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

 places ; common. — FL June — August. Annual. 



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

 downy species, with spathulate ciliate leaves and large, nearly 

 solitary flowers, growing on limestone mountains in co. Sligo. — 

 FL June, July. Perennial. 



4. A. norvegica (Norwegian Sandwort). — Differs mainly in being 

 more succulent, and nearly glabrous, its leaves not being ciliate. 

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

 Perennial. 



5. A. gbthica (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. Hol6steum (Jagged Chickweed). — Annual, viscid herbs 

 with flowers 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 bone, of uncertain application.) 



1. H. umbelldtum (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 little longer. — Old walls in Norfolk 

 and Suffolk ; very rare. — FL April. Annual. 



11. Stellaria (Stitch wort). — Slender, usually glabrous herbs, 

 with leaves grass-like or short and broad ; flowers white, in 

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

 bifid; stamens 10, rarely 8; styles 3, ovules many; capsule 6- 

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

 blossoms.) 



1. S. nemorum (Wood Stitchwort). — A much-branched, strag- 

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

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

 branched cyme ; sepals with narrow membranous margins. — 

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

 nial. 



2. S. 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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