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** Caps, rounded below or scarcely if at all narrowed; colu- 

 mella very short. 



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

 an alternate hairy line, L ovate shortly pointed stalked, upper L 

 sessile, fl. axillary and terminal, pet. deeply bifid 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., size of 1., number of stam. (3 10), and 

 length of joints. Sep. with a narrow scarious margin, glabrous 

 or with long hairs. Pet. sometimes wanting. Fr.-st. reflexed, 

 often scarcely exceeding the leaves. L: glabrous with broad 

 ciliated petioles. /3. /S. neglect a (Weihe) ; 1. larger with longer 

 stalks, upper 1. sessile and subcordate slightly clasping, stam. 10. 

 y. S. umbrosa (Opitz) ; 1. narrowed gradually into long points, 

 cal. more narrowed below, sep. lanceolate acute glabrous but 

 tubercular, valves of the caps, narrower, seeds with prominent 

 acute tubercles. St. much branched, slender. Fr.-st. much ex- 

 ceeding the leaves. S. grandiflora (Ten.) Woods. Common. 

 y. Sussex. A. III. IX. Common Chickweed. 



3. S. Holostea (L.) ; st. ascending angular with rough angles, 

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

 sessile, fl. in a forked panicle, pet. half bifid twice as long as the 

 lanceolate veinless 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. gradu- 

 ally narrowing from a little above the base to the very acute point. 

 Fl. large, white, few, in a leafy panicle. Woods and hedges. P. 

 IV. VI. Greater Stitchwort. 



4. S. fflauca (Wither.) ; st. erect weak angular smooth, I. linear- 

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

 or in a few-flowered lax corymb, pet. bipartite exceeding the 

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

 the calyx, bracts with scarious and glabrous margins. E. B. 825. 

 R. v. 223. S.palustris Retz. Usually glaucous. St. 612 in. 

 high, leafv. Fl. rarely solitary. Pet. white, sometimes much 

 exceeding the cal., segments linear. Marshy places. P. V. 



5. S. graminea (L.); st. diffuse angular smooth, L linear-lan- 

 ceolate acute quite smooth ciliated below sessile, fl. in a dichoto- 

 mous panicle, pet. bipartite equalling or exceeding the 3-veined 

 sepals, caps, oblong longer than the calyx, bracts scarious ciliated. 

 E. B. 803. St. 12 feet high. Fl. smaller than those of the 

 last 2, white. Shorter or longer pet. accompany an imperfection 

 of the stam. or germen, [S. longifolia (Fr.), S.Friesiana (Koch), 

 has the upper part of its stem and the edges and keel of its leaves 



