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3. S. Holostea (L.); st. ascending angular with rough angles, 
l. lanceolate-attenuate acute with a rough margin and keel all 
sessile, fl. in a forked panicle, pet. half bifid twice as long as the 
lanceolate nerveless sepals, caps. globose about as long as the 
calyx, bracts leaflike—E. B. 511. R. v. 223.—St. 1—2 feet high, 
slender and procumbent at the base, thicker upwards. L. gradu- 
ally narrowing from a little above the base to the very acute point. 
F. large, white, few, in a leafy panicle—Woods and hedges. P. 
IV.—VI. Greater Stitchwort. 
4. S. glauca (Wither.) ; st. erect weak angular smooth, I. linear- 
lanceolate acute quite smooth sessile, lower 1. broader, fl. solitary 
or in a few-flowered lax corymb. pet. bipartite exceeding the 
lanceolate 3-nerved sepals, caps. oblong-ovate about as long as 
the calyx, bracts with scarious and glabrous margins.—E. B. 825. 
R. v. 223.—Usually glaucous. St. 6—12 in. high, leafy. Fi. 
rarely solitary. Pet. white, sometimes much exceeding the cal., 
segments linear. S. palustris (Retz.) is the older and better name 
but has not been adopted by authors.—Marshy places. P. V.— 
VII. 
5. S. graminea (L.); st. diffuse angular smooth, J. linear-lan- 
ceolate acute quite smooth ciliated below sessile, fl. in a dichoto- 
mous panicle, pet. bipartite equalling or exceeding the 3-nerved 
sepals, caps. oblong longer than the calyx, bracts scarious ciliated. 
—E. B, 803.—St. 1—2 feet high. Fl. smaller than those of the 
last 2, white. Shorter or longer pet. accompany an imperfection 
of the stam. or germen,—([S. longifolia (Fr.), S. Friesiana (Koch), 
has the upper part of its stem and the edges and keel of its leaves 
serene Ors heathy and bushy places. P. V.—VIII. 
Lesser Stitchwort. 
[6. S. seapigera (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.—HE. 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. VI.] S. 
*** Caps. narrowed below, hence the cal. has a funnelshaped 
base. Larrea St. Hil. not Ser. 
7. S. uliginosa (Murr.) ; st. diffuse angular glabrous, 1. oblong- 
lanceolate acute with a callous tip glabrous slightly ciliated below 
sessile, fl. irregularly panicled lateral and terminal, pet. bipartite 
shorter than the lanceolate 3-nerved sepals, caps. ovate nearly 
equalling the calyx, bracts scarious with glabrous margins.—E. B. 
1074.—Very variable in size, usually about a foot lone Flin 
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