20 THALAMIFLOEJB. 



places, and dry stony pastures, very common. A diminutive 

 plant, with many decumbent branches j seldom more than 2 

 inches high. Leaves nearly linear. Flowers small and white. 

 Abundant about Torquay and its neighbourhood. (E. B. t. 880.) 

 P. v. ix. 



2. S. apetala (annual small-flowered P.) In dry gravelly 

 places and on walls. More slender than the last, less branched 

 and with narrower leaves ; petals of the flowers very small or 

 wanting. Torquay, etc., abundant. (E. B. t. 881.) P. v.-ix. 



3. S. nodosa (knotted P., or Spurrey.) In wet, sandy, or 

 marshy places. Plant from 2 to 3 inches high, with many de- 

 cumbent stems. Lower leaves long and sheathing ; stem-leaves 

 shorter, with little tufts of young leaves in their axils. Flowers 

 on short stalks, white, and large in comparison with the size of the 

 plant. Bovey Heath. Gridleigh, near Chagford. Spergula^ Linn. 

 (E. B. t. 694.) P. vn. vni. 



4. S. subulata (awl-shaped P., or Spurrey). Gravelly and 

 stony pastures. Plant small, decumbent at the base, branched, 

 with long solitary flower-stalks. Leaves much like those of S. 

 procumbens, but longer. Flowers white. Forde, near Newton. 

 Haldon. (Spergula, E. B. t. 1082.) P. vi.-vm. 



ARENARIA. SANDWORT. 



1. A. serpyllifolia (Thyme-leaved S.) On walls, dry banks, 

 and waste places. From 3 to 6 inches high, very much branched, 

 slender and slightly downy. Leaves sessile, very small, acutely 

 ovate. Flower-stalks slender, arising from the forks of the stem. 

 Flowers small and white. Park Hill, Torquay. (E. B. t. 923.) 

 A. vi.-vm. 



2. A. trinervis (three-nerved S.) In moist places and shady 

 woods. Plant from 4 or 5 inches to a foot long, tender and much 

 branched, hairy. Leaves oval, with acute ends, stalked, light 

 green, and with 3 distinct nerves. Flowers solitary, white. Wood 

 near Shiphay. Moehringia, Bab. (E. B. t. 1483.) A. v. vi. 



STBLLARIA. STITCHWORT. 



1. S. media (common ChicJcweed or S.) In waste places and 

 by roadsides. Stem weak, very variable as to size, much branched, 

 and without hairs, with the exception of an alternate hairy line. 



