I saw ‘Stellaria minima’ [water starwort] everywhere around here though botanists consider it to be rare.2 It is not a distinct species created by the Creator but one of the species in nature that has been changed by culture. For we know that the ordinary ‘Stellaria’ is always to be found floating in water whereas minima never grows in water but in places where the water has dried up during the dry season of the year. It is thus lack of nourishment that prevents it growing erect and makes it creep and remain small. If anyone doubts this, let him put it in a brook where there is a steady supply of water – or put the greater Stellaria somewhere where the water is beginning to dry up -and he will get confirmation of it.