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JDecandria. 
Cer. JLdtifolium , Broad-leaved Rough Chickwefcd ; 
with rough elliptical leaves, and terminal, simple, near- 
ly solitary flower-sterns ; perennial ; flowers in June, 
and is not uncommon on the mountains of Wales and 
Scotland, as on Benlomond. 
Some species of Cerastium are deficient in the parts 
of fructification, as Semidecandrum, which has five sta- 
mens, and Tetrandrum , which has only four petals and 
four stamens. 
Spergula. Gen. char. — Cal. five leaved ; petals 
five, entire ; caps, superior, ovate, one- celled, five- 
valved. 
Sper. Arvensis , Corn-spurrey ; with whorled leaves, 
flower stems reflected ; seeds kidney-shaped. Annual; 
flowers in July and August, and is a troublesome weed 
in poor exhausted soils. 
Sper. Nodosa , Knotted Spurrey ; with opposite, awl- 
shaped, smooth leaves ; upper leaves fasciculated ; ca- 
lyx without nerve. Perennial ; flowers in July and 
August, and is frequent in moist sandy places. 
Order V. Decagynia. 
Phytolacca, American Nightshade or Poke-weed; 
cal. five leaved, resembling a corolla j cor. none ; ber- 
ry ten celled. 
The species of this genus are natives of America, 
Africa and India, and are conveniently distinguished 
by the variable number of stamens and pistils. 
Phyt. Decandra, Redweed or Foxglove ; with ten 
stamens and ten styles ; a native of Jamaica, where it 
