DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Abenaki a. 551 
on long, glutinous, fruit-stalks, the lateral ones with a pair of floral- 
leaves. Petals white, cloven scarcely half way down, nearly twice the 
length of the calyx. (It is certainly a Cerastium , differing only in the 
number of styles, a difference by no means constant. I have found it 
with four and five, but more frequently with three. Its resemblance to 
C. arvense , is very striking. Br. E.) 
(Alpine Stitchwort. E.) Highland mountains. Foundry Mr. Dick¬ 
son on Ben Nevis, Scotland. (On the side of Ben Bourde, a high moun¬ 
tain seven miles from I nvercauld. Mr. Brown. Aug. E.) 
ARENA'RIA.* Cal . five-leaves, expanding: Petals five, en¬ 
tire : Caps . one-celled, many-seeded. 
( 1 ) Stipulce none. 
A. peploi'des. Leaves egg-shaped, acute, fleshy : (calyx obtuse, with¬ 
out ribs. E.) 
Dicks. H. S. — E. Bot. 189— FI Dan. —624— Pet. 65. 9— Ger. Em, 622. 1. 
(Root creeping. Stems decumbent at the base, angular. Cal. sometimes 
purplish. Glands ten, alternate with the stamens. Of a different habit 
to other Arenarice. E.) Leaves egg-spear-shaped, half an inch long, 
somewhat embracing the stem, smooth, succulent, the points turned back. 
Flowers white, (small, axillary, one, two, or three together. E.) 
Sea Sandwort. (Welsh : Tywodwlydd arfor. E.) Sea shore frequent, 
and salt water marshes. P. June—July.t 
A. trinerVis. Leaves egg-shaped, three-fibred, pointed, on leaf¬ 
stalks. (calyx obscurely three-ribbed, with a rough keel. E.) 
Curt. 272— (E. Bot. 1483. E.)— Wale. — FI. Dan. 429— J. B. 364. 1— Pet. 
59. 1. 
Stems reclining, downy, cylindrical, (a foot high, E.) several growing to¬ 
gether in tufts. Branches mostly from the upper side. Leaves beset with 
very short fine hairs, and fringed with fine bristles; the lower nearly 
heart-shaped, on flat leaf-stalks ; the upper spear-egg-shaped, nearly ses¬ 
sile. Petals expanding, half as long as the calyx ; white. Stamens as 
long as the cup ; every other shorter. Styles sometimes two or four. 
Summits reflexed, woolly. Has greatly the habit of Stellaria media. 
Plantain-leaved Sandwort. (Welsh: Tywodwlydd llyriadd-ddail. E.) 
Woods and wet hedges. A. May—July. 
A. serpyllifo'lia. (Leaves egg-shaped, acute, sessile, scabrous : ca¬ 
lyx hairy; three outermost of its leaves five-ribbed. E.) 
FI. Dan. 977—Curt. 268— (E. Bot. 923. E.)— Ger. 488. 3 —Dod. 30. 
1— Lob. Obs. 246. 2 —Ger. Em. 612. 3 —Park. 1259. 3— Pet. 59. 2. 
(Leaves of the calyx ovate, acute, hairy, with a white, membranous edge; 
the three outermost furnished with five ribs, the two inner ones with only 
three. The number of the ribs of the calyx is of great importance for dis¬ 
criminating the species of this genus, as in Linum. E. Bot. Stems spread- 
* (From the arid, sandy places, in which these plants are produced. E.) 
t (In Yorkshire frequently used as a pickle. Mr. Travis. E.) 
