a rough margin and keel all 

 sessile, cyme panicled, pet. half-bifid twice as long as the lanceo- 

 late very obscurely 3-veined sepals, caps, globose about as long 

 as the calyx, bracts leaflike. E. B. 511. R. v. 223. St. 12 

 feet high, slender and procumbent at the base, thicker upwards. 

 L, gradually narrowing from a little above the base to the very 

 acute point. Fl. large, white, few, in a leafy cyme. Woods 

 and hedges. P. IV. VI. Greater Stitchwort. * E.S.I. 



5. S palus'tris (Eetz.) ; st. erect weak angular smooth, I. linear- 

 lanceolate acute quite smooth sessile, lower 1. broader, fl. solitary 

 or in a few-flowered lax panicled cyme, pet. bipartite exceeding 

 the lanceolate 3-veined sepals, caps, oblong-ovate about as long 



1 Many authors combine this with Sp. 3. The name for the combined 

 species would be S. neylccta (Weihe). H. & J. G. 



