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Alsinc vcrna glabra Vaill. 13ot. paris. lab. 3. ic. 2. 

 Chamaelinum gramineo scu acuto folio Bark. Ic. lab, 1 i(>5. ic. 2. 



|3. octandra , dichotomo-paniculala, elatior, floribus octandris. 



Radix fibrosa. Caulis solitarius aui plures, erecti vel ascendentes, 

 teretes, laeves, graciles, siniplices aut ex ipsa basi ramosi, uni- 

 triunciales, uni-iriflori , in (3 semipedales, dodrantales et ulira, di- 

 tricliotomo-paniculati j multiflori. Folia iniima lineari-subspatliulata, 

 acutiuscula, propiora, caetera anguste lanceolata, sensim acutiora 

 acuminatave, media paullo majora, summa iterum minora mafgineque 

 albo-inembranacea , omnia opposita, basi connata, uninervia, integer- 

 rima. Pedunculi filiformes, erecti, nudi, axillares, terminales ct cv 

 dichotomia. Sepala lanceolata, erecta, gibba, margine albo-scariosa. 

 Petala, alba, oblonga, integra , calice breviora. Stamina in a quatuor, 

 sepalis opposita, in (3 octo, quorum alterna petalis opposita. An- 

 therae subrotundo-ovatae , flavae. Styli puberuli, revoluti , in a. qua- 

 tuor, in /3 quatuor, quinque. Capsula oblonga, laevis, calicis de- 

 rhum longitudine, apice octoiida, in j3 octo-decemfida. Semina rufa, 

 reniformi-pyriformia , angulata, tuberculis aspefa, dorso sulcata, facie 

 utraque planiuscula. 

 In campis ct in pascuis collinis Bari^ Villacidro et in montanis Monle nero ; 



Monte Linas. 

 Fl. aprili. (T) 



Obs. Moenchia Cerastii habitum refert : eharacteres ad ealicis divisionum, pe- 

 talorum staminumquc numerum speclantes , tum et ad numerum denlium in 

 quos capsula dehiscit, utrique generi communes sunt, Cerastium enim te- 

 trandrum Sm. a genere Cerastio nullo potest jure divelli : quamobrem Moen- 

 chia a Cerastio petalis intcgris, nec aliis characteribus differret, nisi Cerastii 

 pentandri Linn. exemplo, Cerastia exstcnt pctalis integiis: Cerastium tamen 

 tetrandrum floribus quadri- et quinqueficlis variat, non Moenchia. Cerastium 

 manticum Linn. externa facie seminumquc forma, Moencliiac quaternellae 

 varietatem pracsertim octandram valde aemulatur. 



