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but tubercular, valves of the caps, narrower, seeds with promi- 
nent acute tubercles. — St. much branched, slender. S. grandi- 
finra (Ten.) according to Mr. Woods. S. umbrosa (Opitz !) R. 
Fl. Exsic. 895. (but that specimen has hairs on the calvx). 
S. neglecta Weihe. Not figured in R. Icon. Fl. Germ. — Com- 
mon, y. Sussex. A. III. — XI. Common Chickiveed. 
4. S. Holostea (L.) ; st. ascending tetragonal with the angles 
rough, I. lanceolate-attenuated 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, brads herbaceous. — E. B. 511. R. 4908. — St. 1 — 2 
feet high, slender and procumbent at the base, thicker upwards. 
L. gradually narrowing from a little above the base to the verv 
acute point. Fl. large, white, few in number in a leafy panicle. 
Mr. Bladon (Phyt. i. 264.) finds near Pont, y Pool a variety with 
" laciniated petals." — Woods and hedges. P. IV. — VI. Greater 
Stitchwort. 
5. S. glauca (Wither.) ; st. erect weak quadrangular smooth, 
I. linear-lanceolate acute quite smooth sessile, lower 1. broader, 
fl. solitary or in a few-flowered lax corymb, pet. bipartite longer 
than the lanceolate 3-nerved sepals, caps, oblong-ovate about as 
long as the calvx, bracts with scarious and glabrous margins. — 
E. B. 825. R. 4909.— Glaucous. St. 6—12 in. high, leafy. 
Pet. deeply bifid : segments linear, white, sometimes considerably 
longer than the calyx. — Marshy places. P. V. — VII. 
6. S. graminea (L.) ; st. diffuse quadrangular smooth, I. linear- 
lanceolate acute quite smooth ciliated below sessile, fl. in adicho- 
tomous panicle, pet. bipartite as long or longer than 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 
2 last, white. Mr. Leighton has observed a variety with the 
pet. twice as long as the calyx but differing in no other respect. , 
— Dr. Deakin describes the I. of 5. graminea as " gradually ta- 
pering from the base to the point," and distinguishes as S. Ba- 
bingtonii (Deak.) a plant with the 1. " linear with a lanceolate 
point" not at all ciliated "with darker more wrinkled seeds, 
caps, and pet. scarcely longer than the calyx," Flor. Brit. ii. 645. 
fig. 735. I have not seen this plant and doubt its being a distinct 
species; it is found " in the Swann pool near Lincoln." — S. lon- 
gifolia (Fr.), S. Friesiana (Koch), differs from S. graminea by 
having the upper part of its stem and the edges and keel of its 
leaves scabrous. — Dry heathy and bushy places. P. V. — VIII. 
Lesser Stitchwort. 
7. S. scapigera (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 
