DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 24 f 



Upright Moufe-ear Chickweed. Anglh. 

 The ftalks are a foot high, ere6l, not fo numerous 



from one root as the preceding, and the leaves 



more acute. 



In meadows and paftures frequent. G. IV. V. 



femidecan- CERASTIUM floribus pentandris, petalis emar* 

 drum 3. ginatis. Sp. pi. 627. Vaill. Par, t. 30./. 2. Raj. 



Syn. p. 348. /. 15./. I. bona) 

 The left Moufe-ear Chickweed. Anglis, 

 Upon the hills about Arthur'' s Seat, Dr. Parfonu 



G.V. 

 It is about three inches high, commonly fingle at 

 the root, and very little branch'd at the top : it 

 has only five fertile Stamina^ but fometiraes five 

 other barren ones are vifible, without Anthers. 



arDenfe 4. ^* ioYiis, lineari-lanceolatis obtufis glabris, corollis 

 calyce majoribus. Sp. pi. 628. {VailL Paris, A 

 30./. 4^5. hona. Ger. em, 595./. 15) 

 Narrow leav'd Moufe-ear Chickweed. Anglis, 

 in paftures of a gravelly foil, but not common. I 

 obferv'd abundance of it at the foot of walls up- 

 on the borders of Scotland^ near Wark^ not far 

 ixomKelfo, ^i^. V. VL 

 The ftaiks are weak and reclining : the leaves not 

 always fmooth, but moft commonly a little hairy : 

 the petals aie twice as long as the calyx, which 

 readily diftinguifties the fpecies* 



** Capfulis fuhrotundis. 



J4» C. follis 



