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Long-leaved Stitchwort 



S. longifolia. has a number of small, star-shaped white flowers 

 on long pedicels, in cymes. Stems, sometimes with rough angles, 

 8 to 1 8 inches high. Leaves, long and narrow. Widely spread, 

 growing in grass. 



Northern Stitchwort 



5. boreklis. — Petals, 2 to 5, very short, overtopped by the calyx, 

 often none. Styles, 4. Leaves, broadly lance - shaped, sessile, 

 very bright green. Stem, weak, much forked, the flowers in leafy 

 cymes at the ends and in the forks of the branches. 6 to 18 

 inches high. Summer. 



Wet meadows and low, shaded grounds. New Jersey 

 northward and westward. 



Swamp Starwort. Marsh Chickweed 



S. uUgindsa. — Flowers in sessile, broad, flat clusters. Leaves, 

 lance-shaped, 6 to 16 inches high. Summer. 



This is not a common plant. It may be distinguished by 

 the prolongation of the stem beyond the flowers, leaving the 

 cyme of blossoms lateral instead of terminal as in other 

 chickweeds. It is weak-stemmed, reclining. 



Mouse-ear Chickweed 



CerAstium viscositm. — Family, Pink. (Generic name means a 

 horn, from size and shape of the pod.) All parts of the flower 

 in fives. Petals, 2 - cleft. Leaves, ovate, oblong, hairy. An 

 annual, rather clammy, rough, 6 to 8 inches high. The tiny 

 flowers are in clusters, terminating the stem. Pods grow quite 

 long on long pedicels. May and June. 



Grassy lawns and fields in the Middle Atlantic States, 

 widely extended. 



Field Mouse-ear Chickweed 



C. arvense. — Petals, inversely heart-shaped, more than twice 

 the length of the sepals. Pods, quite long. The narrow, lance- 

 shaped, opposite leaves grow smaller toward the end of the branch, 

 on weak petioles. Stems, ascending, somewhat downy, 4 to 8 

 inches high. May to July. 



Dry, rocky fields. 



Common Mouse-ear Chickweed 



C, <vulgztum. — This species has larger, pedicelled flowers, clus- 

 tered on spreading stems which are clammy and hairy, ascend- 



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