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Shorter or longer pet. accompany an imperfection of the stam. 

 or germen. — [8. Imgifolia (Fr.), 8. FiHesiana (Koeh), has the 

 upper part of its stem and.the edges and keel of its leaves rough.] 

 — Dry heathy and hushy places. P. V. — VIIL Lesser Shtch- 

 wort. E. S. I. 



\8. scopiijfera Willd.) ; st. shorter than the peduncles erect, 

 1. linear-lanceolate slightly pubescent on the margins, peduncles 

 long rising far above the leaves slender glabrous simple or once 

 forked, pet._ deeply divided equalling the lanceolate acute slightly 

 fringed 3-ribbed sepals. — E. B. 1269. — No wild specimens are 

 kn,own., I can s'carcely believe that this is a st^te of 8. graminea. 

 — By the sides, of rivulets between Loch Ereachd and Loch 

 Laggah, Scotland. Mr. G. Bon. P. VL] ' S. 



*** Caps, narrowed below, hence the col. has a fimnehhaped 

 base. Larbeba St. HU.,, not Ser. 



6. S. idigMsa (Murr.) ; st. diffuse aa^lax glabrous, I. oblong- 

 lanceolate acute with a hard tip glabrous slightly ciliate below 

 sessile, fl. irregularly panicled lateral and terminal, pet. bipartite 

 shorter than the lanceolate 3-veined sepals, caps, ovate nearly 

 equalling the calyx, bracts scarious mth glabrous edges. — Very 

 variable in size, usually about a foot long. Fl. in small panicles 

 mostly axillaiy. On the Clova Mountains (3200 feet) it is 

 about 2 in. long, with minute leaves and usually solitary flowers. 

 —In wet places. A. V. VI. E. S. I. 



14. Mala'chitjh Fries. Great Chiokweed. 



1. M. aquaCicum (Fr.) ; st. decumbent and ascending angular 

 covered with glandular hairs, 1., cordate-ovate acuminate, fl. 

 scattered solitary in the forks of the stem, pet. bipartite rather 

 exceeding the calyx, caps, exceeding the calyx. — R. vi. 237. 

 Cerastium Sm. — Closely resembling Stellaria nemorum. Lowest 

 1. and those of the barren branches stalked, others larger and 

 sessile. — Usually in wet places. P. VII. VIII. E. 



15. Cerastium Linn. Mouse-ear. 



* Root fibrous. Pet. not or btd little exceeding the calyx: 



t Caps, curved. 



1. C glomerdtum (Thuil.) ; 1., ovate, sep. lanceolate very acute 

 with a narrow membranous margin aiid as well as the herbaceous 

 bracts hairy throughout, caps, cylindrical ascending twice as long 

 as the calyx, fruitstalks about equalling the calyx. — C; vulgatum 

 Sm., R. v. 229. 0. viscosumFrt'es. — ^St. erect, glandular-haiiy. 



