362 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS: REVISION 
such specific names, to what Mr. Ball says in his remarks on 
Cerastium glomeratum, Thuill., in the course of his paper on the 
Flora of the Peruvian Andes. He writes: * It is, I think, time 
for botanists to free themselves from the servitude of adhering 
to a Linnean name when the object to which the name properly 
belongs is involved in confusion, and the practice serves only to 
prolong profitless controversy. Every one knows what is meant 
by Cerastium glomeratum, Thuill., but who is quite sure as to 
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Cerastium vulgatum, Linn. ? 
a. granatensis, Boiss. Elench. Pl. no. 34 (1840). 
Hermaphrodita, floribus pentameris. 
B. pyrenaica, Boiss. Elench. Pl. no. 34 (1840). 
Forma 1, legitima, Gren. et Godr. Fl. de France, i. p. 262. 
3-6 centim., polygama, floribus pentameris. 
Forma 2, condensata, Gren. et Godr. 
Minor, polygama, floribus tetrameris, caulibusque abbreviatis. 
Geogr. limits—The Pyrenees (both French and Spanish sides), 
and Sierra Nevada in Andalusia, up to 3330 metres. l 
Iconogr.—Boiss. Voy. Bot. Espagne, ii. t. 293; drawing m 
Herb. Kew. by Prétre (1824). 
Syn. A. amabilis, Bory, in Ann. Gén. Sc. Nat. Phys. iii. p. 5 (1820). 
A. decussata, Salisb. Prodr. p. 299. 
A. imbricata (non Bieb.), Lag. Prodr. in Anal. Cienc. Nat. v. 
p. 278 (1809). 
40. A. GRAVEOLENS, Schreb. in Nov. Act. Nat. Curios. ii. 
p. 478 (1767); Boiss. Fl. Orient. i. p. 700. 
B. grandiflora, Boiss. Fl. Orient. i. p. TOL. 
Habitu rotabiliter laxa ; petala calyce duplo longiora. 
y. glabrescens, Boiss. Fl. Orient. i. p. 701. 
Folia minus pubescentia. Sepala glabra tuberculata. E 
Hab. Anatolia: Mt. Manissa-dagh (on vertical precipitous 
cliffs) between Smyrna and Manissa (Magnesia). 
Post (Fl. Syr.) mentions a var. minuta, but the plant does not 
seem to differ from the type, except in the somewhat smaller 
flowers. The forms which are recorded from Greece and Rum elis, 
and which are narrow-leaved, should be referred to A. filicaulis. 
Geogr. limits —N. Island of Scio, in the Turkish Archipelago 
S. Mt. Sinai (A. deflexa, Decne. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1835, 
p. 277). 
E. Zebedani, in the Anti-Lebanon. 
W. Island of Crete. 
