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Chickweed, with a fmall flower. This is lefs thaa 
the following fpecies, and not fo branchy: The 
flowers {land on fliort pedicles : The leaves and 
ftalks are not clammy, and it flowers a little later. 
3. Alfme hirfuta Myofotis latifolia pr^ecocior^ R; 
548. hirfuta altera vifcofa^ C. 251. vifcofa, P. 764. 
The broader-leav’d Moufe-ear Chickweed. Com- 
mon in dry and Tandy places, and flowers in April, 
The flalks rife four or fix inches high^ round, hairy 
and feeble, but generally upright: They arc paitei 
at the tops into pairs of branches, and thefe again in- 
to other two lefler ones, with one flower placed at 
each divifion of the flalk, in the angle of divarica- 
tion, on a very fliort pedicle : The petals of the 
flowers are narrow and bifid, but not cut fo deep as 
in Common Chickweed. The whole plant is a little 
clammy. 
4. Aljine hirfuta Myofotis^ R. 349. hirfuta mag^^ 
no flore^ C. 251, Narrow* leav’d Moufe-ear Chick- 
weed. In fallow fields. J. Bauhin has obferved 
that his brother had no reafon to call this fpecies 
Aljine hirfuta magno flore^ for the flowers of this are 
fmall, if compared even with the other fpecies of 
this genus. 
5. Alftm Myofotis facie ^ Lychnis Alpina flore 
<implo niveo repens ^ R. 349. Caryophyllus holofteus 
Alpinus latifolius^ C. 210, Pr. 104. Alpine Moufe- 
ear Chickweed, with a large white flower. It flowers 
about the beginning of Auguft^ and the flower ap- 
pears very large for the bignefs of the plant. 
6. Alfme Myofotis lanuginofa Alpina grandiflora^ 
feu auricula muris villofa flore amplo memhranaceo^ R. 
349. Caryophyllus holofteus foment ofus latifolius^ C. 
210, Pr. 104. Woolly Moufe-ear Chickweed, 
with a large white flower. The firfl: fpecies differs 
from this, in having its leaves fmoother, and fet 
thicker upon the ftalks. 
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