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bruised, a good cooling application to wounds, and ulcers. Fl. 

 open from nine in the morning until noon, unless rain, after 

 which, they for some time droop. Shoots and Is., eatable when 

 boiled, like young spinach. 



S. holostea. Great St. Leaves spear-shaped, finely 

 saw-toothed. Petals inversely heart-shaped. Calyx 

 without ribs. E. B. 511. C. 2. 30. Gramen leu- 

 canthemum. G. E. 47. 



Groves, thickets, dry hedge bottoms. 



Per. May. 



Anciently called white flowering gi'ass. Rather glaucous. Stems 

 trailing at the base, slender, supporting themselves erect among 

 bushes, and grass, square, brittle, woody in the inner part. Ls. 

 opposite, stalkless, long, sharp-pointed, mid -rib sharp, the 

 surface slightly glaucous. Stem fork-terminating, somewhat 

 panicled. i^/..sto/A-*, long, solitary. Cor. white, large. Anth. 

 yellow. F'd. white. Very ornamental spring^^. 



S. grammea. Less St. Leaves linear-spear-shaped, 

 entire. Panicle terminal, spreading, calyx three-ribbed, 

 nearly as long- as the petals. E. B. 803. 



Heathy pastures, bushy ^^luces, gravelly, or sandy soil. Sm. 



Per. July. 



Its white starry Jl., conspicuous : herbage concealed by bushes, or 

 grass: stalks of the panicle very slender. Habit of St. holostea, 

 but size smaller, not glaucous. Fl. white, panicle straddling. 

 Cal.-ls. pale; pet. segments linear, deeply divided. Anth. pale- 

 reddish. 



S. glauca. Glaucous Marsh St. Leaves linear-spear- 

 shaped, entire, glaucous. Flower-stalks partly scat- 

 tered, erect. Calyx three-ribbed, half as long as the 

 petals. E. B. 825. S. media. Sb. 141. 



Moist meadoivs, bogs, on gravel. Sm.* Otmoor. Sb. Between 

 St. Clement's, and Iffley. Bx. 



Per. July. 



Discrim, From St. graminea by its glaucous colour, smooth /. 

 edges, and stem, larger fl. pet. nearly twice as long as the cal. 

 Fl. -stalks more universally from the sides of the stem, and soli- 

 tary, less panicled. Three cal.-nerves less prominent. In size 

 and habit approaches St. holostea, which wants the caly.v-nerves, 

 and rough leaf, and stem edges. The anthers are pale-reddish. 

 Lower fl. solitary, axillary. 



S. uUginosa, Bog- St. Leaves elliptic-spear-shaped, 

 entire, with a callous tip. Flowers irregularly pani- 

 cled, from the sides of the stem, or terminal. Petals 



