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deeply cleft, segments linear scarcely longer than the 3-nerved 

 leaves of the calyx. E. Bot. t. 803. 



Dry pastures, fields and heaths, common. Fl. Miw. 1^ . — 1 foot high, 

 more slender than the last, and readily distinguisliable by its much 

 sm-JiWex flowers ; large and hxM\c\\mg panicle ; 3-nerved calyx ; ■d.nA en- 

 tire leaves, which are, moreover, by no means so much acuminated. 



5. S. glauca. With, (^glaucous Marsh Stitchwort); stem nearly 

 erect, leaves linear-lanceolate entire glaucous, flowers upon long 

 solitary axillary footstalks, petals very deeply cleft their seg- 

 ments much longer than the 3-nerved calyx. E. Bot. t. 825. 



Wet, marshy places, margins of lakes, &c. Fl. June, July. y. . — 

 Equally slender with tlie last, 1 foot high. Floivers next in size to those 

 of S. holostea. Readily known from that and S. graminea by its nar- 

 rower, glaucous leaves ; solitary, axillary _/?o;rers ; and the narrow calyx- 

 leaves, which, as in the last, are three-nerved. 



6. S. uliginosa, Murr. {Bog Stitchwort); leaves ovato-lanceo- 

 late entire with a callous tip, flowers in dichotomous panicles, 

 petals bipartite shorter than the leaflets of the calyx which are 

 combined at the base. E. Bot. t. 1074. — S. graminea, jS. L, 



In ditches and rivulets, frequent. Fl. June. 0. — This species, be- 

 sides having the calyx-leaves combined at the base, has truly perigynous 

 stamens and petals. St Hilaire, who makes of it his Genus Larbroia 

 (in honour of the Abbe de Larbre,) seems to think it more allied to his 

 Order Paronychiece than to the Caryophyllem. Its general habit, how- 

 ever, is surely that of a Stellaria, from all the other species of which it 

 is distinguished by the comparatively \mn\xie petals. 



7. S. cerastoides, L. {alpine Stitchwort); stems decumbent 

 with an alternate hairy line, leaves oblongo-spatliulate, pedun- 

 cles 2 or 3 mostly terminal downy as is the calyx which is about 

 half the length of the bifid corolla. E. Bot. t. 911. 



Breadalbane mountains of Scotland, and mountains to the north of 

 that great range. Fl. July, Aug. If .—4— 6 inches long. Lower part 

 of the stein bare of leaves and much branched. Leaves glabrous or 

 hairy, subsecund and subfalcate, as observed by VVahlenberg ; their 

 points callous. Flowers large, pure white. Sir J. E. Smith states 

 that the styles are sometimes 4 and 5 ; and the capsules, on my speci- 

 mens, have some 6 and some 10 teeth ; so that this plant has as great 

 a claim to rank with the Cerastia as with the Stellarics. 



8. S. scapigera, Willd. {matiy- stalked Stitchivort); stem short- 

 er than the flowerstalks, leaves linear-lanceolate crowded pubes- 

 centi-scabrous at the margin, calyx 3-nerved as long as the 

 petals. E. Bot. t. 1269 (leaves too broad). 



Hills to the north of Dunkeld and about Loch Nevis, G. Doji. Fl. 

 June. 14. . — I possess only cultivated specimens of this remarkable plant, 

 which was first described by Willdenow. He attributes to it single-flow- 

 ered ;jerfM?ic/es ; but in my plants these peduncles, of which many arise 

 from the extremity of very short stems, are mostly branched in the mid- 

 die, where they have 2 small, ovate, acute, membranaceous bracteas. 



