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Show 180 Th BRITISH The leaves ftand in pairs, and are placed at fmall diftances from one another: they are of a dufky green, fhort, andpointed at the ends. The flowers are fmall and white, and they are compofed each offive petals, undivided at the tips. The feed-veflel is oval; and the feeds are very numerous, fmall, and brown. It is common on old walls, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it ine minor multicaulis. Others, “//ine minima. 6, Plantain-leaved Chickweed. Aline foliis plantaginis. YZorz, The root is compofed of numerous fender fibres. The ftalks are numerous, weak, tender, and fix inches high. The leaves ftand in pairs without footftalks: they are oblong and broad, largeft in the middle, pointed at the end, and of a pale green; and they have the ribs running, in the manner of thofe of plantain leaves, all lengthwife. This is a very obvious particular, and chiefly characterifes the plant. The flowers rife from the bofoms ofthe leaves on flender footftalks, or they ftand at the tops of the young fhoots, which rife from theleaves in great numbers: they are fmall and white. The feed-veffel is roundifh, and the feeds are fmall, numerous, kidney-fhaped, and brown. Tt is a native of our woods, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it fine plantaginis foliis, Others have followed him. The petals of the flower in this fpecies, as in the preceding, are undivided. Linneus makes the divifion of the petals a generical character of Alfne or chickweed: Mr. Ray did the fame before him; but we fee in thefe two plants the error of that determination : they plainly and palpably belong to the fame genus with the common chickweed, and we have thus joined them with that, and others of its kind, under the fame common name alfne: Mr. Ray, feparating them on this flight account, has been oblige d' to place them among the Spurreys, Jper- gle, plants with which they have noalliance, 7. Common Stitchwort. Alfine flore me anguftifolia. 7 The root is flender and creeping : it runs under the furface, and fends out clufters of fibres from manyparts. The ftalks are numerous, upright, and flender: they are of a brownith green, harfh, and edged; and toward the upper part have many branches. __They fapport themfelves among buthes, and rife to a foot and half high: The leaves ftand in pairs, and are long, narrow, and fharp-pointed, The flowers are numerous, fnow white, large, and very beautiful: they confift each offive petals divided at the ends; and they ftand on flender footftalks growing from the tops of the HERB AL. branches, and ofthe upper divifions of theftalks, The feed-veffels are large and roundifh; and the feeds are numerous andfmall, It is common under hedges, and flowers in May. C. Bauhine calls it Caryophyllus bolofteus arv glaber flore majore. Others, Gramenleucanthemuin, WeStitchwort. 8. Small-flowered Stitchwort. Alfine anguftifolia fore The rootis flenderandcreeping. The ftalks are numerous, ftrageling, weak, and a foot high. The leaves are narrow and long, harfh to the touch, and of a bluifh green. The flowers are white and fmall: they grow at the tops of the ftalks, on flenderpedicles, and they are very numerous. They confift each offive petals, dividedat the edge; and they have red buttons on the threads: this is a fingular circumftance, and diftinguithes the plant at fight. The feed-vyeffel is roundifh, and the feeds are numerous. It is common under hedges, together with the former; and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Caryophyllus holofteus arvenSis glaber flore minore. Others, Gramenlewcanthee mum minus. g. LowStitchwort with great flowers. Aline anguftifolia kumilior floribus maximus) The root is compofed of a tuft of fibres, and does not creep under the furface, as in the other. The ftalks are numerous, fharply edged, rigid, harh to the touch, and firm: they are not much branched, and they are ten inches high: they fupport themfelves very well at. this height, and do not need the affiftance of bufhes, as the commonkind. The leaves are narrow, long, and fharp-pointed: they ftand in pairs, and are of a greyifh green colour. The flowers are larse and white : they ftand at the tops of the branches, anu are compofed of five petals notchedat the top. The feed-veflél is round, and the-feeds are nu- THE BRITISH HERBAL. ‘The leaves are fmall, oblong, and narrow. The flowers are fmall and white: they ftand on flender footftalks, and many open together. The feed-veffel is fmall, and the feeds are numerous and roundith, It is not uncommon in Kent and Suffex in dry barren places.” It flowers in July. J. Bauhinecalls it Aline tenuifolia; and others have continuedin general the name unaltered. 