DECAND. PENTAGYN. I4/> 



Much resemblino; the Inst, but a Iarp;er, coarser raid spreading plant, 

 with longer and narrower leaves and fiowers, shorter than their 

 footstalks in genend, and esps?cially in fruit. Petals bifid at the ex- 

 tremity. 



?). C. scmklecaiulrinn [<,maU Mouse-ecir Chickiveed), hairy vis- 

 cid suberect, leaves oblongo-ovate, flouers somewhat pauicled 

 shorter than their pedicels, stani. 5, petals but slightly notched. 

 Lighlf. p. 2 Ji. E. B. t. 1630. C. pumUum, Curt. Land. 

 ed. 1. 



Hai!. Hills about Arthur's Seat, Dr. Pdrsoiis. Vralls about the King's 

 Park, Edinb., MwMi,^//. P/. May. 0-. 



No author seems to doubt this being a good .sj-^eoies, yet 1 know not 

 v.'hat character of importance can befound. All agree thaltiie number 

 of 5 stam. is not constant: and then, except in the less deeply notch- 

 ed and perhaps rather sliorter petals, and its annual root, I do not 

 see how it is to be distinguished from C. viscosum. 



4. C. tetrandrii.yn [letrondrous Chickiveed), "hairy snbviscid, 

 flowers (juadrifid tetraiidrous, ]jeta!s Int'ul shorter than the cal." 

 (Srn.) E. B. I. 1G() {SoLiina cerasloides). 



Hab. Sandy shores and rocks about the Firth of Forth, Dirlrson. WaU 

 tops, near Edinb., Mr. Jntutt. Angus-.shire coast, G. Don. Isle of 

 May, aljundant, D. Don. Fl. May, June. ©. 



"Stems prostrate, dichotomous, hairy in the ujjper part. Leaven spa- 

 thulate or obovate, recurved. Flowers solitary, on longish footstalks 

 from each division of the stem, which footstalks as the fruit ripens 

 become retlexed. Peffl/s cloven, white, f '(/p.f. witli 8 teetli." Snt. 

 in E. Bat. " Cups, scarcely longer than the cal." Ciirlia'^. 



■v.- •/: Pi-ials longer than ilie calijv. 



5. C. arvejise [Field Ckkkiveed), leaves linear-lanceolate more 

 or less pubescent especiailv at the base, petals twice us long as 

 the cal. Ligkif. p. 241. 7j. B. t.93. 



IIaii. Dry gravelly pastures, but not common. Foot of walls near 



"The three uidividuals, C. sciHulecandrnm, C. puiiiUi<m of Dicks, and. Curt, 

 and C. tctraudrnm, art- all njct with in the vicinity of V;umoutli ; and I find 

 the following observations which were made some years ago by Mr. Turner 

 and mysf.lf upon recent speciiiicns. C . senudt'cnndnim difi'ers from C. pmni- 

 hun alinost solely in the krger size of the petals of the latter, in proportion 

 to its calyx. In the seed-vessel and seeds there is no distinction. C. tetran- 

 druni varies with 5 stam. and as many calycliie leaves ; and when this is the 

 case, there is no means of distinguishing it from C. seriudcc, hut by it.s 

 smaller size, moie upright mode of growth and yellower colour; circum- 

 stances undoubtedly not nuicli to be depended on. b^ir James tSmith's figure 

 in E. B. a."-rees neither with our specimens, nor with Curtis's representation, 

 nor with his own specimens preserved in Mr. Turner's Herbarium. The size 

 of the petals in our plants is intermediate between C. seni'dicundrnm and 

 pnnuhtni, and when it has 5 stam. and petals, it seems formed to unite the 

 three individuals under consideration. 



