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latifoliums C. foliis ovatis fubtomehtoris, ramis, fubuniflons 

 capfulis globofis. Sp, pi. 629. ('EnUer. Strip, 

 Hehet. n. 887. Marten, Spitzherg. /. G,fig. d,) ' 



Woolly Moufe ear Chickweed. Anglis, 

 Upon the rocks on the fummits of the highland 

 mountains, as upon Ben-Lomond^ and the moun- 

 tains about Glenco^ &c. t; . VI. Vil. 



The roots are white, tough and woody, throwing 

 out numerous reclining branches, which after- 

 wards orrow ered: to the height of about three 

 inches, bearing one, or at moft two flowers : the 

 leaves are oval, croudcd together in the young 

 branches, and all extremely woolly. If two 

 flowers grow upon the fame fl:alk, the peduncle 

 of one is divaricated, or grows fo difl:ant from the 

 other as to form with it an angle almoft equal 

 ro a right angle. The calyx is woolly, the pe- 

 tals larger than the calyx, the capfule round at 

 flrfl:, but afterwards lengthen'd out into a curv'd 

 horn. Haller^s defcription of this plant agrees 

 precifely with ours •, and Marten^ % figure above 

 quoted, tho' a bad one, refembks itj but nei- 

 delcriptions nor figures of the C. alpini-im corrcf- 

 pond as they ought, that being either fmooth 

 or only a little hairy, and producing fix or eight 

 flowers upon a llalk. We therefore conclude 

 ours to be moft reducible to the C. latifoUiim Lin, 



aQiunkumG CERASTIUM foliis cordatis fefniibus, floribus, 



^^ folitariis. 



