FLORA OF VAN DIEMAN’S LAND. 411 
Flos apetalus. Calycis segmenta ovato-acuminata, uninervia, 
longitudine $ capsule subsquantia. Capsula unilocularis, 
- 9-valvis. 
Differs from the preceding species in being more tufted, 
the leaves narrower and flexuose, and in the calycine seg- 
ments being much shorter and less acute. In both species 
the capsule is 5-valved, which, with the apetalous flowers, 
would seem to indicate their close affinity with Sagina. 
l. Stellaria angustifolia, Hook. Bot. Journ. p. 250. 
Formosa. Mr Lawrence (n.241). Mr Gunn (n. 238). 
2, S. pungens, Duperrey Voyage, t. 78.—S. SSRI ON; 
Hook. l. c. p. 250. 
Common; attaining to the height of five feet by twining 
among the irübnding shrubs. Mr Lawrence (1831). Mr 
Gunn (n. 96). 
.. 8. S. flaccida; caule elongato debili ramoso nitido glabro, 
foliis ovato-lanceolatis acutissimis ciliatis in petiolum brevem ` 
attenuatis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis folio triplo longi- 
oribus, petalis bipartitis, sepalis glabris uninerviis marginibus 
albidis longioribus. Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. l. c. p. 275. Mr 
Gunn (n. 450, of 1835).—8. minus flaccida, hirsutior, petiolis 
brevioribus. Mr Gunn (n. 450 of 1837). 
= 4. S. multiflora; glaberrima, caulibus e basi ramosissima 
 decumbentibus, foliis sessilibus lanceolatis acutissimis basi 
. Ccoadunatis, pedunculis terminalibus axillaribusque (ex omni 
- nodo) solitariis erectis foliorum longitudine, sepalis lanceolatis 
 &cuminatissimis obsolete 3-nervibus, petalis deficientibus. 
Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. t. 215. Mr Gunn (n. 451). 
= 5. S. cespitosa, n. sp. (Jc. Pl. ined.); glabra, opaca, cæs- 
-pitosa, caulibus ramosis adscendentibus, foliis lineari-lanceo- 
tis integerrimis sessilibus divaricatis, pedunculis axillaribus - 
nifloris, calycibus ovato-lanceolatis subacutis, petalis pro- 
funde bifidis calyce longioribus. 
In a marsh at rias Head. Mr Gunn (n. 652 and 653?) 
Stem branching, ascending, 2—4 inches long, thick. Pe- 
uncles about 4—14 inch long, incrassated below the flower. 
lowers about the size of S. media. Stamens 10, Styles 8. — — 
