CARTOPIIYLLACE^. 93 



Section I.— PETIOLAKES. Fend. 

 Leaves ovate or elliptical, sub-cordate, the lower ones stalked, 



SPECIES II.— STELL ARIA NEMORUM. Linn. 

 Plate CCXXVIII. 

 Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Canjoph. Tab. CCXXII. Fig. 4906. 



Rootstock creeping, terminating in erect simple flowering stems 

 ■vrith long erect barren shoots at the base. Lower leaves and those 

 of the barren shoots ovate, slightly cordate at the base, with foot- 

 stalks frequently as long as the laminae ; uppermost leaves ovate- 

 acuminate, sessile. Flowers numerous, in terminal dichotomous 

 cymes. Sepals broadly lanceolate, obtuse, obscurely 3-nerved, with 

 narrow scarious margins, the herbaceous part with a few articulated 

 liairs towards the base. Petals twice as long as tlie calyx. Stamens 10. 

 Fruit-stalks spreading or reflexed. Capsule drooping, about as long 

 as the sepals, oblong-ovoid. Stem with articulated hairs, and 

 sometimes a few shorter gland-tipped ones intermixed. 



In woods and shady places. Not very common. Most abundant 

 in the North of England and in the South of Scotland, extending, 

 however, from Devon and Cornwall to Dumbarton and Moray, 

 but quite absent from the South-East of England and extreme 

 North of Scotland. 



Stems fragile, 1 to 2 feet high, terminating in a single dichoto- 

 mous cyme, without others developed from branches in the axils of 

 the stem-leaves. Barren shoots 6 inches to 1 foot long. Leaves 

 broadly oval, acuminate. Flowers w'liite, f to f inch across, with 

 the petals bipartite, with narrow slightly-diverging lobes. Seeds 

 orange-broAvn, rugose, with small vesicular papillae. Plant pale 

 green, with soft articulated hau's, occasionally intermixed with a 

 very few shorter gland-tipped ones. 



Wood Chickioeed, or Wood Siiichwo7't. 



French, SteUaire des Boia. German, Hain-Yogelkravi. 



SPECIES III.— S TELLARIA MEDIA. With. 



Plate CCXXIX. 



Alsine media, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 389. 



Root annual, producing diffusely - branched decumbent or 

 ascending stems. Lower leaves ovate, with footstalks frequently 



