Arenaria 



CAKYOPIIVLLACE.^ 



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Annual. Stem lax, procumbent, puberulous. Leaves linear or lanceo- 

 late or oblong-lanceolate, acute, narrowed to base, '5-3 cm. 1. Sepals 

 keeled, acuminate, about 4 mm. 1. Petals slightly lorger or shorter than 

 the sepals, rarely absent. Seeds lens-shaped, smooth, less than 1 mm. in 

 diam. 



Fig. 68. Arenaria lanuginosa Rokrb. 



A, Apex of branch x n- 



B, Flower X 4. 



C, Capsule open x 4. 



D, Seed cut lengthwise x S ; (?, endo- 

 sperm ; c, cotyledons ; r, radicle. 



3. CERASTIUM L. 



Herb. Flowers in terminal dichotomous cymes, often 



contracted. Sepals 5. Petals 5, 2-fid. Stamens 10. Ovary 



1 -celled ; styles 5, distinct from base, opposite the sepals. 



Capsule cylindrical, dehiscing at apex by 10 teeth, many- 

 seeded. 



Species about 100, natives of the whole world, but confined 

 to mountains in the tropics. 



C. viseosum L. Sp. PL 437 (1753); Gren. Cer. 25; Grhch. 

 Fl Br. W. Ind. 55; Rohrh. in Fl. Bras. .riv. pt. 2, 279. 

 C. glomeratum Thiiill. Fl. Paris, ed. 2, 226 (1799); Syme Ew/L 

 Bot. cd. 3, //. 82, /. 221. C. spathulatum Pers. Si/u. i. 520 ; 

 Macf. Jam. i. 55. (Fig. 69.) Type in Herb. Linn. 



Mouse-Ear Chick weed. 



Catherine's Peak, Macfadyen ; March ; Blue Mt. Peak, J. P. 2028, 



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