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Cerastium ( L .). Mouse-ear Chickweed. 
C. quaternellum ( Fenzl .). Upright Moenchia. Native. A. V, VI. 
(Moenchici erecta , Sw.). 
Gravelly or rocky ground. Rare. 
L. 1873, In a grassy lane leading towards the sandhills, 
about half a mile S. of Hightown Station (r.b.). 
C. In many places between New Ferry, The Rock, and 
Leasowe (H.). Several places round Bidston (D.) Sandy 
Lane, near Lower Bebington, on the road to Parkgate (j.s.). 
Roadside on Grange Hill, at the junction of the roads leading 
to West Kirby and the Hill Houses (Field club). 
C. tetrandrum (Curt.). Dark Green Mouse-ear Chickweed. Native. 
A. V-VII. 
On the sandhills. 
Note. — Not recorded recently. Possibly an error, 
C. semidecandrum (L.). Fig. 88. Little Mouse-ear Chickweed. 
Native. A. IV-VI. 
The sandhills, dry banks, walls, &c. Common. 
C. glomeratum ( Thuill ). Fig. 87. Broad-leaved Mouse-ear Chick- 
weed. Native. A. IV-IX. 
In dry places. Common. 
C. triviale (Link.). Narrow-leaved Mouse-ear Chickweed. Native. 
B. or P. IV-IX. 
Roadsides and cultivated ground. Very common. 
Note. — On the sandhills it occurs with very viscid stems and long 
divaricate branches. 
C. arvense (L.). Fig. 88. Large Flowered Chickweed. Native. 
P. V-VIII. 
In dry places. Local. 
L. Southport (j.g.). 
C. Hilbre (t.d.w.). Claybank of River Dee, between West 
Kirby and Caldy (f.m.w.). 1862, in a field between Thurstas- 
ton and Caldy (Mrs. s. b.). Summit of Overton Hills (j.f.r.) 
Stellaria (. L .). Stitchwort. 
S. aquatica (Scop.). Fig. 89. Water Chickweed. Native. P. VII, 
VIII. 
By the borders of ditches. Very rare. 
L. Ditches near Scarisbrick (D.). 
Note. — This species does not extend further north on the west side of 
Britain. 
