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^'Alsine, Ghickweed. 'The leaves are eniS*e, Md 
grow by pairs : The cmpalement is cut into four* 
or five fegments, fo deep that they feem to be 
fo many leaves : The flower is in the form of a- 
Rofe, compofed of four or five petalsj fome- 
^ times entire, and fometimes bifid: The fruit is^ 
' membranous, has but one cell; • and of a round- 
ifh, or conical figure ; it gapes at the top, and. 
contains fmall feeds. - 
Chickweed is divided into four kifids : Such*- 
as have tetrapetalgus flowers ; 2^, Such as have pen^‘ i 
tapetalous flowers, and their petals bifid; 34f,-^Such i 
as have their petals bifid, their feed-veffds oblong, af | . 
little" crooked, and gaping at the top, *wkh a great^ | 
many teeth ; Such as have pentapetalous-flowefy^' i 
And their petals entire. ’ ' ; *- o. ^ : 
I , Such as have. ; tetrapetalaus flowers, . " ■ 
^ I, An Alfinella foliis caryophylleis,;'K,.^^^, The; i 
Leafl: Stitchwort. It flowers in the fpiing.. :Inibar^ ' 
ren gravelly places. Common, in the Ipring, on i 
Wack- heath, T he ftalk rifes about four inches high,' 1 
is fet round the bottom with long, narrow, fmooth,* 
lharp-pointed leaves, has two or three joints, , 
and two fharp-pointed leaves, placed at each : From' 1 
the fecond or third joint fhoot out two or three ; 
branches, each fiiftaining as many fmall white tetra- * 
petalous flowers: The empalement is cut into four 
green fharp-pointed fegments : The feed-veflel is ; 
pblong, and contains very fmall feeds. 
' 1, Alfinella mufccf 6 flore repens ^ I^* 345 * CarycH 
phylliis minimus mufcofus noftras^ P; 1 340. Saxifra-* 
ga Anglic ana Alfine folidy G. E. 568. Pearlwortf 
Chickweed, Breal^ftone. . Common in moifl barren. - 
paftures, and the walks in ’gardens : The leaves at; 
the root ; are ranged in a circle, very narrow, and 
about half ah inch long : The ftalks are feeble, and 
jlyeupon the ground ; powers white,'' ve^ty 
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