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somewhat approaching the present one, but thrice or four 
times the size of it. 
7. CERASTIUM. 
13. C. alpinum. 
Inhabits the mountains of Switzerland and the Pyrenees, 
and is probably general from the southern and temperate 
parts of Europe to the extreme north. 
It is not noticed either by Pursh or Richardson as existing 
on the continent of America (where, however, C. viscosum 
reaches to the shore of the Arctic Sea: Richardson); but is 
found at Igloolik, Fern Island, Baftin's Bay, Melville Island, 
and Greenland. 
8. STELLARIA. 
14. S. humifusa. 
This appears to be entirely a maritime plant. It is found in 
Nordland and Finmarck, according to Wahlenberg, who has . 
however confounded it with the S. crassifolia of Ehrhart. I pos- 
sess it from Varanska, near the North Cape, from Dr. Swartz. 
Dr. Hornemann has sent it to me from Greenland, where like- 
wise Mr. Jameson found it; and it was met with during Cap- 
tain Parry's second voyage at Neerlo-Nakto. 
15. S. cerastoides. 
A small and injured specimen, sufficient, however, to 
satisfy me that it is the real plant. A native of Lapland, 
Iceland, the alps of the south of Europe, as the Carinthian, 
those of Dauphiny and the Pyrenees. Nowhere noticed as 
inhabiting the continent of America. 
16. S. Ed- 
