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lanceolate, concave, acute, spreading, permanent. Corolla : 
petals five, two-parted, flat, oblong, shrivelling. Stamina: 
filaments ten, filiform, shorter than the corolla: alternately 
longer and shorter. Anthers roundish. Pistil: genu round¬ 
ish. Styles three, capillary, spreading. Stigmas obtuse. 
Pericarp: Capsule ovate, covered, one-celled, six-valved. 
Seeds very many, roundish, compressed. Stellaria radians 
has the petals five parted.— Essential Character. Calyx 
five-leaved, spreading. Petals five, two-parted. Capsule 
superior, one-celled, many-seeded, six-toothed at top. 
1. Stellaria nemorum, or wood stitchwort.—Root peren¬ 
nial, small, creeping. Stems several, weak and lax, three 
feet high, branched, hollow, round, leafy, with hairs scat¬ 
tered here and there on it, chiefly in the upper part. Leaves 
opposite, pale, green, entire, a little hairy. The numerous 
star-like flowers are visible at a distance, and of a delicate 
structure when. closely examined. They are wh.te and 
upright, in a terminating, dichotomous, many flowered, 
divaricating,pubescent panicle, having a pair of small leaves 
at each of the forkings.—Native of Europe, in woods. In 
Britain, it is confined to moist woods and borders of clear 
shaded springs, in the northern counties of England, and the 
low-lands of Scotland : flowering in May. 
2. Stellaria dichotoma, or dichotomous stitchwort. — 
Leaves ovate, sessile ; stem dichotomous ; flowers solitary ; 
fruiting peduncles reflexed. Root annual.—Native of the 
mountains of Siberia. 
3. Stellaria radians, or ray-flowered stitchwort.—Leaves 
lanceolate serrulate; petals five parted.—Native of Siberia 
in bogs. 
4. Stellaria bulbosa, or bulbous stitchwort.—Leaves ovate- 
lanceolate, veinless beneath; stem somewhat branched; 
peduncle one-flowered; root filiform, creeping, buibiferous. 
—Native of the mountains of Carinthia, in muist shady 
places. 
5. Stellaria Holostea, or greater stitchwort.—Leaves lan¬ 
ceolate, serrulate; petals bifid; calyx nerveless. Root pe¬ 
rennial, creeping, weak, slender, jointed, sending down 
fibres to a considerable distance. Stems several, a foot 
high, decumbent at the base, then upright, supporting them¬ 
selves among bushes or grass, otherwise the least breath of 
wind would lay them prostrate; leafy, brittle, but with a 
strong woody structure in their inner part, as is the case with 
most of ih.s tribe. Leaves in pairs at each joint, sessile, 
long, acuminate, a little revolute and serrulate at the edge. 
Flowers on very long, erect, rugged peduncles, from the 
axils of the upper pair of leaves, forming a sort of dicho¬ 
tomous panicle, white.—Na'ive of Europe. Very frequent 
in woods, among bushes, and about dry hedge bottoms in 
England: flowering in May and June. Its large brilliant 
white starry blossoms render it conspicuous in the spring. 
6 . Stellaria graminea, or lesser stitchwort.—Leaves linear- 
lanceolate, quite entire; panicle terminating, divaricating; 
calyx three-nerved, equal, or nearly so, to the petal. Root 
perennial, creeping. The whole habit much like that of the 
preceding, but smaller, and of a grass-green, not glaucous 
colour.—Native of Europe. The white starry blossoms of 
this delicate plant prettily bespangle furze-bushes, heath, and 
low broom, on a gravelly or sandy soil. 
7. Stellaria glauca, or glaucous marsh stitchwort.— 
Leaves linear, lanceolate, quite entire, glaucous; peduncles 
erect; calyx three-nerved, shorter than the petals.—Native 
of Germany and England : flowering in June and July. 
8 . Stellaria crassifolia, or thick-leaved stitchwort.—Leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, thickish, glaucous; peduncles one-flow¬ 
ered, solitary, axillary; petals bigger than the calyx; stem 
upright. Annual.—Native of Germany, in moist meadows. 
9. Stellaria uliginosa, or bog stitchwort.—Leaves elliptic, 
lanceolate, quite entire, callous at the tip ; flowers sub-pa- 
nicled, lateral; petals shorter than the calyx. Root annual, 
small and fibrous.—Native of Europe, on the sides of springs, 
rivulets, ditches and wet springy meadows. In England not 
uncommon. It flowers in June and July. 
