£12 
DECANDRIA, TRIGYNIA. 
Antirrhina. 
pubera. 
media. 
iity where he found this scarce plant. In a shady moist wood, 
notfar from Rouse’s lane, in the Neck; Mr. Collins. Peren- 
nial. June. 
S. S. leaves lanceolate-subciliate, peduncles tri- 
fid, petals emarginate, calices ovate. — Willd. 
Icon. Dill. elth. t. 313. f. 403. (Pursli.) 
Snapdragon Catcliflij. 
About fourteen or eighteen inches high. Capsules inflated, 
and the upper part of the stem and small branches covered 
at intervals of about an inch or two, with a coat of brown 
viscid gummy substance, which looks like tar. This is a con- 
stant character of the plant, as I have seen in Maryland and 
Virginia. I was there informed that the chimney birds used 
fragments of the plant containing this clammy glue, in build- 
ing their nests. I know nothing of the reputed fact. Flow- 
ers open early in the morning. On the sandy woods of J ersey, 
and in similar places west side of the Schuylkill, above the 
falls. Rare. Annual. June. 
214. STELLARIA. Gen. pi. {Caryophyllece.) 
Calix 5-leaved, spreading. Petals 5, bipar- 
tile. Capsule ovate, 1 -celled, many-seed- 
ed, summit 6-toothed. — 
1. S. pubescent ; leaves sessile, ovate-ciliate, pe- 
dicels ei cct, petals longer than the calix — Mich. 
Oval-leaved Star-wort. 
Flowers as in all the species, white. On the woody hills bor- 
dering the Schuylkill, every where common. Perennial. May. 
g. S. leaves ovate, smooth, stems procumbent, with 
an alternate lateral hairy line. — Smith. 
Alsine media, Sp. PI. 
Icon. Engl. Bot. 573. FI. Dan. 438 & 525. 
Common Chickweed. 
Every person knows Chickweed, and it would be difficult 
to say where it does not grow. It flowers during nearly all 
the year. The number of stamina varies from three to five 
or ten. Annual. 
