442 CARYOPHYLLEZ. 
of the capsule). Ser. mss. in D. C. prod. 1. p. 414. Capsules 
cylindrical, with circinnate or revolute teeth. 
1 C. pavcirLo RUM (Stev. in litt. D. C. prod. 1. p. 414.) 
plant pilose ; leaves lanceolate, acute; flowers few, on long 
dichotomous peduncles, nodding, with a solitary flower rising 
from the fork ; petals and capsules much longer than the calyx. 
©. H. Nativeof Siberia. 
Few-flowered Mouse-ear Chickweed. Fl. June, July. Clt. 
1816. Pl. 4 foot. 
2 C. NEMmoRa`LE (Bieb. fl. taur. suppl. p. 317.) plant hairy, 
clammy ; stem erect, upper part forked; cauline leaves lanceo- 
late, acute; flowers axillary, solitary, spreading, on long pe- 
duncles ; petals length of calyx; capsules hardly longer than 
the calyx. ©. H. Native of Caucasus in groves. 
Grove Mouse-ear Chickweed. Fl. May, June. 
Pl. 1 foot. 
3 C. perrouia‘tum (Lin. spec. 627.) plant glabrous and 
glaucous ; stem erect, branched, or simple ; leaves lanceolate, 
connate, bluntish ; flowers in umbels; petals much shorter than 
the calyx. ©.H. Native of Greece, Barbary, and Siberia in 
sandy places.—Dill. elth. 295. t. 217. f. 284. good. 
Perfoliate-leaved Mouse-ear Chickweed. Fl. June, July. 
Clt. 1725. Pl. 2 feet. 
4 C. Cavca’sicum (Fisch. in litt. D. C. prod. 1. p. 414.) stem 
erect, dichotomous; branches elongated ; cauline leaves lan- 
ceolate, glabrous, but with scabrous margins ; petals length of 
the glabrous sepals ; capsules shorter than the pubescent pedicels. 
©. H. Native of Caucasus. C. elongatum, Bieb. fl. taur. 
suppl. p. 316. but not of Pursh. Flowers about the size of 
those of Stellaria Holéstea. Capsules somewhat cylindrical, 
broad, little longer than the calyx. 
Caucasian Mouse-ear Chickweed. FI. Ju. Jul. Pl. 1 foot. 
5 C. rricipum (Bieb. fl. taur. p. 362. suppl. p. 320.) plant 
villous; stems branched at the base, ascending, dichotomously 
umbellate ; leaves lanceolate, acute, hairy; sepals lanceolate, 
acute ; petals much longer than the calyx; capsules oblong. 
4Y. H. Native of the alps of Caucasus. C. purpurascens, 
Adams, ap. Web. et Mohr. cat. 1. p. 60. Flowers blue. 
Frigid Mouse-ear Chickweed. Fl. May. Pl. 4 to 4 foot. 
6 C. Dauv’ricum (Fisch. in Spreng. pl. min. cog. 2. p. 65. 
Schrank. hort. monac. t. 75. good.) plant smoothish, glaucous ; 
stem dichotomous ; leaves cordate-ovate, clasping the stem; 
fruit-bearing peduncles very long and deflexed ; sepals lanceo- 
late, with scarious margins; petals semibifid, longer than the 
calyx. .H. Native of all parts of Siberia amongst rubbish. 
C. connatum? Willd. ex Steud. nom. C. amplexicaile, Sims, 
bot. mag. t. 1789. good.—Gmel. sib. 4. p. 148. no. 49. t. 62. f. 1. 
Var. B, Holésteum (D.C. prod. 1. p. 415.) leaves linear-lan- 
ceolate, clasping the stem and rather ciliated ; stems and pedun- 
cles rather hairy. Fisch. in litt. C. nitens, Stev. in litt. 
Dahurian Mouse-ear Chickweed. Fl. May, Sept. Clt. 1815. 
Pl. 1 to 3 feet. 
7 C. ma’ximum (Lin. spec. 629.) plant puberulous; stems 
diffuse ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminated, tapering to both 
ends ; flowers large, in dichotomous umbels ; petals crenated 
and 2-lobed ; capsules ovate, about the length of the calyx. 
4y. H. Native of Siberia.—Gmel. sib. 4. p. 150. no. 51. t. 62. 
f. 2. Stems more or less hairy. Roots creeping. 
Largest-flowered Mouse-ear Chickweed. Fl. May, Sept. 
Clt. 1792. Pl. 4 to 1 foot. 
