﻿Davison. By the brook at Simonburn: Wallis. Wood on the lulling above 

 Wardrew; hedges between Wylam and Ovingham ; banks of the Tyne between 

 Lemraington and Newburn : N. J. Winch, Esq. — Warwicksh. “ It is rather 

 extraordinary that this plant has sprung up annually in a shady part of my 

 garden for some years, and has not yet. been found any where else in the neigh- 

 bourhood.” T. Piiuton, Esq. in Midi. Flora. — Westmoreland ; By Oasterton 

 Mill near Kirby Lonsdale, and other parts of the county : Sir J. E. Smith. Near 

 Kendal: Mr. Gough. — Yorksh. In Bingly Park: Dr. Richardson. By rivu- 

 lets, and in shady moist, woods about Castle Howard : Teesdale. At the bottom 

 of the Garths at Coxwold: Rev. Archdeacon Pierson. About Leeds, plen- 

 tifully : Rev. W. Wood. Studley, and Hackfall Woods: Mr. BnuNTON. 

 Sides of Weathercoat Cave: D. Turner, Esq. — WALES. Flintsh. In a 

 hedge close to the river about 100 yards above the Ford at Rhyd y Ddae Dwfr, 

 betwixt St. Asaph and Rhyddlan, and on the R'nyddlan side of the river: 

 Bincley. — SCOTLAND. Frequent in the Lowlands, as about Broomholm 

 and Langholm, in Eskdale, and at Springkehl and Iloddam-Castle ; in Annan- 

 dale, abundantly: Ligiitfoot. At Meavis-Bank : Dr. Parsons. On the 

 banks of the North and South Esk : Mr. Maugiian. Woods at Castlemilk, 

 W ood-hall, and Hamilton: Mr. Hopkirk. 



Perennial. — Flowers in May and June. 



Root slender, creeping. Stems from 1 to 3 feet high, weal: and 

 brittle, round, hollow, hairy, and often a little swollen at the joints, 

 where it is frequently of a purplish colour ; forked and panicled at 

 the top. Leaves opposite, pale-green, entire, slightly weaved at 

 the margins, tender and somewhat, succulent ; lower ones heart- 

 shaped, on long petioles : tipper egg-shaped, pointed, large and 

 nearly sessile ; all more or less hairy on the margins and on the 

 veins and mid-rib of the under surface. Flowers numerous, up- 

 right, on downy peduncles. Sepals with white margins. Petals 

 (see fig. 2.) pure white, spreading, each divided almost to the base 

 into two divaricating segments. Styles never more than three. 

 Capsules bend down as tliey ripen. 



The general appearance of this plant is very similar to that of 

 Cerastimn aqualicum, but they may be easily distinguished from 

 each other by the number of the styles ; this never having more 

 than three, while in Ccrastium aqualicum there are always five. 



Uredo Cerastii, Grev. FI. Edin. p. 441, is sometimes found on 

 the leaves of some species of Stellaria. I have seen it on the under 

 side of the leaves of the Common Chickweed, Stellaria media, in 

 the Oxford Botanic Garden. 



Another very minute parasite, Uredo antherarum., ibid. p. 443, 

 attacks the anthers of some species of this genus : I have observed 

 this on the anthers of Stellaria liolostea, in Bagley Wood, near 

 Oxford. 



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 The great Workmaster, leads to no excess 

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