DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Spergula. 567 
On AberfFraw Common, bordering on Bwlan farm, Anglesey, may possibly 
prove a distinct species. E.) 
(Dwarf Mouse-ear Chickweed. Welsh: Corn-wlyddyn; Clust Lly - 
goden ; corraidd; a blodeuddail gwahanedig. E.) Walls, pastures, and 
heaths. A. April—May. 
(2) Capsules globose. 
C. umbellatum 3 see Holosteum umbellatum. 
(C. tetrandrum , see Sagina Cerastoides. E.) 
C. aquat'icum. Leaves heart-shaped, sessile: flowers solitary: cap¬ 
sules pendent, (quinquedentate, petals deeply divided. E.) 
(E. Bot. 538. E.)— Curt. — Dod. 29. 1— Ger. Em. 611. 1 —Park. 769. 2— 
Ger. 488. 1. 
{Siam, always ten, and styles five. Sm. Stems weak and straggling, 
one to two feet long, branched, viscid upwards. E.) In habit much re¬ 
sembling the larger plants of Stellaria nemorum , but the petals are much 
larger than the calyx, and the hairiness on the stem is general and not 
limited, as in that plant, to a line extending along it. Leaves often heart- 
spear-shaped, and sometimes curled at the edge. Whole plant set thick 
with fine short hairs, terminated by globular heads, containing a clammy 
juice. Flowers white. 
(Marsh Mouse-ear Chickweed. E.) Watery places, banks of rivers, 
mostly among bushes. P. July.* 
SPER'GULA.f Cal. five leaves: Petals five, entire : Caps. 
egg-shaped, of one (five cells, according to Hooker, E.) 
cell, and five valves. 
S. arven'sis. Leaves in whorls: (peduncles reflexed: seeds more or 
less bordered. E.) 
Curt. — (E. Bot. 1535. E.)— FI. Ban. 1033 —Dod. 6$7—Lob. Obs. 467. 1— 
Ger. Em. 11 26—Park. 562—<7. B. iii. 722. 1 —Pet. 59. 6. 
(Stems six to twelve inches high, swollen at the joints. Leaves linear, 
about three on each side of every joint, linear, narrow, fleshy, flat above, 
rounded beneath. Panicle branched, of many flowers. E.) Stamens in 
the autumn frequently fewer than ten. Seeds rough with rising dots, 
when ripe black, with an obsolete border. Flowers white. 
Corn Spurrey. (Rough-seeded Corn Spurrey. Irish: Cabrius. 
Welsh: Troellig yr yd; Cedor y wrach. E.) Corn-fields and sandy 
places, especially where water has lain; gravel walks. A. July—Sept.J 
* (This species, tender, succulent, and abundant in moist places, is not unacceptable 
to cattle. E.) 
+ (Diminutive of spargando; as scattering about its seeds with something like an elastic 
force : or rather, according to Dodoneeus, latinized from the name of this herb in Brabant, 
whence also its English appellation. E.) 
+ Poultry are fond of the seed ; and the inhabitants of Finland and Norway make bread 
of them when their crops of corn fail. Experience shows it to be very nutritious to cattle 
that eat it. Horses, sheep, goats, and swine eat it. Cows refuse it. (Cassida Spergulce 
is found upon it. (It is occasionally a troublesome underling weed? but a larger growing 
