DECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Stellaria. 209 



****** Stems single-lowered. 

 10. S. acaul'is. Moss Campion. 



Stems tufted, much branched. Leaves linear, acute, fringed 

 at the base. Stalks terminal, solitary, single-flowered. 

 Calyx smooth. 



S. acaulis. Lbm.Sp.Pl. 603. Fl.Lapp.n. 184. ed.l. I45.ed.2. 152. 



Willd. V. 2. 709. Fl. Br. 472. Engl. Bot. v. 16. ^. 1081. Hook. 



Scot. 135. Light/. 227. t. 12. f. 1. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 1. 8. 



Fl. Dan. t.2l. Allion. Pedem. v. 2. 83. t. 79./. 1. 

 Cucubalus acaulis. Linn. Sp. Pl.ed. 1. 415. Huds. 187. 

 Viscago n. 9 1 9. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 399. 

 Lychnis alpina minima. Rati Syn. 341. 



L. alpina pumila, folio gramineo. Bauh. Pin. 206. Dill. Elth. 206./. 

 L. ocymoides muscosa. Barrel. Ic. t. 379, 380. 

 Caryophyllus pumilio alpinus. Ger. Em. 593./. 

 Ocymoide moscoso alpino. Pon. Bald. 199./. 1. 

 Muscus alpinus, flora insigni, dilute rubente. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 



760./ 



On the summits of the loftiest mountains. 



Upon the steep and higher rocks of Snowdon, almost every where ; 

 Mr. Llwyd. Ray. Found in Devonshire, by Mr. Gidley. Dill. 

 On all the elevated mountains of Scotland. Hooker. Near the 

 summit of Ben Lomond plentifully. 



Perennial. June, July. 



The very long and branching roots penetrate deeply into the clefts 

 of rocks, and are crowned by short, branched, densely tufted, 

 leafy, moss-like stems ,• for the plant is not really acaulis, though 

 destitute of the elevated stem proper to most of its genus. Leaves 

 opposite, crowded, linear, bright green, smooth, except a slight 

 fringe at the base, as well as on the broad ^palc footstalks, which 

 sometimes extends to the acute point of each leaf. Fl. terminal, 

 solitary, on smooth simple stalks, variable in length. Cal. smooth, 

 tinged with violet, the teeth blunt, minutely fringed. Pet. of an 

 elegant rose-colour, occasionally white, slightly, and not always, 

 cloven at the extremity, and bearing a minute cloven scale at 

 the base of the limb. Caps, ovate, becoming cylindrical as it 

 ripens, and finally twice as long as the calyx, opening by 6 valves 

 at the summit. The /lowers have no scent, but they constitute 

 one of the most charming ornaments of the green-headed Scot- 

 tish Alps, which, seen from the still loftier Ben Lomond, resemble 

 the waves of a boundless ocean. 



235. STELLARIA. Stitchwort. 



Linn. Gen. 226. Juss. 301. Fl. Br. 472. Lam. t. 378. Ga:rtn.t. \30. 

 Alsinc. Tourn. f. 126./ A,B,D,E. 



