22 THALAMIFLOBJE. 



at the ends. Flowers white and small, petals bifid. Common in 

 fields, etc. C. glomeratum, Bab. (E. B, t. 789.) A. iv.-ix. 



2. C. viscosum (narrow-leaved M.) Fields, waste grounds, 

 and on the tops of walls. A larger, coarser, and more spreading 

 plant than the last. Leaves longer and narrower ; flowers larger, 

 and gathered together in close clusters, or in a loose forked pani- 

 cle. Frequent about Torquay. (E. B. t. 790.) A. iv,-ix. 



3. C. semidecandrum (little M.) In dry places and on wall- 

 tops. Plant from 2 to 6 inches high, downy ; leaves broadly 

 ovate, sessile ; stem branching at the top into a panicle bearing 

 niany small white flowers. Meadfoot Cliffs. Marychurch, Paign- 

 ton. (E. B. t. 1630.) A. iv. v. 



4. C. pumilum. A very viscid variety, classed by Bentham 

 with the last. Daddyhole Plain, on the slope opposite Yilla 

 Syracusa. 



MALACHIUM. MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED, 

 WATER STARWORT. 



M. aquaticum (water M. orS.) Banks of rivers and ditches. 

 Plant from 1 to 3 feet high, branched arid straggling, covered 

 with glandular hairs ; leaves large, oval heart-shaped, sessile ; the 

 root-leaves stalked. Flowers coming from the forks in the stem, 

 white. The plant has much the appearance of a Stellaria. In a 

 ditch by the side of a lane leading to Forde bog from the Newton 

 road. Banks of the Dart, near Totness. Banks of the Teign and 

 Exe. Cerastium, Linn. (E. B. t. 538.) P. vii. Vlll. 



OKD. XY. LINAGES 

 FLAX. 



1, Ii. iisitatissixnum (common F.) Found sometimes in corn- 

 fields. An elegant- looking plant, from 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves 

 distant and alternate, lanceolate; flowers large, of a beautiful pur- 

 plish blue, in an imperfect corymb. Exmouth. (E. B. t. 1357.) 

 A. vii. 



2. L. angustifolium (narrow-leaved pale F.) Sandy and 

 chalky pastures, usually near the sea. From 1 to 2 feet high, 

 irregularly branched ; leaves linear-lanceolate ; flowers pale blue. 

 Park Hill. Daddyhole Plain. Babbicombe down* (E. B. t. 381.) 

 P. vii. 



