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eachjoint of the stem. Flowers on long or short crooked fruit-stalks rising 
from the bosom of the leaves. Blossom white, (minute, seldom entirely 
open, whence its English name. Blinks. E.) Seeds black, shining, dotted, 
reniform. Smith observes that the capsules have occasionally three valves, 
and three seeds. E.) 
Water Chickweed. Blinks. (Welsh: Lyfr-wlyddyn y jfynnon. E.) 
Springs and watery lanes. Sometimes in wet ploughed lands. Wet 
heaths in Norfolk, frequent. Mr. Woodward. (On the summit of Salis¬ 
bury Craigs, and on the banks below. Greville. E.) Hockley Pool 
grate, near Birmingham. Marazion Marsh, Cornwall, where it grows 
as large as the figure of Micheli, (possibly a distinct variety. Also ob¬ 
served by Mr. Gerard E. Smith, on turf near the boat-house. Sand- 
gate East, Kent. A. May. 
TILLiE'A* Calyx with three or four divisions : petals three or 
four, equal: Caps . three or four, two seeds in each. 
Sm. E.) 
T. muscosa. Trailing: flowers sessile, mostly three-cleft. 
B. Bot. 116 — Rose 2. 2 — Mich. 20. 
(The whole plant is smooth, so small and depressed that it only becomes 
remarkable by the ample reddish patches which it forms on dried sands. 
Sm. E.) Stems at first nearly upright, generally red. Rose. Paris of 
fructification never more than three. Leaves in pairs, succulent. Floral- 
leaves shaped like the other leaves, but smaller. Stalks considerably 
longer after flowering. (Flowers generally solitary, mostly three-cleft, 
sometimes four, or, according to Gsertner, five-cleft. Petals smaller than 
the calyx, awl-shaped. FI. Brit. By cultivation the respective parts of 
fructification may be increased to five. E.) 
Mossy Red-shanks. Dry barren heaths, Norfolk and Suffolk. Mr. 
Woodward. A troublesome weed on the gravel walks at Holkham. Sir 
J. E. Smith. P. May—June. 
HOLOS'TEUM.f Cali/i 'five-leaved : Petals five, jagged : Caps . 
one-celled, nearly cylindrical, opening at the apex. 
H. umbella'tum. Flowers in umbels. (Leaves ovate, acute. E.) 
Licks. H. S. — (Ilook. FI. Lond. E.)— E. Bot. 27 — J. B. iii. 361. 1 —Rose 
2. 4— Ger. Em. 595. 16— Park. 1338. 6—R. Ox. v. 22. 46. 
(Stems weak, partly decumbent, branched from the bottom only, four or 
five inches high, hairy and glutinous between the joints in the upper part. 
Leaves hardly an inch long, single-ribbed, glaucous, and rather succulent, 
quite entire at the edges; tapering at the base into short, broad, com¬ 
bined foot-stalks. Flower-stalks about five, umbellate ; at length perfectly 
reflexed. Sm. E.) Whole plant smooth. Stem upwards bare of leaves. 
Fruit-stalks terminating, mostly pendulous, of various lengths, each with 
one flower. Woodw. Petals pale reddish; toothed at the end, but not 
deeply divided as in the Cerastia. Stamens three, sometimes more. 
* (After Tilli, Professor of Botany at Pisa, 1723. E.) 
t (This name has been explained, (though perhaps not very satisfactorily), by anti» 
phrasis, from oAoVtso!/ ; oAo; all, and oe-Teov, bones; being soft and totally without the 
hardness of bones. E.) 
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