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former : The leaves are fliorter and narrower, and 
the flowers are much lefs : The fummits are redifli, 
3. CaryopbyUus holofteus arvenjis medius^ R. 347. 
Middle Stichwort. This differs from the lall fpedes, 
in its ftalks being firmer and fhorter ; its leaves are 
alfo ftiffer, fharper-pointed, and of a glaucous co- 
lour. It refembles the firft fpecies, but is lefs in all 
I ks parts, and does not flower before June. 
4. Alftne major repens perennis^ R. 347. Aljine 
ulttjfima nemorum^ C. 250. Aljine major & maxima.^ 
P.759, 760. Alfine major Great Marfh 
I Chickweed. In moifl: and marfliy places, near wells 
and running waters. The ftalks rife about a cubic 
high, branched, redifh and downy : The leaves 
i placed at the joints are fome of them as big as 
II thofe of Pellitory of the Wall ; others like thofe of 
ji Common Chickweed, fometimes without pedicles, 
, and fometimes with pretty long and hairy ones : The 
j flowers are beautiful, like thofe of the Greater 
I Stichwort : The petals are fplit to the very bottom, 
! white and ftriped , having white chives, with green fum- 
I mics : The leaves are fometimes a little waved round 
the edges, and, as it were, curled. On the caft- 
flde, a little above the upper fluice of the miH-dam 
at ‘Kendal^ IVtJlmoreland *f . 
5. Aljine montana folio Smilacis inftar^ flore lacm- 
R. 347. montana latifolia^ flore laciniato, C. 
*1^1. hederacea montana maxima^^ Mountain 
I Chickweed, with Bindweed leaves, and jagged 
[ 'flowers. It flowers in Aupift. The fruit of this 
• ^ipecies is ftreight, their pedicles remain upright, and 
' do not bend downward, as in the oommon fort : 
; The leaves are fometimes waved about the edges. 
* 6. Aljine vulgwis feu morfus gdllime^ R. 347. 
'^ledia^ G. 250. ynedia feu minor^ G. 489. Com- 
j mon Chickweed. Under hedges, and in gardens. 
This plant varies fo remarkably, according to the 
I . nature 
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