DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 243 



folitariis, fru6tibus pendulis. Sp, pL 629. {Ger, 

 emac, 6^11./. i. Mentzel. pug. t, i./. 3) 

 Marlli Moure-ear Chickweed. Anglis, 

 By the fides of ditches and rivers, but not fre- 

 quent. ^ VII. 

 The ftalk is a yard high, or more, nearly quadran- 

 gular, branched, weak, (lightly hairy, and una- 

 ble to fupport itfelf : the lower leaves have cili- 

 ated footftalks, the upper ones are leflile, and 

 nightly hairy, with a little vifcidity : the flowers 

 grow near the lummits of the ilalks from the 

 Aid; of the leaves, and from the divifions of the 

 branches, fingiy upon vlfcid peduncles : the ca- 

 lyx is hairy and vifcid, the petals twice as long 

 as the calyx, and the capfules pendulous. 



SPERGULA. Gen, pL 586. 



Cal. 5-phyllus. Pelala 5, integra. Caps, ovata, i-lo- 



cularis, 5-vaivis. 



arvenjts c. SPERGULA foliis verticiilatis, floribus decandris. 

 t)p. pi. 630. {Ger. em. 1 1 25. /. 3. Fei. herb. t. 59. 

 /. 6) 

 Corn - Spu rrcy . Anglis, 

 In corn-fields frequent. O. VIII. 

 The leaves are round, linear, and furrow'd from 

 e ght to twenty in a whirl : the calyx hairy and 

 -viicid, the peduncles branch'd, the portals white, 

 the (taoilna vary fi:om five to ten, the capfules 

 are pendulous, and the feeds black, and fur- 

 rounded with a membranaceous ring, 



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