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The leaves are fmall, oblong, and natrow. 
The flowers are fmall and white: they ftand 
on flender foorftalks, and many open tog:zther. 
The {eed-veffel is fmall, and the feéds are nu- 
merous and roundifh. 
Ivis. not uncommon in Kent and Suffex in dry 
barren places, It flowers in July. 
J. Bauhine calls it d/fine tenuifolia; and others 
have continued in general the name unaltered. 
1x. Little grafly-leaved Chickweed. 
Alfine pufilla folits graminis flore magno. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
numerous fimall fibres. 
The ftalks aré flender, upright, not at all 
branched, and about four inches high. 
The leaves ftandin pairs, at moderate diftances, 
and pointing upwards: they are oblong, narrow, 
fharp-pointed, and of a fine green; fo that they 
very much refemblé ends of fimall grafs leaves. 
The flowers are very large, and {now white: 
two or three ftand on the top of the ftalk, and 
they confift each of five large petals, which are 
not divided at the ends, but terminate in a point. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are nu- | 
merous, and very minute. 
It is common in our northern counties on 
rocks, and the fides of high hills. It flowers in 
April. 
Ray calls it A/fine pufilla pulchro flore folio tenu- 
iffimo noftras, five Saxifraga pufilla caryophylloides 
flore albo pulchellos a name longer than the plant. 
12. Cluftered-leaved Chickweed. 
‘Alfine foliis anguftis crebris flore majore. 
‘The root is fmall and flender, white, and fur- 
nifhed with many fibres. 
The ftalks are very numerous, flender, ridged, 
upright, and about five inches high: they are of 
a pale green, and they fend out frequent branches. 
The leaves ftand very thick : the principal ones 
are placed in pairs at fmall diftances from one 
another, and their bofoms are crowded with 
clufters of others; fo that they appear covered 
with them. 
They are narrow, oblong, and fharp-pointed : 
on the upper farts of the ftalks the principal 
leaves are lefs diftinguifhable ; and they cover the 
branches at the joints, as the leaves of heath. 
The flowers ftand fingly at the tops of the 
branches, and of the principal ftalk; and they 
are very large, and white. 
The feed-veffel is fmall and round; and the 
feeds are minute and numerous. 
It. is common in damp places, and flowers in 
June. 
C, Bauhine calls it A/ine nodofa Germanica. 
J. Bauhine, Arenaria. The common writers call 
it Saxifraga poluftris Anglica; and we, Englifo 
marfo faxifrage, and Fine-leaved faxifrage. 
13. Little roundifh-leaved Chickweed. 
Alfine parva foliis fubrotundis. 
The root is fmall and fibrous. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and branched : 
they are of a pale green, and five inches high in 
favourable foils, in other places not above three. 
N° 18. 
The leaves ftand in paits, and aré fmall and 
roundith} of a thin; tender fubftance; arid obfcure 
green. 
The flowers ate fmall and white. 
The feed-vefléls are large, and of ah ovat 
figure; and the feeds numérous and yellowiths 
of a rounded figuré, but flatted. 
Tt is not uncommon in the diy paftures of 
Buckingharnfhire; and flowers in July. 
Ray calls it AVine montana minima acini effigié 
rotundifolia, and others follow him: 
i4. Latge-fruited fed Chickweed. 
Aline maritima pufilla frutin magio. 
The toot is long; thick, and furnithed with 
a great many fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous atid fliott: they are 
fpread upon the ground, and fo covered with 
leaves that it is hard to diftinguith their form. 
The leaves are fhort and broad, pointed at the 
end, and of a bluifh green. 
They ftand in pairs; but generally: grow the 
oppofite ways; fo that they looks upon the whole, 
to be difpofed croffwife. 
The flowers are {mall and white; and the feed= 
| veflels are oval : they are remarkably large for fo 
“f{mall a plant, and contain numerous feeds. 
It is common on out fea-coafts, and flowers in 
June. 
‘ 
C. Bauhine calls it Aline litoralis portulace 
foliis. Others, Anthyllis maritima lentifolia. 
15. Procumbent natrow-leaved Chickweed. 
Aifine maritima procumbens abguftifolia. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The ftalks are very numerobs, fmall,; weak, 
and of a pale green: they fpread every way up- 
on the ground, and are four inches long, and very 
much branched. 
The leaves are numerous: they ftand in pairs, 
and are full of young ones, and of {mall fhoots 
of branches, in their bofoms ; fo that the whole 
plant is very bufhy. 
The leaves are fhort, and narrower than thofe 
of the laft mentioned fpecies. 
The flowers rife from the bofoms of the leaves 
all the way up the ftalks: they are numerous, 
fmall, and white. : 
The feed-veffels alfo are fmall; and the feeds 
minute and numerous. 
Jct is common on our fea coafts, and flowers 
in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Anthyllis maritima chame- — 
fyebe fimilis. Ray, Alfine maritima fupina foliis 
chamafices. Our people, Sea knotgrafs, and Sea 
chickweed. 
16, Small-flowered water Chickweed, 
Alfine paluftris flofculis parvis. 
The root is fmall, divided, and full of fibres, 
The ftalks are numerous, fmall, irregularly 
branched, and about an inch and half high, 
The leaves are placed in pairs: they are ob- 
long, thick, and of a frefh green; obtufe at the 
ends, and not at all divided at the edges. 
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