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on the upper fide, and creain-coloi'd under- 

 neath, furnifh'd each at the bale of the limb 

 v/ith two ferrated auricular appendages. The 

 jlamina are ten, the fifiih three. The fruit an 

 oval capiule with five valves, and three cells, 

 containing numerous feeds. 



In hot weather the plant is vifrid to the touch, 

 and the petals are cloicd till the evening. 



Phealants, I am infornVd, are very fond of the 

 feeds. 



temiifoUa. AR EN ARIA foliis fubulatis, caule paniculate, 

 capfulis ereftis, pc talis calyce brevioribus lan- 

 ceolatis. Syjl. nat. edit. 13. f. 354. Sp. fl. 

 607. (VailL parts. 7. /. 3. /. i. ben. Oedcr. 

 Ban. t. 389 ?) 



Fine-leav'd Chickvveed. AnzJis. 



Upon walls, rocks, and ftoney barren foils, but 

 rare. Upon Cramond idand in the Forth. Mr. 

 Talden. i[. VI. Vil. 



The ftalks are three or four inches hicrh, ered: 

 fmooth, and branched towards the top into a 

 kind of panicle, compofed of ieveral flowers, 

 fupported on very flender peduncles. 



The leaves are fmooth, fubulate, furrow'd, broad 

 at the bale, and coalefcent, rendering the flalk 

 knotty at their union. 



The leaves of the cr.Iyx are generally fmooth, oft- 

 times 



