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They BRiITs1 § H  HiE RB A,L. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, 
and are very fall, and white: they fcarce ever 
~ open. 
The feed veffel is fmall, and opens in three 
parts, and contains three feeds, 
It is common in places where water is juft dried 
up; and flowers in June. f 
_ Ray calls it Mine parva paluftris tricoccos foliis 
portulace. Merret, Alfine flofculis conniventibus. 
We, in Englith, Blinks. 2 
17. Round -leaved creeping Chickweed. 
Abfine pufilla repens foliis rotundis. 
This is a fingular and very elegant fpecies. 
The root is long, flender, and white: it creeps 
up under the furface, and fends out tufts of 
fibres in different. places, 
The leaves rife in clufters three or four toge- 
ther at {mall diftances, and they ftand fingly on 
long and very flender footftalks: from the fame 
fpot, where they rife, there grow alfo fmall, creep- 
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1. Large-fruited rock Chickweed. 
Afine petrea fruétu majori. 
The root is flender, divided into many parts, 
and furnifhed with numerous, fibres. 
The ftalks are flender, upright, and toward 
the tops divided into feveral branches. 
The leaves are {mall, oblong, narrow, and of 
a pale green: they are broadeft toward the 
middle, and terminate in a point. 
The flowers are numerous and {mall : they are 
‘white, and ftand on fhort, flender footftalks. 
‘The feed-veffel is round -and large; and the 
feeds are {mall, numerous and brown. 
It is frequent on the mountains in Germany ; 
and flowers in Auguft. ‘ 
C. Bauhine calls it Aine minor link capitulis. 
Gefner, Alfine petrea, 
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ing ftalks, which run upon the ground, and fend 
up other clufters of leaves in different places. 
The leaves are fmall, round, and dented at the 
edges ; and they are of a pale green. 
The flowers are very fmall; they ftand fingly 
on tender footftalks rifing from the bofoms of 
the leaves ; and they are of a pale flefhy colour. 
The feed-veffel is very fmall, and the feeds 
are minute and few. 
It is not uncommon on the fides of hills in our 
weftern counties, but is fo fmall that it is eafily 
overlooked. It flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Aline fpuria pufilla repens folii; 
Jaxifrage aurea. 
Thefe fpecies of Chickweed are all fuppofed to 
poflefs the fame qualities with the common kind; 
but they have not been much regarded. 
The common chickweed has the credit of being 
cooling and diuretick ; but little notice is taken 
of it. Outwardly it is cooling, but neither way 
demands much notice. 
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REIGN SPECIE’: 
2. Great Chickweed with ferrated leaves, 
Aine maxima foliis ferratis. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, 
The ftalks are round, firm, ereét, a foot and 
half high, and of a pale green; and they are not 
at all branched. 
The leaves ftand in pairs without footftalks : 
they are very large, and broadeft at the bafe, 
where they meet in fo clofe a manner that the 
ftalk appears to grow through them: they are 
fharply ferrated atthe edges, and pointed attheends, 
The flowers grow at the tops of the ftalks, 
and are large, and fnow white ; they confift each 
Of five petals divided pretty deeply at the tips. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous, rounded, and flatted, 
It is common among rocks in Italy; and 
flowers in Auguft. 
Menzelius calls it Aine maxima Solanifelia. 
Usans VI. 
MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED. 
CHEER: AST, PUNE ee 
i ha flower is compofed of five petals, nip’d at the ends, 
is long, crooked, obtufe, and dented into five parts art 
Jeaves, and remains when the flower is fallen. 
Linnzus places this among the decandria pentagynia 
ftyles from the rudiment of the capfule five, 
We are unlucky in that we have no Englifh fin 
from the fhape of the feed-veffels 
in moft of the fpecies; but thefe 
ceraftium. 
Linnzeus is reduced to the neceffity of makin 
acknowledges there is a fpecies whi 
~In this Linneus is right, 
fpecies of ceraftium, 
which the prefent clafs is formed is the having t 
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ch have only five ftamina, 
that this plant, which has onl 
though the reft of the plants of that 
uncertainty of the charaéters on which he eftablithes claftes 3 
en threads. 
and regularly difpofed: the feed-veftel 
he end: the cup is compofed of five 
3 the threads in the flower being ten, and the 
gle name for'this genus: we call it horned chickweed, 
3 and moufe-ear chickweed, from the form 
being all compound terms, 
and hairynefs of the leaves 
it is better to ufe the Latin name 
: an exception at the bottom of his charaéter of this 
genus, as of the former, which overthrows the charaéter 
of the greater arrangement of the clafg: he 
ly five threads, is a proper and certain 
name have ten: but this fhews the 
for the great and fingle circumftance on 
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