54 14. CARYOPHYLLACE^. 



scabrous.] — Dry heathy and bushy places. P. V. — VIII. 

 Lesser Stitchwort. 



[6. S. scapigera{Wi\\A.); st. shorter than the peduncles erect, 

 1. linear-lanceolate shghtly 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. — B.B. 1269. — No wild specimens are 

 known. I can scarcely believe that this is a state of S. graminea. 

 — By the sides of rivulets between Loch Ereachd and Loch Lag- 

 gan, Scotland. Mr. G. Don. P. VL] S. 



*** Caps, narrowed below, hence the cal. has a funnelshaped 

 base, Larbrea St. Hil. not Ser. 



7- S. uliginosa (Murr.); st. diffuse angular glabrous, I. oblong- 

 lanceolate acute with a callous t\p glabrous slightly ciliated 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 with glabrous margins. — E. B. 

 1074. — Very variable in size, usually about a foot long. Fl. in 

 small panicles mostly axillary. On the summits of the Clova 

 mountains (3200 feet) it is about 2 in. long, with minute leaves 

 and usually solitary flowers. — In damp places. A. V. VI. 



15. MoENCHiA Hhrh. 



1. M. erecta (Sm.); stam. A.—B. B. 609. R. v. 227.— Glau- 

 cous. St. erect, glabrous, 1 — 4 in. high. L. opposite, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, acute, rigid. Sep. with broad white membranous mar- 

 gins, acute.- — Dry gravelly and sandy places. A. V. VI. E. 



16. Malachiitm Fries. Water-Chickweed. 



I. M. aguaticum (Fr.) ; st. decumbent and ascending angular 

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

 the lowest one stalked, fl. scattered solitary in the forks of the 

 stem, pet. bipartite rather exceeding the calyx, caps, exceeding 

 the calyx. — R. vi. 237. Cerastium Sm. E. B. 538. — Closely re- 

 sembling Stellaria nemorum. — Usually in wet places. P. VII. 

 VIII. 



17. Cerastium Linn. Mouse-ear. 



* Root fibrous. Pet. not exceeding the calyx. 



t Caps, curved, pet. about equalling the calyx. 



1. C. glomeratum (Thuil.); 1. ovate, sep. lanceolate acute with 

 a narrow membranous margin and as well as the herbaceous 

 bracts hairy throughout, caps, cylindrical ascending twice as long 



