PINK 1A_MILY 



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obtuse, with narrow membranous margins. Alpine rocks m the 

 north. — -Fl. June — August. Perennial. 



7. C. circticiiiii (Arctic Mou.se-ear Chickweed). — rubcscent 

 with short yellowish hairs ; stem prostrate, tfifted ; flouk'rs usually 

 solitary : se/'als with broad membranous margins. Otlperwise 

 resembling C. a/piiiuiii. — Mountains of 'Wales and Scotland ; rare. 

 Fl. May — August. Perennial. 



8. C. nn'c'/ist'- (Field JMouse-ear Chickweed). — Hairy, prostrate, 

 ascending; branches 6 — 10 in. high; leaves hnear-lanceolate ; 

 flowe7-s numerous, equalling and resembling those of Stellaria 

 Holoslea, in forked cymes : bracts and sepals acute, with nieni- 

 branous margins. — Dry fields ; not common. — Fl. April — August. 

 Perennial. 



9. C. cerasto'idts (Alpine Stitchwort). — Stem 4 — ,S in. long, 

 slender, decumbent, much branched below, with a line of pube.s- 

 cence shifting from side to side at: each node ; leaves small, 

 narrow, oblong, glabrous ; floicers \ in. across, on ver)" slender 

 stalks, I — 3 in a cyme. — By Scotch Highland streams; rare. — Fl. 

 July, August. Perennial. 



14. }iFi:NCHiA. — Glabrous, glau- 

 cous herbs, with linear leaves 

 and few, but relatively large, 

 floivers, with their parts mostly 

 in 4's ; set'als longer than the 

 petals ; petals not notched ; 

 capsule S-toothed, many-seeded. 

 (Named in honour of Conrad 

 Mcench, Professor of Botany at 

 Hesse-Cassel.) 



I. J/ erecta (Upright 



jMcenchia). — Glabrous, glaucous, 

 erect, 2 — 6 in. high ; leaves 

 linear, acute, rigid ; flowers few, 

 relatively large, opening only in 

 sunshine : sepals 4, acute, with 

 broad white membranous mar- 

 gins ; petals, stamens, and styles 

 4 each ; capsule S-toothed. — 

 Dry places. — Fl. May, June. 

 Annual. 



iv Spergul.\ (Spurrey). — Annual herbs with forked hranches : 

 whorled leaves with small membranous stipules . Jlc/tcers in 

 panicled cymes, pentamerous : petals entire ; seeJs numerous. 



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