68 CARYOPHYLLACEJ). 



Meadows, and rather damp places ; rery common. B. or P. April — 



September. 

 Found in all the districts, and generally abundant. 

 VII. Common. Primrose HiU. Kensington Gore. Kensington Gardens. 

 Hackney Wick. Isle of Dogs, &c. 

 First record: Merrett, 1666. Small specimens are often named C. semi- 

 decandrum ; this is the case with the Sudbury plant in Herb. Harr. 

 recorded at Melv. 15. 



111. C. semidecandruxn, L. 



C. hirsutum minus j>arvo flore, Cat. Giss. (R. Syn. iii.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 327 ; Comp. 125. Curt. F. L. f. 2. 

 Dry, sandy places and wall-tops ; rather rare. A. April — June. 

 II. Hampton Court ; Newb. 



111. Hounslow Heath, abundant. Wall, Twickenham. 

 IV. Some parts of Hampstead Heath, abundant ! ; Warren. 



V. Abundant in a sandy field at Chiswick. 

 VII. Frequent about London ; Dill, in B. Syn. iii. 348. About Hackney 

 particularly; Curt. F. L. Kensington, 1863; Newb. 

 First record : Billenius, 1724 ; also the first record as British. 



112. C. arvense, L. Field Chickweed. 



Cyb. Br. i. 230 ; ii. 396 ; Comp. 125. Curt. F. L. f. 6. 

 Dry banks and fields ; rare. P. May — July. 

 II. By the Thames below Hampton Court Bridge, H. C. W. ; New B. G. 98. 



By the towing-path near Hampton Court, abundant. Probably 



same locality. 

 IV. Near Hampstead, 1845; Morris (v.s.). Side of N. W. Eailway, bet. 



Harrow Station and Kenton Bridge, in small quantity; Melvill, 16 



(v.s.). 

 V. Abundant in a sandy field by the Thames at Chiswick. 

 First record: H. C. Watson, 1835. 



MOENCHIA, Ehrh. 



113. m. erecta, Sm. Cerastium quaternellum, Fenzl. (Syme E. B.). 

 Holosteum minimum tetrapetalon, ^'c, Bay (Blackst.). Sagina erecta, L. 



(Sm.). Moenchiaglaicca,Pers.{'!few'B.G.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 208 ; iii. 392 ; Comp. 117. Curt. F. L. f. 2. 



Dry, sandy places ; rare. A. April, May. 



I. On Harefield and Uxbridge Commons, abundantly ; Blackst. Fasc. 42. 

 Eoad bet. Harefield and Euislip. 



III. Hounslow Heath, abundant. Near Hatton. 



IV. About Highwood HiU ; Blackst. Spec. 38. On Hampstead Heath ! ; 



Pet. Midd. 

 VII. [Hyde Park ; Bicks. H. 8. In the dry part north of the Magazine, 



