74 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM, 



By Fredeeic N. Williams, F.L.S. 



(Continued from Journ. Bot. lix. 1921, 353.) 

 151'. C. iiOLosTEA Honiem. Hort. Bot. Haf niensis, 484^ (1813): — 

 " CciLile adscenJeute foliisque lanceolatis niollissime pubeseentibas, 

 pedunculis retlexis." Sent to Honiemann by Fischer in 1812 from 

 the GoioHiki Grarden in Bussia. But it is not mentioned in Fischer's 

 "Cat. Jard. Comte A. de liazoumoiSsky a Grorenki " (1812). The 

 question of how this account of a Bussian nobleman's garden was 

 printed with a French title and introduction while the French army was 

 marching on Moscow I cannot solve. Fischer afterwards sent speci- 

 mens to herb. Cand. labelled " C. Jiolosteum,''' and these Seringe 

 described in the Prodromus, i. 415, under the name of " C. daimricuvi 

 var. holosteumy Reduced to typical C. nemorale Bieb. by Fenzl in 

 Ledeb. Fl. Bossica, i. 401. Seringe's description is somewhat dif- 

 ferent : — " Foliis lanceolato-linearibus amplexicaulibus subciliatis, 

 caule pedunculisque subpilosis." As C. liolosfea is not a var. of 

 C. davuricum, it is actually an earlier name than G. nemorale, but the 

 description is too vague and too scrappy. 



155. C. KOLOSTEiFORME Schur, Enum. pi. Transsilv. 119 (1860). — 

 This is a long and carefully drawn-up description of G. semldacaii- 

 dram.io which it has been referred by Simonkai, Enum. fl. Transsilv. 

 132 (1866), after examination of authentic specimens in herb. Lem- 

 berg. Found in grassy places near Nagy-Szeben {Germ. Hermann- 

 stadt), in Bumania, prov. of Transylvania (till recently in Hungarian 

 territory). Stated b}^ Schur to have the habit of Kolosteum umbel- 

 la turn. 



156. C. iiOLOSTEOiDES Fries, Novit. fl. Suecic. 32 (fasc. 3, 1816- 

 17); et Fl. Hallandica (1817) ; = 6''. triviale vsly. Jwlosteoides lichh. 

 Fl. Germ, excurs. 796 (1832). — 1-3 dcm. Caules secus intermedia 

 alterna bifariam unilineato-pubescentes (ut of. Stellar ia media), 

 ceterum glabri, laxe dispositi, magis autem robusti quam in typo. 

 Folia oblonga nitida ciliata. Bractea? 4 mm., ciliata3. Bedicelli 

 centrales 5-9 mm., pilosi. Flores majores. Calyx 5 mm. ; sepala 

 glabrescentia, vel pilis paucis longis instructa. Petala longiora quam 

 in typo. Capsula 1 ctim. 



The above description is based on two sheets of specimens in Herb. 

 Kew. : — (1) authentic examples of Fries, Herb. norm. Scand. fasc. xv. 

 n. 42, from Carlskrona in the amt of Blekinge, and (2) examples 

 from Tyneside, near Newcastle (J. Storey, 1846, no. 193 h). 



Rah. Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, 

 Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, and Bumania. — When the plant is entirely 

 glabrous, it is the form cjlalratum Neilr. Fl. Nied. Oesterr. 798 

 (1859). It is described by Beichenbach as '' glabriusculum, humilius 

 plerumque, in pascuis siccioribus." It is well figured in his Ic. Plant, 

 crit. ii. 318, 319. 



Distrlb. ill Britain. Hampshire: Isle of Wight, top of Shanklin 

 down, and on Beiubridge down, neai* the fort, with G. pit mi lit m 



