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flotvers inconspicuous ; sepals acute, with 3' hairy veins. — Dry 

 places ; common. — Fl. June — August. ^Vnnual. 



3. A. cilidta (Fringed Sandwort) is a small, matted, prostrate, 

 downy species, with spathulate ciliate leaves and large, nearly 

 solitary floivei's, growing on limestone mountains in co. Sligo. — 

 Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



4. A. 7wn'egica (Norwegian Sandwort). — Differs mainly in being 

 more succulent, and nearly glabrous, its leai'es not being ciliate. 

 It occurs in Unst, in the Shetland Islands, — Fl. July, August 

 Perennial. 



5. A. gothiea (Gothland Sandwort), more tufted, less succulent, 

 more downy, with leaves ciliate at the base with curved hairs, is 

 closely allied. — On limestone in West Yorkshire. — Fl. June — 

 September. Annual (?). 



10. HoL(5sTEUM (Jagged Chickweed). — Annual, viscid lierbs 

 with Jiowers on umbellate cymes ; sepals 5, petals 5, toothed ; 

 stamens 3 — 5, rarely 10 ; styles 3, rarely 4 or*5 ; capsule cylindric, 

 6-, or rarely 8- or 10-toothed, many-seeded. (Name in Greek 

 signifying all hone, of uncertain application.) 



I, //. laiil/elldtuin (Umbelliferous Jagged Chickweed). — The 

 only British species, 4 — 5 in. high ; stems smooth below, hairy and 

 viscid above ; leaves ovate ; flowers in terminal umbellate cymes 

 about 5 together, their pedicels bending downward after flowering 

 and rising again in fruit ; sepals white with membranous edges ; 

 petals white or pale pink, a httle longer. — ©Id walls in Norfolk 

 and Suflblk ; very rare. — Fl. April. Annual. 



11. Stell.ari.v (Stitchwort). — Slender, usually glabrous herbs, 

 with leaves gras.s-h'ke or short and broad ; Jlmvers white, in 

 dichasial cymes; sepals and petals 5 each," -rarely 4, the latter 

 bifid ; sia?iie/is to, rarely S : .v/i7t'j" 3, ovules many ; capsule 6- 

 valved. (Name from the Latin stella, a star, from its star-like 

 blossoms ) 



1. S. iianoniiii (Woud Stitchv\-ort). —A much-branched, strag- 

 gling plant, hairy or glabrous ; leasees rough on the upper surface ; 

 flowers \ — 4 in. across, on very slender stalks in a loose, much- 

 branched cyme ; sepals with narrow membranous margms. — 

 Damp woods, chiefly in the north. — Fl. May — August. Peren- 

 nial. 



2. 5. media (Chickweed). — Prostrate or ascending, varying 

 considerably in size : stem with a line of hairs alternating from 

 side to side ; leaves glabrous, succulent, ovate, shortly pointed, the 

 lower ones with ciliate stalks ; flowers small, axillary ; sepals hairy, 



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