98 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



oblong approximate lobes. Fruit-pedicels spreading, not roflexed 

 after flowering. Capsule oblong-ovoid, about equal to the sepals. 

 Plant entirely glaucous and glabrous. 



In marshy places. Eather rare, though it occurs in a good 

 many of the English counties, and in Scotland as far North as 

 the neighbourhood of Glasgow and Edinburgh. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Stems slender, 1 to 2 feet high, very brittle, erect, branched 

 in an irregularly forked manner, with the leaves f to 2 inches long. 

 Barren shoots slender, remote. Elowers in a terminal few-flowered 

 cyme, with others terminating branches from the axils of the leaves 

 (these axillary cymes are frequently i*educed to a single flower). 

 Flowers ^ to f inch across, white. Sepals much more distinctly 

 veined and more broadly membranous at the margins than in 

 S. Ilolostca, from which the mode of brandling and inflorescence, 

 as well as the more glaucous colour and the curvilinear margins 

 of the leaves, distinguish it at a glance. The membranous bracts 

 and perfect freedom from liairs or roughness are equally constant 

 but less striking characters. 



Glaucous Marsh Stitchwort. 



French, Stellaire Glauque. German, Meergriines Yogelhraut. 



SPECIES VI.— S TELL ARIA GRAMINEA. Linn. 



Plate CCXXXII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Caryoph. Tab. CCXXIV. Fig. 4911. 



Pbootstock creeping, with numerous barren shoots. Stem diff'use, 

 decumbent or ascending. Leaves all sessile, narrowly elliptical or 

 strapshaped-lanceolate. Flowers generally numerous, in a terminal 

 irregularly dichotomous cyme. Bracts small, oblong, acuminate, 

 scarious, with an hei'baceous central line. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, strongly 3-nerved. Petals equalling or a little exceeding the 

 sepals, bipartite. Fruit pedicels reflexed after flowering, afterwards 

 spreading. Capsule nodding, elliptical-ovoid, a little longer than 

 the sepals. Plant glabrous, not glaucous, with the margins of the 

 bracts and those of the base of the leaves ciliated. 



In meadows, hedges, and amongst bushes, especially on gravelly 

 soUs. Very common throughout the whole of Britain. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Stems 1 to 3 feet high, brittle, decumbent at the base, then 

 ascending. Leaves much resembling those of S. glauca, but usually 



