Bank of bluebells and stitchwort along the edge of a wood. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
The brilliant white flowers of stitchwort form drifts along hedgerows and verges. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Its name, stitchwort, no doubt alludes to the plant's supposed virtue in cases of "stitches" in the side. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
The line between Edge Wood and recently cultivated fields was white with cow parsley, stitchwort and wild garlic. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Wenlock Edge] Reference
Here is blue speedwell and the delicately pencilled stitchwort with its pure snow-white blossoms and delicate green leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Holostea (greater stitchwort); also Parietaria Officinalis (wall pellitory), not yet in bloom, and in a pond Stratiotes Aloides (water soldier) in great abundance. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
On rocky and gravelly beaches there are gravel sedge Carex glareosa, sea plantain Plantago maritima, Greenland scurvygrass Cochlearia groenlandica and low stitchwort Stellaria humifusa. From Wordnik.com. [Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland] Reference
They were now on the high uplands by the coast, driving between the beautiful banks, which were starred with primroses and stitchwort and red dead-nettle and a dozen other bright and tender-hued firstlings of the year. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
"We shall all be pixie-led if we gather the white stitchwort!" said. From Wordnik.com. [Monitress Merle] Reference
On May 1 a stitchwort was in flower, a plant that marks the period distinctly. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
Coming out from the stitchwort and grasses, the spiders often ran over his shining dark brown surface, something the colour of glazed earthenware. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
And then again they struck into a by-lane with tall hedges, the banks underneath which were bright with stitchwort and speedwell and white dead-nettle. From Wordnik.com. [Prince Fortunatus] Reference
On a recent evening we walked this way, along the twisting undulations of the old road between verges resplendent with stitchwort, bluebells and red campion. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Give me the old road, the same flowers -- they were only stitchwort -- the old succession of days and garland, ever weaving into it fresh wild-flowers from far and near. From Wordnik.com. [The Open Air] Reference
I see in the fields and meadows the bird's foot trefoil, the oxeye daisy, the lady smocks, sweet hemlock, butterbur, the stitchwort, and the orchis, the "long purpled" of Shakespeare. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
Sometimes the corolla closes and brings the anthers and stigma into contact; in others the anthers cluster round the stigmas, both maturing together, as in many buttercups, stitchwort. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
Whorls of woodruff and grass-like leaves of stitchwort are rising; the latter holds but feebly to the earth, and even in snatching the flower the roots sometimes give way and the plant is lifted with it. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
Over the valley that I had seen before so parched had spread the soft verdure of young grass; hedges of quince were all abloom, and at their roots the stitchwort mingled its white starry flowers with the matchless blue of the. From Wordnik.com. [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference
Durracombe was not quite so good a neighbourhood for flowers as Chagmouth; still, they found a fair variety, and were able to chronicle early blooms of such specimens as the greater stitchwort, the ground ivy, and the golden saxifrage. From Wordnik.com. [Monitress Merle] Reference
Beyond the street and a row of cottages, they began to climb; at first a gentle ascent, on either hand high hedges of flowering blackthorn, banks strewn with primroses and violets, and starred with the white stitchwort; great leaves of foxglove giving promise for future days. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
Fresh parties came dropping in; some laden with wild flowers -- almost with branches of hawthorn, indeed; while one or two had made prizes of the earliest dog-roses, and had cast away campion, stitchwort, ragged robin, all to keep the lady of the hedges from being obscured or hidden by the community. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Woman and other Tales] Reference
And the stitchwort with its pearly star. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Chickweed; stitchwort. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The spring advances rapidly, multitudes of primroses, dog-violets, periwinkles, stitchwort. ". From Wordnik.com. [Pages from a Journal with Other Papers] Reference
Six kinds of clovers and vetches; and besides, dandelion, and rattle, and oxeye, and sorrel, and plantain, and buttercup, and a little stitchwort, and pignut, and mouse-ear hawkweed, too, which nobody wants. From Wordnik.com. [Madam How and Lady Why] Reference
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