8 C. stettariorpEs (Moc. pl. nutk. icon. ined. D. C. prod. 1. 
p- 415.) stem erect, dichotomous, branched, generally 3-flowered, 
and are as well as leaves glabrous; leaves oblong, acuminated ; 
pedicels 1-flowered, terminal ; sepals lanceolate ; petals semibifid, 
twice the length of the calyx. ©.H. Native of North Ame- 
rica, about Nutka. 
Clt. 1818. 
XXXIV. CERASTIUM. 
Stitchwort-like Mouse-ear Chickweed. FI. June. July. Clt. 
1810. Pl. 4 foot. ; 
9 C. moxui'ssimum (Poir. suppl. 2. p. 164.) leaves clasping 
the stem, lanceolate, acute, covered with soft down; panicle 
diffuse, somewhat umbellate, ©? H. Native of Peru. Very 
like C. perfoliatum. - 
Softest Mouse-ear Chickweed. PI. 1 foot. 
Sect. II. O’rrnopon (from opboc, orthos, straight, and oboue 
ocovroc, odous odontos, a tooth; in allusion to the teeth of the 
calyx being straight). Ser. mss. in D. C. prod. 1. p. 415. 
Capsules cylindrical or ovate, with the margins of the teeth 
revolute. 
§ 1. 
* Capsules cylindrical, longer than the calyx. 
Petals equal in length to the calyx or smaller. 
10 C. picno’romum (Lin. spec. 628.) plant pilose, clammy ; 
stem branched at the top, dichotomous, with a solitary flower in 
each fork ; peduncles and petals almost equal in length to the 
calyx; segments of calyx lanceolate, acute ; capsules very long, 
erect ; leaves lanceolate. ©.H. Native of Spain and Algiers 
among corn. C. inflatum and C. glandulosum, Hort. berl. appear 
to be only varieties. Myosdtis dichOtomum, Meench. meth. 225. 
Alsine corniculata, Cluss. hist. 2. p. 184. 
Forked-stemmed Mouse-ear Chickweed. FI. June, Jul. Clt. 
1725. Pl. 4 foot. 
11 C. rupera'te (Bieb. fl. taur. 1. p. 357. suppl. p. 318.) 
plant hairy ; stem erect, dichotomous ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
bluntish ; flowers somewhat umbellate ; peduncles much longer 
than the calyx ; segments of calyx lanceolate, acute, equal in 
length to the petals; capsules pendulous, twice the length of 
calyx. ©.H. Native of Caucasus near Kisljar. 
Rubbish Mouse-ear Chickweed. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1817. 
Pl. 4 foot. . 
12 C. Tav’ricum (Spreng. ex herb. Balb. D.C. prod. 1. 
p- 415.) plant hairy ; stem erect, much branched ; leaves ovate; 
lower ones tapering to the base, upper ones sessile ; flowers 
dichotomously-panicled, equal in length with the peduncles; 
petals length of calyx; capsules oblong, rather tapering, twice 
the length of calyx. ©. H. Native of Tauria. Very like 
C. vulgatum, but the stems are more branched, leaves more 
numerous, and the flowers much smaller. f 
Taurian Mouse-ear Chickweed. Fl. May, July. Clt. 1820. 
Pl. 4 foot. 
13 C. Inny’ricum (Arduin. spec. D. C. prod. 1. p- 420.) 
flowers generally pentandrous ; petals emarginate ; stems very 
spreading and very hairy; calyx externally hairy. ©. H 
Native of the Morea and the Island of Cyprus on mountains. 
C. pilòsum, Sibth. and Smith, fl. græc. t. 454. but not of Horn. 
Flowers pentandrous, but according to Arduin decandrous. 
spreading plant like C. vulgatum. 
Illyrian Mouse-ear Chickweed. Fl. June, July. Pl. 4 foot. 
14 C. vurca rum (Lin. spec. 627.) plant hairy, rather clammy, 
pale-green; stems erect ; leaves elliptic, very blunt ; flowers dicho- 
tomous, somewhat umbellate, longer than the peduncles ; petals 
equalling the calyx in length ; capsules oblong, tapering, twice 
as long as the calyx. ©.H. Native throughout the whole of 
Europe in fields, waste ground, as well as on walls and dry 
banks, common. Plentiful in Britain. Smith, engl. bot. t. 789. 
C. viscdsum, Huds. ang. 200. Curt. lond. fasc. 2. t. 35. Bieb. 
fl. taur. and suppl. no. 884.—Vaill. par. 1. t. 30. £.3. C. bar- 
bulàtum, Wahl. fl. carp. no. 446. C. rotundifòlium, Sternb. 
et Hopp. in mem. soc. ratisb. 1818. p. 113. ex Bieb. l. c. 
Var. B, glomeràtum (D.C. fi. fr. 4. p. 776.) leaves very 
1 
