416 DECANDRIA. TRTGYNIA. Cherleria. 



5 fibres : petals spear-shaped, white : capsule oblong, a little 

 longer than the calyx. Linn.— Near 4- inches high. Root-leaves 

 in bundles, very slender but strongly ribbed, pointed. Panicle 

 few-flowered. Petals white, rather longer than the leaves of the 



calyx. 



Specimen from Mr 

 berris. 



p. 



laricifo'lia, A. Leaves bristle-shaped: stem rather bare above: calyx 



somewhat hairy. 



Jacq. amtr. 272-Magn. hort. 2~-JF. B. iii. 360. 2. 



Caps, oblong, streaked, cylindrical, downy. Linn. 



Larch-leaved Sandwort. Mountains in the North. {On 

 Snowdon. Mr. Griffith.] P. July, Aug. 



The last 4 species are not easily to be distinguished by the 

 specific characters. The leaves in all are very slender, the stems 

 more or less hirsute, as are also the calyxes ; the caly£ leaves 

 are ribbed, and they all bear their flowers in panicles. The best 

 distinctions may perhaps be taken from the consideration of the 

 calyx leaves and petals ; thus : 



In the Aren. tenuifolia y the calyx leaves are spear-awl-shaped, 



much longer than the petals. 



laricifolia, the calyx leaves are strap-spear-shaped, 



and shorter than the petals. 



• *verna y the calyx leaves are spear-shaped, and shorter 



than the petals. 



juniperinaj the calyx leaves are egg-shaped, scarce- 

 ly hirsute, and nearly as long as the 

 petals. 





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CHERLE'RIA. Cal 5 leaves: nectaries 5, cloven, 



resembling petals : anthers, every other bar- 



sedoi'des. C 



ren : caps. 1 -celled, 3-valved, 3-seeded. 





Dkks. h. s.-Jacq. austr. 28i-Hall. opusc. 1. 3. at p. 300- 

 Hall. 2 1 . 1 . at ii. /. 1 \\-Peu. <voy. 33-Plui. 42. 8-Pari. 

 73/. 11-//. ox. xii. 6'. 14. 



Leaves opposite, strap-shaped, rough at the edge, connected 

 at the base into a kind of sheath. When the leaves fall off, the 

 sheath and keel of the leaves remain, cloathing the stem, whence 

 it has an affinity to the Galliflower tribe. Linn. 



Moss-like Cyphel. Highland Mountains, near their summits* 



[On Ben Teskerny and Craig Calleach; but irv immense quan- 