10 . Stellaria undulata, or wave-leaved stitchwort.—Leaves 
Vot. XXIII. No. 1591. 
oblong, waved; stem angular; flowers axillary.—Native of 
Japan, by way sides : flowering there in April. 
11. Stellaria cerastoides, or Alpine stitchwort.—Leaves 
elliptic-oblong, obtuse; stem subbiflorous; calyxes one- 
nerved, pubescent. Root perennial, creeping. Flowers 
erect, white.—Native of the mountains of Lapland, Norway, 
Switzerland, France, Piedmont and Scotland. 
12. Stellaria multicaulis, or many-stained stitchwort.— 
Leaves lanceolate, smooth; branches upright, quite simple; 
peduncles subsolitary, terminating; petals bigger than the 
calyx.—Native of the mountains of Carinthia. 
13. Stellaria humifusa, or procumbent stitchwort.—Leaves 
ovate, mostly on one side, sessile; stems procumbent, four- 
cornered ; peduncles solitary, abbreviated. This is an an¬ 
nual plant, with the petals a little larger than the calyx.— 
Native of Sweden and Norway. 
14. Stellaria biflora, or two-flowered stitchwort.—Leaves 
awl-shaped; branches two-parted; petals emarginate; ca¬ 
lyxes striated. This is a small plant, with the appearance 
of a sagina.—Native of the mountains of Lapland. Pe¬ 
rennial. 
15. Stellaria Groenlandica, or Groenland stitchwort.— 
Stems decumbent, subbiflorous; leaves linear, subciliate at 
the base; petals emarginate; fruits globular. Flowers large 
in proportion to the plant.—Native of Groenland. 
16. Stellaria arenaria, or sandwort stitchwort.—Leaves 
spatwlate; stem erect, bifid; branches alternate ; petals 
emarginate. Root annual, fibrous.—Native of Spain. 
17. Stellaria scapigera, or scape-bearing stitchwort.— 
Stemless; leaves linear-lanceolate, three-nerved; peduncles 
radical, one-flowered. Perennial. — Native country un¬ 
known. 
Propagation and Culture. — See Arenaria. 
STE'LLARY, adj. Astral; starry. Unused. Cocke- 
ram. 
STE'LLATE, adj. Pointed in the manner of a painted 
star.—One making a regulus of autimony, without iron, 
found his regulus adorned with a more conspicuous star than 
I have seen in several stellate regulus’s of antimony and 
mars. Eoi/le. 
STELLATE PLANTS, such as have their leaves growing 
on the stalks, at certain distances, in the form of a star with 
rays; or such flowers as are star-like, or full of eyes 
resembling stars. 
STELLA'TION, s. Emission of light as from a star. 
STE'LLED, adj. Starry.—And quench’d the stalled 
fires. S/i ak spear e. 
STELLENBOSCH and DRAKENSTEIN. These two 
form an extensive district of the settlement of the Cape of 
Good Hope. They include the whole extent from Cape 
Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa, to the river 
Koussie, die northern boundary of the colony. This district 
is 380 miles long, about 150 broad, and may contain an 
area of 55,000 square miles. The greater part consists of 
mountains, sandy hills, and Karroo plains, but the remain¬ 
der is the finest land in the colony. It is in the possession 
of about 1200 families, forming a population of 7256 
Christians. The slaves amount to 10,703, the Hottentots 
to about 5000, forming in all 22,959. About 39,146 
English acres are under cultivation. 
STELLENBOSCH, a village delightfully situated 26 
miles to the east of Cape Town, at the foot of a range of 
lofty mountains, near the Cape of Good Hope. It contains 
70 habitations, arranged in several streets and open squares, 
and planted with trees. 
STELLERA [so named by Gmelin, in memory of Georg. 
Wilh. Steller, adjunct of the Academy at Petersburgh], in 
Botany, a genus of the class octandria, order monogynia, 
natural order of vepreculae thymelaeae (Juss.) —Generic 
Character. Calyx none. Corolla one-petalled, funnel- 
form, permanent: tube filiform, long: border four or five 
cleft, with the lobes ovate. Stamina: filaments eight or ten, 
very short. Anthers oblong, alternately in the middle of 
the tube, and within the throat. Pistil: germ subovate. 
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