11. Little graffy-leaved Chickweed. foltis gran 12. Cluftered-leaved Chickweed. sangufpis crebris flore majore. The root is fmall and flender, white, and furnifhed with many fibres. The ftalks are very numerous, flender, ridged, of upright, and about five inches high: they are . a pale green, and they fend out frequent branches leaves ftand verythick: the principal ones one ed in pairs at {mall diftances from and their bofoms are crowded with of others; fo that they appear covered merous. It is a native of our fen counties, and flowers in June. Ray calls it Caryophyllus holofteus «i ifis medius. Mentzelius, Caryophyllus holofteusf olis are very large, and white. is {mall and round; and the The fe 10. Fine-leaved Chickweed. green. The flowers are fmall and white, The feed-veffels are large, and of an oval figure; and the feeds numerous and yellowith, of a roundedfigure, but Matted. It is not uncommon in the dry paftures of Buckinghamfhire; and flowers in July. Ray calls it Aline montana minima acini effigie rotundifolia; and others follow him. flore magno. with them. Theyare narrow, oblong, and fharp-pointed: arts of the ftalks the principal on the ; up} diftinguifhable ; and theycover the 1¢ joints, as the leaves of heath. Sramines. The leaves ftand in pairs, and are fmall and roundifh; of a thin, tender fubftance, and ob{cure 14. Large-fruited fea Chickweed. The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with numerous fmall fibres. The ftalks are flender, upright, not at all branched, and about four inches hig! de The leaves ftandin pairs, at moderate diftances, and pointing upwards: theyare oblong, narrow, pointed, and of afine green; fo that they very muchrefemble ends of {mall grafs leaves. The flowers are very large, and fnow white: t nd on the top ofthe ftalk, and fift each offive large petals, whichare at the ends, but terminate in a point. The feed-veffel is | and the feeds are numerous, and very minute. It is common in our northern counties on rocks, and the fides of highhills, It flowers in April. Ray iffimo axifrag 1 a name longer than the plant. at the tops of the se Alfine maritima pufilla frufiu magno. The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with a great many fibres. The ftalks are numerous and fhort: they are fpread upon the ground, and fo covered with leaves that it is hard to diftinguith their form. The leaves are fhort andbroad, pointed at the end, and of a bluifh green. They ftand in pairs, but generally grow the oppofite ways; fo that they look, upon the whole, to be difpofed croffwife. The flowers are {mall and white; and the feedveffels are oval: they are remarkably large for fo {mall a plant, and contain numerous feeds. It is common on our fea-coafts, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Aisne Uitoralis portulace foliis, Others, Anthyllis maritima lentifolia. 15. Procumbent narrow-leaved Chickweed, Alfine maritima procumbens anguftifolia, The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with many fibres. The ftalks are very numerous, fmall, weak, and ofa pale green: they {pread every way upon the ground, andare four inches long, and very muchbranched. The leaves are numerous: they ftand in pairs, re full of young ones, and of fmall fhoots anches, in their bofoms ; fo that the whole plant is very bufhy. Theleaves are fhort, and narrower than thofe of the laft mentioned fpecies. The flowers rife from the bofoms of the leaves all the way up the ftalks: they are numerous, fmall, and white. The feed-veffels alfo are fmall; and the feeds minute and numerous. It is common onour fea-coafts, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls. it Axthyllis maritima chamefyche fimilis. Ray, Alfine maritima fupina foliis ices. Our people, Sea knotgra/s, and Sea Alfine tenuifolia. The root is astuft of long and flender fibres the leaves that firft rife from it are extremely narrow, and of a pale green: many ftalks rife among thefe, and they then grow yellow, and foon fade. The ftalks are lender, upright, and ten inches high. They are ofa yellowith green, not much branched, anddivided at the top into.a wide h J 16. Small-flowered water Chickweed, Alfine paluftris flofeulis parvis. ed, andfull of fibres. ks are numerous, fmall, irregularly about an inch and half high. are placed in pairs: they are ob- f afrefh green; obtufe at the not at all divided at the edges. Aaa The |