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Crrastium Bresersteinit. TAurian 
Movsk-EARED CHICKWEED. 
Class and Order. 
DEcANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Carvoruyitex. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-phyllus. Pet. 2-fida. Caps. 1-locularis apice 
decemdentata. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. — Ze 
Cerastium Biebersteinii ; caulibus basi repentibus adscen- 
denti-diffusis foliisque oblongo-lanceolatis tomentoso- 
lanatis, pedunculis erectis dichotomis, foliolis calycinis 
oblongis tomentosis, capsula ovata subcylindracea ca- 
lyce longiore. D.C. | 
Crerastium Biebersteinii. De Cand. in Mem. Soc. Hist. 
Nat. de Gen. v. 1. p. 463; equsd. Prodr. v. 1. p. 418. 
De Cand. Pl. rares de Gen. t. 11. 
Crrastium repens. Bieberst. Fl. Taurico-Caucas, v. 1. 
Ps 
Crrastium tomentosum « Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 629? 
-Descr. The lower part of the stem is slender and 
creeping, and near the base it throws out numerous as- 
cendent branches, which, as well as the whole leaves, are 
covered with a soft and dense-white tomentum. Leaves 
opposite, connate at the base, patent, linear-lanceolate, sub- 
acute. Panicles of flowers terminal, twice or thrice dicho- 
tomous, erect, with a single flower between the dichoto- 
mies: there are small opposite oblongo-ovate bractee at 
the base of the divisions of the panicle. Calyx of five, 
ae ovato- 
