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British species of Holosteae 
6. S. holostea (see below). Laminae ciliate. Bracts large. Inflorescence with about 7 — 1 1 flowers. 
Petals longer than the sepals, lobes broad. 
7. S. dilleniana (see below). Laminae glabrous, often glaucous. Inflorescence with only 
1 — 3 or rarely 4 — 7 flowers. Petals as long as or longer than the sepals, lobes broad. 
8. S. graminea (p. 63). Laminae ciliolate, not glaucous. Inflorescence many-flowered. Petals 
as long as or rather longer than the sepals, lobes very narrow. 
9. S. uliginosa (p. 63). Laminae ciliolate. Inflorescence few-flowered. Petals much shorter 
than the sepals, sometimes absent. 
6. STELLARIA HOLOSTEA. Greater Stitchwort. Plate 58 
Gramen leucanthemum Gerard Herball 43 (1597); Cary ophy tins holosteus arvensis glaber flore majore Ray 
Syn. ed. 3, 346 (1724). 
Stellaria holostea L. Sp. PI. 422 (1753)!; Smith Eng. Bot. no. 51 1 (1798)!; FI. Brit. 474 (1800)!; 
Syme Eng. Bot. ii, 96 (1864); Rouy et Foucaud FI. France iii, 231 (1896). 
leones: — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 51 1; Curtis FI. Lond. i, t. 84; FI. Dan. t. 698 (poor); Reichenbach Icon, v, 
t. 223, fig. 4908. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 58. (a) Flowering shoot, (b) Barren shoot. ( c ) Leaves. ( d ) Flower, (e) Calyx. 
(/) Petal, (g) Ovary. Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 1628; Dickson, vii, 6; Fries, xvi, 45; Herb. FI. Ingric. i, 109. 
Perennial. Shoot glabrous or slightly puberulous above. Branches quadrangular, fragile, pro- 
cumbent below, 2 — 3 dm., flowering branches erect. Leaves all sessile, subconnate, linear, ciliate, 
acuminate, subglaucous, those of the flowering shoots about 4 cm. long and 4 mm. broad, those of 
the barren shoots smaller and closer together. Inflorescence a dichasial cyme. Bracts large, lower ones 
leaf-like. Pedicels puberulous, several times as long as the calyx, of the primary flower about 4 cm. long. 
Flowers pentamerous, very rarely tetramerous, protandrous, 1*5 — 2^5 cm. in diameter; April to June. 
Sepals ovate, acute, with narrow scarious margins. Petals about i’5 — 2 - o times as long as the sepals, 
bifid to about half-way down, lobes broad and not divaricate ; rarely absent. Stamens 5 + 5, inserted 
on the yellow nectiferous disc at the base of the ovary, antisepalous ones dehiscing before the anti- 
petalous ones. Filaments white. Anthers orange. Stigmas 3 — 4, usually 3, as long as the ovary. 
Capsule subglobose, about as long as the calyx. Seeds compressed. 
Rather dry woods and shady hedgerows ; throughout the British Isles, except the Hebrides, 
Orkney, and Zetland ; ascending to 640 m. in Perthshire. 
Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, central Europe (ascending to 
2800m. in Switzerland), Russia, southern Europe; northern Africa; south-western Asia; North 
America (not indigenous). 
7. STELLARIA DILLENIANA. Marsh Stitchwort. Plate 59 
Caryophyllus holosteus arvensis medius Ray Syn. ed. 3, 347 (1724). 
Stellaria dilleniana Moench Enum. PI. Hass. 214, t. 6 (1777) excl. syn. ambo 1 (= syn. Dillenii et 
syn. Moenchi), non Leers (1775) nec Reichenbach (1832); Druce in Bot. Exch. Club Brit. Rep. for 1910, ii, 
546 ( 1 9 1 1 ) ; Moss in New Phyt. xi, 399 (1912); S. graminea var. /3 L. Sp. PI. 422 (1753)!; S. media Sibthorp 
FI. Oxon. 141 (1794) non Villars ; S. palustris Retzius FI. Scand. ed. 2, 106 (1795); Rouy et Foucaud FI. France 
iii, 232 (1896); S. glauca Withering Bot. Arr. Brit. PI. ed. 3, 420 (1796); Smith FI. Brit. 475 (1800)!; Syme 
Eng. Bot. ii, 97 (1864). 
leones : — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 825, as S', glauca ; FI. Dan. t. 2115, as S. glauca ; Reichenbach Icon, v, t. 223 
fig. 4909 (right hand figure), as S. glauca ; fig. 4909 (left hand figure), as S. glauca var. parviflora. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 59. (a) Flowering shoots, (b) Sepal (enlarged), (c) Petals, (d) Ovary. Hunt- 
ingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata: — Billot, 1141, as S. glauca\ Don, 11, as S. glauca-, Ehrhart herb., 35, as S. palustris -, Fries, 
vii 33, as S. palustris-, Reichenbach, 495, as S. glauca ; Thielens et Devos, ii, 108, as S. glauca ; Herb. FI. 
Ingric. i, ill, as S. glauca. 
A specimen of this in the Linnaean herbarium is named S. graminea. 
Perennial. Rhizome slender. Shoot glabrous, usually (in this country) glaucous. Branches 
rooting at the base, quadrangular, 6 dm., procumbent below, flowering branches erect. Leaves all 
These appear to belong to Stellaria uliginosa. 
