STKLLARIA. 
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Kxsic. 895. (but that specimen has hairs on the calyx). Mot 
figurctl in R. Icon. FI. Germ . — Common, y. Sussex. A. III. 
— XI. Common Chickweeil. 
4. S. Holostea (L.) ; st. ascending tetragonal with the angles 
rmigli, /. lanceolate-attenuated acute with a rough margin and 
keel all sessile, fl.in a forked panicle, j)et. half bifid twice as long 
as the lanceolate nerveless sepals, caps, globose about as long as 
the calyx, bracts herbaceous. — E. B. 511. B. 4908. — St. 1 — 2 
feet high, slender and procumbent at the base, thicker upwards. 
L. gradually narro^viug from a little above the base to the very 
acute point. FI. large, white, few in number in a leafy panicle. 
— Woods and hedges. P. IV. — VI. Greater Stitchwort. 
5. S. (jlauca (Wither.); st. erect weak quacbangular smooth, 
1. linear-lanceolate acute quite smooth sessile, lower 1. broader, 
d. solitary or in a few-flowered lax corjTiib, pet. bij)artite longer 
than the lanceolate 5-nerved sej)als, caps, oblong-ovate about as 
long as the calyx, bracts with scarious and glabrous margins. — 
E. B. 825. R. 4909. — Glaucous. St. G — 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, 1. linear- 
lanceolate acute quite smooth ciliated below sessile, fl. in a dicho- 
tomous panicle, pet. bipartite as long or longer than the 0-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. L. “ gradually tapering from the base 
to the point.” Deakin. — I have not seen S. Babingtonii (Deak.) 
which has its 1. “ linear with a lanceolate point” not at all ciliated. 
“ darker and more wrinkled seeds, and caps, and pet. scarcely 
longer than the calyx.” Flor. Brit. ii. G43. f. 735. I doubt its 
being a distinct species ; it is found “ in the Swann j)ool near 
Lincoln.” — [S. longifolia (Fr.), S. Friesiana (Koch), differs fi-om 
S. graminea by having the upper part of its stem and the edges 
and keel of its leaves scabrous.] — Diy 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. deej)ly (hvided equalling the lanceolate acute slightly 
fi'inged 3-ribbed sepals. — E. B. 1269. 1. much broader than in 
my cultivated specimen. — Caps, pyramidal obtuse divided half- 
way down. I have not seen any wild specimens except those 
gathered by Mr. Don. — -By the sides of rivulets to the north of 
Dunkeld and about Loch Nevis, Scotland. Mr. G. Don. P. VI. 
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