^2S DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



tains about Loch-Rannoch^ in Athol^ &c. I ob- 

 ferv'd it likewife upon the mountains about 

 Loch-Urn, in Invernefsjhire^ and upon the moun- 

 tains of Rum, il. VII. 

 TJic roots are thick, and grow together in a mat : 

 the leaves are extremely narrow, linear and acute, 

 growing in tufts : the flalks are about an inch 

 high, having generally two leaves growing op- 

 pofue upon it, and bearing a fingle flower: the 

 calyx is of a dark red, and the fiowersof a bright 

 pink color, which enlivens the barren mountains 

 exceedingly. 



STELLARIA. Gen,pL rM, 



Cal. 5-phyllus, patens. Fetala 5, bipartita. Caps. 



i-locularis, polyfperma. 



mmorwm i. STELLARIA foliis cordatis petiolatis, panlcula 

 pedunculis ramofis. Sf. pi. 603. (Oed. Dan. /, 

 271. opt. Moris, hift. f. 5. /. 23./. 2. Column. 

 Ecph. L p. 290. /. 290.J 



Broad-leav'd Stichwort. Anglis. 



In woods and fliady places, frequently in the low- 

 lands, as about Broomholm and Langholm, in EJk- 

 dale, and at Springkeld and Hoddam-Caftle, in Jn- 

 yiandale, abundantly : obferv'd alfo by Dr. Par- 

 fons, at MeaviS'Bank. %.V . VI. 



The flalks are about a foot or eighteen inches high, 

 branched in a panicle at top : the leaves are heart- 

 fhap'd, acute, hairy, of a much paler green on 

 the under fide than the upper ; the lower ones 

 fupported by footflalks, which are hairy and 



channei'd; 



