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of the 'foil, , and other accident^', that thefe ^ 
, varieties are often taken for different fpecies. • ; j 
, 7. Alfine longifolia uliginojis prmjeniens locis^ R. ! 
.547. aquatica media^ C. 251% fontana^ 0.49(5. 
t Long -leav’d Water Chickweed* On boggy grounds^ 
-by rivulets, and ditch- fides, that carry water all the ; 
;year. , The leaves are long, and of a pale green co- 
lour : The ftalks are fquare, feeble, and lie upo0 i 
♦the ground : The flowers are fmall, and their petals 
^divided to the very bottom. _ . . a : 
*3. Such as han^e Ihelir petals htjfid^ their feed-vejfeh 
' oblongs a little crooked^ ' and gaping at the topy 
with a great many teeth. : ’ ^ 
I. Caryophyllus arvenfis hirfutus flore majore^ R. \ 
' 348, C. 210. holofteus^ G. 477. holofieus arvenfif ♦ 
hirfutUSy P. 1339. Long-leav’d rough Chickweedfc ^ 
.'with a large flower. On dry banks and heaths. ,lr 
. ipreads upon the ground a great many round, hairy^ 
and feeble ftalks, begirt with two leaves, oppofite 
,.to one another, at each joint, that are narrower than r 
the leaves of Moufe-ear Chickweed, except. thofe ^ 
on the flower-bearing ftalks, which are full as broad, 
and ^ encompafs the ftalks without pedicles; thefe • 
ftalks are divided into two branches at the top, and 
.each branch into two flioots,* and each Ihoot, in or- 
der into other two, and fo to the end, a flower being 
'placed in the angle of every divarication, refting upon ^ 
an oblong pedicle : The flowers are large, equal tot, 
^arid like the flowers of the Greater Stichwort, having 
•many chives, with pale yellow fummits. On the 
.hill of Healthy and Newmarket heath ; about Traw- 
‘ pint on^ Hawkftone^ Foulmire^ places near Cambridge^: 
Alfd' near Grantham^ in Lilncolnjhire. Between the ; 
[Glafs-hoiifes and I)^«/’s hole, Newcafile upon T‘ynt^ , 
j)lentifully 
. 2 . Cerajlium hirfutum minus ^paruo ,flore, R . 3 4 8* , I 
.Alfine hirjuia minor C. 251. ’ The Leaft McfUle-ear 1 
Chick- * 
