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14. CARIOPHTILACHE. 
** Caps, rounded below or scarcely if at all narrowed; columella 
very shwi. 
2. S, mSdia (Wither.) ; st. procumbent and ascending with 
a hairy lifie, I. ovate shmily pointed stalked, upper I. se/^le, fl. 
axillary and terminal, pet. deeply bifid not exceeding the ovate- 
lanceolate single-ribbed glandular-pilose sepals, caps, oblong 
longer than the calyx. — £. B. 537. R. v. 222. — Very variable 
in length of st. and joints, size of 1., number of stam. (3 — 10), 
and length of styles. Sep. with a narrow scarious margin, 
glabrous or with long hairs. Pet. sometimes wanting. Fr.-st. 
reflexed, often scarcely exceeding the leaves. L. glabrous with 
broad cUiate petioles.—^. S. Boreana (Jord.) ; pet. 0, styles 0, 
stig. short arcuate, seeds small bluntly and minutely tubercled. 
— y. S. neglecta (Weihe) ; 1. larger with longer stalks, upper 1. 
sessile and subcoi-date slightly clasping, stam. 10, seeds with 
acute tubercles. — S. S. umbrosa (Opitz); 1. narrowed gi-adually 
into long points, cal. more narrowed below, sep. lanceolate 
acute glabi-ous but tubercular, valves of the caps, narrower, 
seeds with prominent acute tubercles. St. much branched, 
slender. Fr.-st. much exceeding the leaves, S. gramlijlora 
(Ten., Woods). — Common. A. 111. — IX. Covmim Chickxveed. 
i E. S. I. 
3. S. Ilolos'tca (L.) ; st. ascending angular with rough angles, 
I. lanceolate-uttemiate acute with a rough margin and keel all 
sessile, cyme panicled, pet. half bifid twice as long as the lanr 
ceolate very obscurefy 3-veined sepals, caps, globose about as 
long as the calyx, bracts leatlike. — £. B. 511. i?. v. 223. — St. 1 
— 2 feet high, slender and procumbent at the base, thicker up- 
wai-ds. L. gradually naiTowing fi-om a little above the base to 
the very acute point. Fl. large, white, few, in a leiiiy c}Tne. — 
Woods and hedges, P. IV.— -VI. Greater Stitchtvort. E. S. I. 
4. S. glauca QN'ithev.) ; st. erect weak angidar smooth, I. linear- 
lanceolate acute quite smooth sessile, lower 1. broader, fl. solitary 
or in a few-iiowered lax panicled cyme, pet. bipartite exceeding 
the lanceolate 3-veined sepalsj caps, oblong-ovate about as long 
as the calyx, bracts with scarious and f/labrous margins, — E. B. 
825. R. V. 223. S. palmtris Retz.-^Usually glaucous. St. 6 — 12 
in. high, leafy. Fl. rarely solitary. Pet. white, sometimes much 
exceeding the cal. ; segments linear. — Marshy places, rather rare. 
P. v.— VII. E. S, I. 
5. S. (framin'ea (L.) ; st. diHuse angidar smooth, I. linear-lan- 
ceolate acute quite smooth ciliato below sessile, cyme lax pa-i 
nicled, pet. bipartite equalling or exceeding the 3-veiued sepals, 
caps, oblong longer than the calyx, brai-ts scariotts ciliatc. — 
E. B. 803.— St. 1—2 feet high. Fl. smaller than those of Sp. 
3 or 4, white. Shorter or longer pet. accompany an imperfection 
