DECANDRIA, PENTAGYNIA. 
215 
tals oblong, nearly equal to the calix ; flowers 
longer than the peduncle. — Willd. and Smith. 
Icon. Engl. Bot. 789. 
Common or hroad-leaved Mouse-ear Chickweed. 
In fields and in grassy banks; frequent. Annual. April, 
June, 
2. C. hirsute, viscous, diffuse ; leaves lanceolate- viscosum. 
oblong, a little obtuse, petals obovate, hardly 
longer than the calix, flowers shorter than the 
peduncle. — Willd. and Pursh. 
Icon. Engl. Bot. 790. 
J^arrow-leaved or Clammy mouse-ear Chickweed. 
In cultivated fields and pastures, common. Annual. All 
summer. 
3. C. hirsute, viscid ; leaves ovate-oblong, acute, 
petals shorter than the calix, einarginate ; pe- 
duncles longer than the calix, flowers pentan- 
drous. — Willd. 
Icon. Engl. Bot. 1630. 
Least mouse-ear Chickweed. 
A small species, frequent on the grassy commons of Jersey. 
Annual. May, June. 
4. C. softly pubescent and viscid, erects leaves longepedun^ 
elongated, distant, linear-oblong, acute ; petals 
oblong, bifid at the point, longer than the calix ; 
peduncles at length much longer than the flow- 
ers, at first shorter.— Obs. stems nearly sim- 
ple and erect, several from the same root, often 
a foot high, remarkably viscid above. Radical 
leaves spathulate, all rather acute, cauline sub- 
amplexicaule, linear-oblong, sublanceolate, plai- 
ted at the point, often 2 inches long, and only 
3 lines broad. Flowers terminal, subpanicu- 
