302 DECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Stellaria. 



Caryophyllus arvensis glaber, flore majore. Bauh. Pin. 210. 

 C. holosteus arvensis glaber, flore majore. Rail Syn. 346. 

 Gramen. Fuchs. Hist. 136./. 

 G, leucanthemum. Ger.Em.47.f. Dod. Pempt. 563. f. Dalech. 



Hist. 422./. 

 G. alterum. Corner. Epit. 743. f. 

 Holosteum Ruellii. Lob. Ic. 46./. 

 Euphrasia gramen. Trag. Hist. 329. f. 

 Great Stitchwort. Pet. H. Brit. t. 58./. 1 . 



In groves, thickets, and dry hedge bottoms, common. 



Perennial. May. 



Root creeping. Stems 2 feet high, square, leafy ; panicled at the 

 top ; weak and recumbent at the bottom ; angles rough in the 

 upper part. Leaves 2 or 3 inches long, spreading almost hori- 

 zontally, glaucous, single-ribbed, rough- edged, taper-pointed. 

 Fl. large and handsome, of a brilliant white, on long downy 

 panicled stalks, with a pair of small taper-pointed bracteas at 

 the base of each stalk. Cal. concave, minutely veiny, smooth, 

 neither keeled nor ribbed. Pet. broad, cloven only half way 

 down. Stam. always 10, and styles 3. Caps, globular. 



The stems have a strong, woody, elastic, internal structure, like 

 those of the last-described, and many others of this tribe ; but 

 are otherwise remarkably brittle. The herb sticks, by their 

 rough angles, and the edges of the leaves, to any thing that 

 comes in its way. 



4. S. graminea. Lesser Stitchwort. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, entire. Panicle terminal, spread- 

 ing. Calyx three-ribbed, nearly as long as the petals. 



S. graminea. Linn.Sp. Pl.QU. Willd.v. 2. 7 II. Fl.Br.475. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 12. t. 803. Hook. Scot. 136. H. Dan. f. 414. Wuhlenb. 

 Lapp. 123. Hoffm. Germ, for 1800. 203. 



5. arvensis. Hoffm. Germ, for 1791. 152. Ehrh. Herb. 126. 

 Alsine n. 882. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 387. 



Caryophyllus arvensis glaber, flore minore. Bauh. Pin. 210. 

 C. holosteus arvensis glaber, flore minore. Raii Syn. 346. 

 Gramini Fuchsii leucanthemo affinis et similis herba. Bauh. Hist. 



v.3.p. 2.361./. 

 Holostii Ruellii diversitas. Lob. Ic. 46. f. 

 Lesser Stitchwort. Pet. H. Brit. t. 58./. 3. 



In heathy pastures, or bushy places, on a gravelly or sandy soil. 



Perennial. May. 



Smaller than the last, and of a grass green, not glaucous. The 

 weak and brittle, smooth, leafy stems support themselves on the 

 surrounding bushes, and the delicate wide-spreading panicles, 

 with their little white starry blossoms, seem suspended in the 

 air. The leaves are not much more than an inch long, smooth 



