320 DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Cerastium. 



combined at the base, sessile. Fl. white. Most akin to 

 Stellaria and Arenaria, 



1. C. vulgatiim. Broad-leaved Mouse-ear Chick- 



weed. 



Hairy, viscid, tufted. Leaves ovate. Petals as long as the 

 calyx. Flowers longer tlian their stalks. 



C. vulgatum. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. \0.v. 2. 1039, A. Herb. Linn. A. 



Fl. Slice, ed. 2. 158. Sp. PL 627. FL Br. 496. EngL Bot. v.W. 



t.789. Light/. 240. Hook. Scot. 142. 

 C. viscosum. Huds.200. With. 433. HidllOl. Relh. 17S. Sibth. 



147. Abbot \0\. Curt.Lond.fasc.2.t.3D. 

 Myosotis n. 895. HalL Hist. v. \. 391. 

 M. arvensis hirsuta_, parvo flore. Toiirn. Inst. 245. VailL Par. 142. 



^.30./. 3. 

 Alsine hirsuta major, foliis subrotundis dilute vircntibus. Moris. 



V. 2. 551. sect. 5. t. 23. f. 10. In Morison's herbarium at Oxford. 

 A. hirsuta, Myosotis latifolia prsecocior. Raii Si/n. 348. 

 Auricula muris quorundam, flore parvo^ vasculo tenui longo. Bauh. 



HisLv.3.p.2.359.f. 



In fields, waste ground^ as well as on walls and dry banks, common. 



Annual. April, Maij. 



Root fibrous, small. Herb light green, hairy, of a pale tawny yel- 

 lowish hue when verging towards decay, very hairy, and some- 

 what viscid, all over. Stems several, rather upright, a span high, 

 round, leafy, panicled, forked, many-flowered, the exterior ones, 

 more spreading at first, but finally erect. Leaves of a broad 

 ovate, or elliptical, figure, bluntish, slightly recurved and con- 

 vex, TJOt an inch long. FL from the forks of the stem, erect, on 

 stalks shorter than the calyx, slightly glutinous, the upper ones 

 crowded. Calyx-leaves lanceolate, acute j the inner ones most 

 membranous at the edges. Pet. white, hardly longer than the 

 calyx, cloven nearly half way down. Stam. 10, all fertile, glan- 

 dular at the base. Caps, twice the length of the calyx, cylin- 

 drical, slightly curved upwards. Seeds furrowed, tuberculated, 

 tawny. 



2. C. viscosum. Narrow-leaved Mouse-ear Cliick- 



weed. 



Hairy, viscid, recumbent. Leaves lanceolate-oblong. 



C. viscosum. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1.437. ed. 2. 627. Herb. Linn. n. 2. 



FLSaec.ed.2.\bS. FLBr.497. EngL BoLv. W. t. 790. Light/. 



240. Hook. Scot. 142. 

 C. vulgatum. Hiids. 200. PFith. 433. Relh. 178^ S>blh.l46. Curt. 



Lond. /asc. 2. t. 34. Wade Dubl. 1 25. 

 Myosotis n. 893. HalL Hist, v. 1.390. 



