550 DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Stellaria. 
the admission of Alsine media into the present genus, our Author substi¬ 
tuted glauca, which has been followed by Smith, Hooker, Greville, and 
other Botanists. E.) S. graminea (3 , Linn. Huds. (In bogs and marshy 
places. E.) On ditch banks in the Isle of Ely, plentiful. Ray. Otmore, 
Oxfordshire. Sibthorp. About Falmouth. (Marshy ground on the top of 
Braid Hill, near Edinburgh. Mr. Brown. On St. Faith’s Newton bogs, near 
Norwich. Sir J. E. Smith. Marshes near Beverley. Col.Machell. Com¬ 
mon near Copgrove, Yorkshire. Rev. J. Dalton. Side of clear streams 
near Tunbridge Wells. Forster; and various other parts of Sussex; Bat¬ 
tersea fields, near Nine Elms. Sowerby. Bot. Guide. In ditches in Cors 
ddygai, below Berw, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Lochend, and Duddingston 
Loch, Edinburgh. Mr. Maughan. Hook. Scot. E.) P. June—July. 
S. uligino'sa. (Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, entire, with a callous tip: 
flowers irregularly panicled, lateral or terminal: petals shorter 
than the calyx. Sm. E.) 
(Curt. N.E.—E . Bot. 1074. E.)— Pet. 58. 4 —Ger. 490. 9 —Ger. Em. 613. 
8 —H. Ox. v. 23. 8 —J. B. iii. 365. 2. 
Stems several, from two or twelve inches high, square, weak, and sometimes 
creeping at the base, above upright, extending beyond the panicles, but 
little branched; branches upright. Leaves smooth, except at the base, 
sessile or tapering down into short leaf-stalks, upright. Panicles pointing 
one way, sessile, upright, generally two on each stem; mostly consisting 
of three primary branches, the outermost bearing a single flower; the 
other two, in the more luxuriant plants, dividing into forks, with a fruit- 
stalk bearing a single flower at each fork; the shorter as long again as 
the single fruit-stalk ; and the third nearly as long again as the second. 
Flower-scales two at each fork of the panicle. Petals white ; segments 
strap-shaped. Styles sometimes four or five. St. (Plant smooth and 
pale; leaves not an inch long. The peculiar inflorescence, the short 
petals, and the form and structure of the leaves, mark S. uliginosa with 
sufficient precision. E. Bot. E.) 
Bog or Fountain Stitchwort. (Welsh: Tafod yr edn y gors. E.) 
S. uliginosa. Schreb. S. Dilleniana. Leers. S. graminea y, Linn. Huds. 
Lightf. (3, Alsine longifolia uliginosis proveniens locis. J. B. iii. 365. R. 
Syn. 347. Alsine fontana. Ger. 490. Em. 613. Alsine aquatica media. 
Bauh. Pin. 251. Alsine. Hall. n. 882. /3. Sides of springs, rivulets, 
ditches, and boggy meadows. Rivulets on the side of Malvern Hills, 
and on the side of the hill at the west end of Powick Ham, near Wor¬ 
cester. Dr. Stokes. Moist grounds, near Leeds. Mr. Wood. Marshes in 
Cornwall. Mr. Stackhouse. Hockley Pool dam, near Birmingham. 
(Banks of the Erme near Ivy Bridge, Devon. Rev. Pike Jones. Ditch 
on the west side of the Common, and at the side of a pit in one of the 
Packmore fields, Warwick. Perry. E.) A. June. 
S. cerastoPdes. (Leaves elliptic-oblong, smooth: fruit-stalks mostly 
two-flowered, downy: calyx-leaves with a single downy nerve. 
E-) 
Dicks. H. S. — Sm. PI. Ic. 15— (E. Bot. 911. E.)— FI. Dan. 92 — Gunn. ii. 
62— Jacq. Coll. i. 19. 
Stems trailing, three or four inches long, flowering branches ascending, 
naked, cylindrical, smooth. Leaves sessile, half an inch broad, opposite, 
egg-oblong, blunt, very smooth. Flowers terminal, one, two, or three, 
