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** Caps, rounded helw f/r scarcely if at all narrowed ; 
rohnnella rerii short. 
■2. iiii'dia (Vill.) ; st. procumbent and ascending I'ith a 
I hair;/ liar. I. ovate shortl;/ ji'rinttd Stalked, upper I. .'^essile, fl. 
axillary and t&vmm2i\,ji. -pedicel i usualli/ not Iowjki- than the 
cal.. fr.-ped. cKrved doimimrds aiul iravi/, pet. deeply bifid not 
exceeding the ovate-lanceolate single-ribbed glandular-pilose 
sepals, caps, cblong longer than the calyx. — E. B. 537. B.. v. 
2-22. — Very variable in length of st. and joint.s, size of 1., number 
of stam. (3 — 10), and length of styles. Sep. with a narrow 
scariouii margin, glabrous or with long hairs. Fr.-st. reflexed, 
often scarcely exceeding the leaves. Seeds with round 
tubercles. L. glabrous with broad ciliate petioles. — ^. S. 
pallida (Pire) ; pet. 0, styles 0, stig. short arcuate, stam. 3, seeds 
small bluntly and minutely tubercled. ,S'. Borceana (Jord.). — 
7- S. ne'jlert'j ;Weihe) ' ; 1. larger with longer stalks, upper 1. 
sessUe lower subcordate, stam. 10, seeds with prominent 
rounded tubercles. A. III. — IX. Common ChicJci' eed. E. S. I. 
3. S. uvibi o sa (Opiz) ; st. procumbent and ascending with a 
hairy line, I. narrowed graduallii into lonrj points, H.-ped. 
twice the lewjth of the mly.r, fr.-ped. defiexed at the base, 
othen^ise xtraiijlit, ultimateli/ erect, cal. more narrowed below 
than in Sp. 2, sep. lanceolate acute tubercular, valves of the 
caps, narrower than in Sp. 2, seeds with prominent acute 
tubercles. — S. Elizabethce (Schultz.). — St. much branched 
slender with autumnal barren shoots. Fr. s,t. much exceed- 
ing 1. — moist and shady places. P. IV. — VII. E. S. 
4. S. Holostea (L.) ; st. ascending angular with rough angles, 
/. lanctolate-attenuate acute with a rough margin and keel all 
sessile, cj-me panicled, pet. half -bifid twice as long as the lanceo- 
late verj' obscui-ely 3-veined sepals, caps, globose about as long 
as the calyx, bracts k-atiike.— iT. B. 511. Fl. v. 223.— St. 1—2 
feet high, slender and procumbent at the base, thicker ujtwards. 
I L. gi'adually narrowing from a little above the base to the very 
I acute point. Fl. large, white, few, in a leafy cyme. — Woods 
and hedges. - P. IV.— VI. Greater Stitchwort. " E. S. I. 
5. .S. D 'dleniinm (Moench em. Druce); st. erect weak angular 
smooth, I. linear-lanceolate acute quite smootli. sessile, lower 1. 
broader, fl. solitary or in a few-tiowered lax paaicled cyme, 
pet. bipartite exceeding the lanceolate 3-veined sepals, caps, 
oblong-ovate about as long as the calyx, bracts icitli scarious 
ii Man; authors combine this xriih tip. 3. The name for the combined species 
woald be 5. ntgUOc (Weihe).— H. & J. G. 
