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STELLARIA 
2. STELLARIA NEMORUM. Wood Stitchwort. Plate 54 
A /sine montana folio smilacis instar Jlore laciniato Dillenius in Ray Syn. ed. 3, 347 (1724). 
Stellaria nemorum L. Sp. PL 421 (1753)!; Smith Eng. Bot. 
no. 92 (1792); FI. Brit. 473 (1800)!; Syme Eng. Bot. ii, 93 (1864); 
Rouy et Foucaud FI. France iii, 227 (1896). 
leones: — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 92; FI. Dan. t. 271; Reichenbach 
Icon, v, t. 222, fig. 4906. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 54. (a) Flowering shoot. ( b ) Barren 
shoot. ( c ) Petals. ( d ) Ovaries (one enlarged). Royal Botanic Garden, 
Edinburgh (I. B. B.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 225; Fellman, 51; Fries, vi, 28; v. Heurck, 
i, 6 ; Reichenbach, 2093 > Thieleus et Devos, iii, 204 ; \Herb. FI. Ingric., 
i, 107 — a very hairy plant]. 
Perennial. Rhizomes slender. Shoot more or less glandular- 
pubescent, rarely glabrescent. Branches decumbent below, 
terete, numerous, up to 5 dm. long ; flowering branches erect, 
up to 3 dm. high. Petioles of the lower leaves about as long as 
the laminae, becoming shorter above, and the inflorescence- 
leaves or bracts sessile. Laminae ovate, lower ones subcordate, 
margin ciliate, acute to subacuminate, up to about 3 — 4 cm. long 
and 2 'o — 2 - 5 broad. Inflorescence a dichasial cyme. Bracts 
leaf-like. Pedicels several times longer than the calyx. Flowers 
up to about 1 - 5 cm. in diameter; May to early July. Sepals 
lanceolate, somewhat pubescent, obscurely nerved, narrowly 
membranous at the margins. Petals about 2'o — 2^5 times as 
long as the sepals, deeply bifid, the lobes broadly linear and 
spreading a little at maturity. Stamens 5 + 5, outer ones anti- 
petalous. Ovary cylindrical. Stigmas 3. Capsule cylindrical, as 
long as the calyx. Seeds papillate. 
Damp woods, and in shady places by the sides of streams ; 
from Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire, northwards to Elginshire ; not known in Ireland ; ascending 
to 425 m. in Perthshire. 
Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, central Europe (ascending to 
2150 m,), Russia, southern Europe; Caucasus. 
Map 24. Distribution of S. nemorum 
in Great Britain 
3. STELLARIA NEGLECTA. Plate 55 
Stellaria neglecta Weihe in Bluff et Fingerhuth Consp. FI. Germ. 560 (1825); Boreau FI. Centr. 
France , ed. 3, ii, 104 (1857); S. media var. procera Klett und Richter FI. Leipz. 382 (1830); S', media var. major 
Koch Syn. ed. 2, 130 (1843); Syme Eng. Bot. ii, 94 (1864); S. media var. decandra Fenzl in Ledebour FI. Ross. 
i, 377 (1842); S. umbrosa Opiz und Ruprecht in Seznam Rost. Vvet Ceske 93 (1852) nomen; S. elizabethae 
F. Schultz in Arch, de FI. 302 (1861); S. media race neglecta Rouy FI. France iii, 229 (1896). 
leones: — Reichenbach Icon, v, t. 222, fig. 4905, as S. neglecta ; FI. Dan. t. 438, as Alsine media. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 55. (a) Lower part of a shoot, (b) Upper part, (c) Flower (enlarged). 
( d ) Ovaries (enlarged), (e) Seeds (one enlarged). Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata: — Billot, 1838, as S. boraeana\ 3537 , as S. neglecta', v. Heurck, iii, 116, as S. neglecta', Wirtgen, 
x, 562, as S. neglecta ; xiv, 788, as S. media var. sylvatica. 
Closely allied to S. media, but differing from it in the following characters. Shoot larger in 
all its parts, dying in July or August and not reappearing until the following spring. Stem more 
erect, 3 — 6 dm. long. Laminae oval to elliptical, truncate at the base, acute to acuminate, up to 
about 5 cm. long and 2 broad. Pedicels relatively much longer, glabrous or hairy or even glandular, 
up to 3 — 4 cm. long. Flowers larger, about 1 cm. in diameter; mid- April to June. Sepals narrower 
