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smaller flowers, large and branching panicle, 3-nerved mh 

 entire haves, which are, moreover, by no means so much aciim^' ""'^ 

 Bracts membranaceous, ciliated. Anthers red. The leaves h " 

 hairs of the cilia in the common form, and of the pubescencriJfl' 



decurved. The station assigned by Don to our var. j8. has been !l"" ' 

 universally misquoted : this however is of little consequence «'' 

 now believe that plant to exist nowhere in a wild state but t 1 ^'^ 

 mere cultivated form o^ S. graminea.^ Don cultivated' it exten.iv .' 

 m his garden at Forfar, -from which we have specimens' tT ^ 

 originally described by Willdenow, from a plant in the Berlin JJ^ 

 who does not say from whom it was received ; but it is not evon "^' 



jectured to have been from Scotland, and has not been found °"' 



where else: it was soon introduced into our gardens" tr'ea'ted"'^ ""^ 

 alpine plant, and increased by division, but not by' seed, althou!! 

 seed IS produced sometimes freely. • ' ^""'"^"g" 



6. S. uliginom Murr. {Bog S.) ; leaves ovato-lanceolate entlro 

 with a callous tip, flowers in dichotomous panicles, petals binir 

 tite shorter than the sepals, which are combined at the IZ 

 E. B. t. 1074. S. graminea ^. Z. Larbrea St. Hil. '' 



_ In ditches and rivulets, frequent. 0. 5, 6 This and the proced- 



ingspecies, besides having the sepals combined at the base, havetrnlv 

 perigynous petals. Its general habit is that of Stellaria, from all th'e 

 other species of which it is distinguished by the comparatively minute 



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13. IIoLosTEUM Linn. Jagged Chick weed. 



Cal. of 5 sepals Pet. 5, jagged at the point. Stamens 

 S—5. btyles 3. Caps, subcylindrical, 1 -celled, many-seeded, 

 opening at the extremity with 6 teeth. — Named from oXor, all, 

 and oartov, hone, by antiphrasis, the texture being the very re- 

 verse, soft and delicate. 



1 . H. unibelldtum R. (umhelliferous J.) ; leaves elliptical 

 ovate acute, flowers umbellate, peduncle pubescent viscid, pedi- 

 cels reflexed after flowering at length erect. E. B. t. 27. 



Rare, on old walls about Norwich, Burv, Eye, and Yarmouth. 

 Hills near Bowling Bay, Scotland. 0, 4.— A singular and Interesting 

 plant, the original Holosteum oi lAnnaaws. 



14. M<E^NCHiA Ehrlu Moenchia. 



^ CaL of 4 sepals. Pet 4, entire. Siam. 4 or 8. Styles 4. 

 taps, of 1 cell, many-seeded, opening with 8 teeth at the ex- 

 tremity. — Name given in compliment to Conrad Mcench, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany at Hesse Cassel. 



^ In the Glasgow Botanic Garden we have repeatedly observed S.grnminealo 

 spring up ui the vicinity of pots in which S, scapigera was cultivated, and about 

 which It had shed its seed. 







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