caryophvllAce^ 



with a narrow membranous margin as long as the petals ; petals 

 deeply 2-cleft, or absent ; stamens 3, 5, or 10, — Waste f)laces and 

 as a weed in gardens ; abundant. — sFI. all the year round. 

 Annual. 



3. 6'. 7iegla-ta (Perennial Chickweed). — A more erect, slender, 

 glabrous form, with ovate-acuminate leaves and glabrous sepals. — 

 Shady places ; not common. Perennial' 



4. S. Holbstea (Greater Stitchwort, Satin-flower, or Adder's- 



meat). Stem i — 2 feet high, nearly erect, 4-angled, rough-edged, 

 brittle at the nodes; leaj'es sessile, irarrow, tapering to a long 

 point, ciliatc ; Jlnvers few, ^ in. across,<in leaf)' dichasial cviues, 

 with slender stalks; petals deeply 2icleft. — Among the most 

 ornamental of our spring flowers, scarcely less conspicuous with 

 its delicate green leaves than its snow-white petals. The stems do 

 not die down to the ground in the winter, as is (he case with most 

 herbaceous perennials, but though dead to all appearance, they 

 send out delicate .i^recn lufts very eailv. in the jear, so that the 



