DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Stellaria. 649 
S. gramin'ea. Leaves strap-spear-shaped, very entire: (panicle ter¬ 
minal, spreading: calyx three-ribbed. E.) 
(2?. Bot. 803. E.)— Kniph. 10— Gmel. iv. 61. 2— Pet. 58. 3— Ger. 43. 2— 
J. B. iii. 361. 3. 
(Smaller and more slender than S. holostea, one to two feet high, not glau¬ 
cous. Flowers small. E.) Petals as long as the cup, white, (deeply 
cloven into linear segments. E.) 
Lesser Stitchwort. (Welsh: Tafod yr edn lleiaf. E.) Meadows, pas¬ 
tures, hedge banks, and thickets. P. May. 
(S. sca'pigera. Stem shorter than the fruit-stalks: leaves strap-spear¬ 
shaped, rough-edged: calyx three-nerved, nearly as long as the 
petals. 
E. Bot. 1269. 
Stem very short, hairy, thickly set with leaves. Leaves not glaucous, oppo¬ 
site, strap-spear-shaped, sharp pointed, smooth, one-fibred, not three- 
fibred ; nerve very thick at the base, towards the point scarcely percep¬ 
tible, border rough and slightly scolloped. Fruit-stalks very numerous, 
axillary, upright, far exceeding the stem, generally two inches long, four 
cornered, smooth, often undivided. Blossoms white, inconspicuous. 
Leafits of the calyx three-fibred, sharp-pointed, membranaceous at the 
edge, almost as long as the petals. Anthers red. The leaves turn red 
in decay, and remain long on the stem. The crowded leaves , short stems , 
and very numerous long flower-stalks, at once distinguish this species. 
Sm. 
Many-stalked Stitchwort. S. scapigera. Willd. By the sides of 
rivers in Scotland. In Perthshire and about Loch Nevis, Inverness-shire. 
Mr. G. Don. FI. Brit. P. June. E.) 
S. glau'ca. Leaves spear-strap-shaped, entire, glaucous, in cross pairs : 
petals half as long again as the three-ribbed calyx. 
( E. Bot. 825. E.)— Pet. 58. 2. 
(Corners of the stem roughish. Leaves strap-shaped, acute, very entire ; 
but when magnified the edges appear set with minute teeth, though not 
rough to the touch. Panicle lateral. Petals not quite twice the length 
of the calyx. Stem and leaves appear under a lens sprinkled with nume¬ 
rous, minute, white dots, and its glaucous colour is owing to this circum¬ 
stance. Br. E.) 
(Of intermediate size between S. holostea and graminea, with much of the 
habit of the former. E.) 
Differs from S. graminea , not only in having shorter and stiffei stems, but 
in the leaves being more rigid, glaucous, and acute, and the flowers 
larger. Ray Syn. 347. 3. Flowers white. 
(Glaucous Marsh Stitchwort. Welsh: Tafod yr edn llwydlas. 
S. media. Sibth. (but this trivial name being rendered objectionable by 
rant produce of no less than seven or eight successive crops in the year, while their depreda¬ 
tions effectually counterbalance the inconvenience which such amazing powers of reproduc¬ 
tion might otherwise occasion ; and thus does nature by a provision the most apposite 
maintain the equilibrium of all things, both small and great. E.) 
