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broader and with the margins generally ciliated at the base, and with 

 the colour far less glaucous. Flowers much more numerous, in a 

 dichotomous cyme, with falsely paniculate branches, from ^ to ^ 

 inch across, or even more. Sepals much more strongly 3-ribl)ed 

 than in S. glauca. Seeds sub-globular, slightly depressed, dark 

 brown, with lengthened ridges presenting somev\ hat the appearance 

 of the surface of the human brain. 



Stellaria scapigera (Willd.), which is said to have been found by 

 Don by the sides of rivulets between Dalwhinnie Inn and the old 

 Kirk of Las^gau, Perthshire, and by Loch Kevis, Inverncss-shirc, 

 is a])parently a monstrosity of S. gramiuea, and probably from. 

 Don's garden; some plant he met Avith being mistaken by him 

 for the same as the one he had in cultivation. Like many other 

 abnormal forms, it appears to be constant under cultivation. 



Lesser Stltchioort. 



French, Stellaire Qrammee. German, Grassbldtiriges Vogelkraut. 



SPECIES VII.— STELLARIA ULIGINOSA. Murray. 

 Plate CCXXXIII. 



ijarbrea uliginosa, Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et llelv. Vol. V. Caryoph. Tab. CCXXVI. 



Fig. 3669. 

 L. aquatica, St. Hil. in D. C. Prod. Vol. III. p. 666 (non Seringe). 



Root annual. Stem decumbent, much branched. Leaves 

 sessile, oblong - lanceolate or narrowly elliptical, attenuated at 

 each end. Flowers few, in small dichotomous cymes, which are 

 sometimes terminal, but more commonly lateral, or both terminal 

 and lateral. Bracts lanceolate, nearly entirely membranous. Sepals 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, with 1 distinct and 2 faint nerves. Petals 

 bipartite, considerably shorter than the sepals. Fruit pedicels 

 spreading, appearing enlarged at the tip, from the sepals being 

 united at the base. Capsule ovoid, a little longer than the sepals. 

 Plant glaucous and glabrous, with only the bases of the leaves 

 ciliated, but even these are often without marginal hairs. 



In marshes and ditches. Very common throughout the whole 

 of Britain, both in low ground and by rills on high mountains. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer. 



Stems numerous, from 6 to 18 inches long, or even more, 

 brittle and succulent, weak. Leaves flaccid, numerous, ascending; 

 the lower ones rather obtuse ; the middle and upper ones acute ; all 

 with a small callous point. Cymes generally pseudo-axillary, few- 

 flowered, most commonly sessile, sometimes reduced to solitary 

 ' flowers. Flowers \ inch across, white. Sepals very narrow, united 



