72 CARYOPHYLLE^E. 



It is also near S. dlcliasloides WILLIAMS in the same volume of the same 

 journal p. 436, from which it differs in having more hairy leaves. Besides, it 

 comes very near S. saxatilis HAM. from wliich it is hardly distinguishable. 

 All the plants above mentioned are very similar in every respect, and further 

 study will prove that they are one and the same species, though some of 

 them should be regarded as representing a variety of another. 



Stellaria uliginosa MURRAY ; BENTH. Fl. Hougk. p. 22 ; FENZL in 

 LEDEB. Fl. Ross. T. p. 393 ; REGEL PI. Radd. I. pp. 3S3 et 400 ; MAXIM. 

 Mel. Biol. IX. (1873) p. 49 ; MIQ. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 11 ; FRANCH. et SAVAT. 

 Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 51 ; EDGEWORTH et HOOK. f. in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 I. p. 233 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I p. 69 ; HENRY List PL 

 Formos. p. 19 ; ITO et MATSUM. Tent. Fl. Lutch. p. 315 ; DIELS Fl. Centr. 

 Chin. p. 320 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 36. 



Stellaria aqualica POLL. ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 398 ; " LEDEB. Fl. Alt. II. 

 p. 156," 



Stellaria unchdata THUMB. Fl Jap. p. 185 ; SIEB. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Earn. 

 Nat. p. 166. 



Larbrea aquatica ST. HIL. ; DC. Prodr. HI. p. 366. 



Larbrcea vliginosa HOOK. f. in Joum. Linn. Soc. I. p. 116. 



HAB. Exact localities are not given to our specimens. 



DISTRIB. Europe, Siberia, Japan, China, Himalaya, southern Africa, 

 northern America. 



Stellaria micrantha HAYATA (PI. XIY.) Materials for a Flora of 

 Formosa p. 36. Herb, prostrate at the base, ascening towards the 

 apex. Leaves opposite, sessile, 15 mm. distant, broadly ovate, 9 mm. 

 long, 6 mm. broad, aristate, acute at the apex, base abruptly at- 

 tenuate or rounded (in upper leaves), more or less embrac- 

 ing the stem. Cymes terminal or axillary, 5 cm. long, 4 cm. broad, 

 branches opposite, bracts minute, ovate, acute, 1 mm. long. Sepals 5 ovately 

 oblong, 2 mm. long, acute, squainose. Petals 5, minute, profoundly bi-fid, 

 (lobes lanceolate 1 mm. long, sinus acute) basal parts narrowed. Stamens 

 5. Styles 3, minute. Capsules ovoid, valvately dehiscent beyond half- 



