546 DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Sterlaria. 
E. Bot. 291 — Cam. Hort. 34— II. Ox. v. 20. 12. 
Stem (one foot or more high. E.) upright, hairy, rather viscid. Leaves " 
broad-spear-shaped, hairy, (two or three inches long. E.) Flowers 
solitary, on fruit-stalks, slanting, whitish. Calyx cylindrical; when in 
fruit, globular-egg-shaped, full of seed, scored, with a net-work of veins; 
teeth nearly as long as the calyx. Flower opening at night, sweet scented 
in the summer, not so in the autumn. Linn. Leaves growing together at 
the base. Flowers few, in the bosom of the upper leaves, and terminal, 
mostly nodding. Seed-vessel upright. Woodw. Blossom whitish, with a 
pinky tinge, only expanded in the evening. 
Night-flowering Catchfly. Corn-fields, in sandy soil, between New¬ 
market and Canvas Hall in Wood Ditton. About Norwich. Sandy 
fields, Norfolk, frequent. Mr. Woodward. (Very common about Weth- 
erby. Sir T. Frankland. Corn-fields at Headington, Stanton Harcourt, 
&c. Oxon, Sib thorp. Sunderland Ballast Hills. Mr. Weighed. Near 
Cleadon and South Shields, Durham. Mr. Winch. Corn-fields on the 
coast of Angus. Mr. G. Don. Hook. Scot. A. July. E.) 
S. acau'lis. (Depressed: petals slightly notched, crowned: leaves 
linear, fringed at the base: peduncle solitary, single-flowered: 
calyx smooth. E.) 
Dicks. H. S. — (E. Bot. 1081. E.)— Light/. 12. at p. 221 —FI. Dan. 21— 
Dill. Elth. 167. 206— Allion. 79. 1— Fona. Ap. Clus. ii. 341. 2 — Ger. Em. 
593. 8—Barr. 380—Park. 639. 10— J. B. iii. 768— Pet. 56. 4. 
Forms a thick turf. Leaves awl-shaped, smooth, but the edges beset with 
hooked teeth pointing downwards. Flowers single, bright purple. 
Fruit-stalks sometimes not half an inch high, but lengthening as the fruit 
advances to maturity, to one or two inches. Petals inversely heart- 
shaped, with two small teeth forming the crown. Capsule as long again 
as the calyx, smooth, shining, tinged with purple. Woodw. (Smith well 
observes that the term stemless is not strictly applicable to this plant, but 
rather alludes to its appearance at first sight. E.) 
Moss Campion. Mountains of Carnarvonshire, near Llanberris; Dart¬ 
moor, Devonshire ; Isles of Mull, Rum, and Skye. Ben Lomond. Light- 
foot, (sometimes with a white flower. Mr. Murray, in Hook. Scot. E.) 
Malghyrdy and Ben Vourlock. Mr. Brown. (On Dove Crags, on Fair- 
field, and on Ben Lawers and Ben y Gloe. Mr. Winch. Calcareous 
mountains of Leitrim and Sligo. Mr. Murphy. E.) P. May—June.* 
STELLA'RIA.f Cal. five leaves, expanding: Petals five, 
mostly divided to the base : Caps, one cell: $mfomany. 
S. nem'orum. Lower-leaves heart-shaped, on leaf-stalks; (upper 
ovate, sessile: E.) panicle with forked fruit-stalks. 
E. Bot. 92 — Kniph. 10 — FI. Dan. 271 — II. Ox. v. 23. 2 — Park. 762. 1— 
Col. Ecphr. 290. 2. 
* (This pretty little plant, in itself of humble habit, aspires to the most lofty stations, 
being abundant on the Alps of Switzerland, at an elevation of from seven to eight thousand 
feet above the level of the sea. It is said to have been the last phaenogamous plant observed 
by M. de Saussure during his ascent of Mont Blanc, in 1787. E.) 
t (From stella , a star ; descriptive of the star-like, or radiated appearance of the blos¬ 
som. E.) 
