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grow alternately : The empalement confifls of 
two leaves, which fall off with the petals when 
• the fruit begins to fet : The flowers are white, 
• dipctalous, have two chives, and grow in a 
< 'thyrfe : The ovary, which fends out a long tube, 
is round or oval, and becomes a Peer-falhion’d 
fruit, fticking like a Bur ; is bicapfular, and con- 
• tains two oblong feeds. We have but one fpe- 
cies of this plant, viz. 
Cerc^ea Lutetiana^ R. 289, G. 280. Lutetmia 
fnajor^ P. 351. Sola 7 iifGlia Circled di^iajnajor.^ C. 
,168. Enchanters Nightfhade. In woods and fliady 
places. I have feen a variety of this in Middleton.^ 
three miles from Sedherg in Torkjhire. The leaves 
.are dented about the edges, each dent ending in a 
ifbft fpine 
• Stellaria. The leaves grow by pairs : The 
flowers are of two forts, barren and fruitful, and 
i - • each comes out of the bofom of a leaf: The 
fruitful flowers confift of two oppofite petals, 
I . white, without chives or empalement, and be- 
I . , tween them rifts a ftyle, flirmounted by two 
. horns, or whitifli threads : The barren flowers 
. have alfo two white petals, and a Angle white’ 
chive with a yellow fummit, but no empale- 
ment : The fruit is round, flatted, and hol- 
lowed like the wheel of a pulley. Add, that the 
extremities of the branches, which rife above the 
v/ater, are crowned with many leaves lying one 
! , over another ^ the inner ones flnall, and the outer 
^ broad and radiated. The fpecies are : 
I I. Stellaria.^ R. 289. Aquatica.^ P. 1228) C. 141. 
fAIJine palufiris ferpillifolia., G. E. 614. Water-wort, 
■ or Star-headed Water Chickweed. In ditches. • 
2. Stellaria minor repens R. 289. Lenticula 
x^aluftris bifolia^ friidiu tetragono., C. 362. Aquatic a 
[ifolia Neapolitana.^ P. 1263. The fmaller, creep- 
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