130 DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Spergula. 



Waste, sandy ground. Walls, 



An. April. 



In habit resembling C. viscosum, but smaller in every part, 

 herbage more frequently reddish. Stems spreading at the base, 

 upper part most clammy. Fl.-stalks longer than caL, bent back, 

 after flowering, finally erect. Cal.-h. margin conspicuously 

 white, dilated. Pet. white, mostly shorter than cal. Stam. 

 seldom above five. Caps, about twice as long as the cal. 



C. arvense. Field Gh. Leaves linear-spear-shaped, 

 bluntish ; fring-ed at the base. Petals twice the length 

 of the calyx ; capsule shorter. E. B. 93. C. 6. 29- 

 Caryophyllus Holostius. G, E. 595. 



Fields on gravel, or chalk. Sm. Between the Parks and Wolvercot. 

 Stanton Harcourt. Between Witney, and Burford. Sb. Be- 

 tween Elsfield and Noke Lane, at the back of the Red Lion, 

 in Stow Wood. B.r. Road crossing the Hundred Acres, Bul- 

 lingdon. R. W. 



Per. 3fay, June. 



Stems very numerous, trailing at the base, tufted, four or five inches, 

 branched alternately, round, leafy. Fl. terminal, two or three, 

 white, large, pe^. heart-shaped, veined. Germ, globular. Caps. 

 valves transparent. 

 Fl. resemble those of Stel. holostea, but somewhat smaller. 



C. aqudticum. Water M. Leaves heart-shaped, stalkless. 

 Flow^er-stalks from the side of the stem, solitary. 

 Capsules drooping, egg-shaped, with five cloven teeth. 

 Petals deeply divided. E. B. 538. C. 1. 34. Alsine 

 major. G. E. 611. 



Watery places, margins of rivers and ditches. 



Per. .July. 



Stems two f., weak, trailing, unless supported ; branched, or forked, 

 leafy, round, hairs glandular, prominent. BarJc. very brittle, 

 woody part tough. Ls. opposite, pointed, waved, mostly stalk- 

 less. Fl.-stalks single^., from between the Is. and from the side 

 of the stem-joint. Pet. white, about as long as the cal. Caps. 

 deeply splitting. 

 In habit, deep-cut pet., shape of caps, rather a Stellaria; the 



five styles, however, are constant. This plant resembles Stellaria 



nemorum. Larbrea of DC. 



SPE'RGULA. Spurrey. 



S. arvensis. Corn Sp. Leaves whorled. Stalks when 

 in fruit bent back. E. B. 1535. C. 5. 31. Saginse 

 Spergula. G. E. 1125. 



Sandy coriifields. 

 An. June. 



