BOTANY. 13 



Pers. syn. 1. p. 521. Smith brit. 2. p. 500. Engl, bot. 472. Hooker scot. p. 144 et 280 

 Soland. inPhipps voy. p. 202. Br. in Ross'' voy. ed. 2. vol. 2. ;?. 192. Spitz, pi. in Scores- 

 by's arct. reg. 1. append, p. 75. Hooker in Scoresby greenl. p. 413. Cerastium latifoliuni . 

 Light/, scot. I. p. 242. 1. 10. 



Ofo. SjKt-ies polymorpha cujus tres varietatcs scquentcs in Insula Melville observate. 



a. folia oblonga rariusve breve ovalia, pedunculi dicbotomi raritis uniflori, pili pedun- 

 culorum plerique glanduloso-capitati. capsula' oblonga- calyce duplo fere longiores. 



jS. folia late ovata, pedunculi dicbotomi pilis plerisque acutis, calycis i'oliola interiora 

 glabriuscula. 



y. hirsula. folia clliptica v. lanccolata. pcdmiculi divisi ft solitarii, pilis plerisquc acutis, 

 capsula' calyce paulo longiores. 



18. Stbllaeia Edwobdsii, foliis ovato-lancfohuis imegerrimis encrviis nitidis, pedun- 

 culis temiinalibus unifloris tnlidisw. pctalia bipartitis calvce immerse irinervi longioribus, 

 antlicris pnrpureis. 



Obs. Duplex varietas. 



In a. (cujiis exemplaria ph.ri.na in Mdvillc Island, el aliqua anno 1792, ad Chester- 

 field Inlet lecta vidi) folia ovala acta v. ovato-lanccolala, pedunculi soliu.rii v. trifidi, 

 lateral.b.is sa'p.ssime millions altero nunc abortifiilc, (bin. solitarii chiacleati, dun. divisi 

 bihraclcati, braelcis semifoliaceia nuivviMi- membranacco ciliato, prdiccllis lalcralihus (writer 

 bibracteatis. Caulis et folia sa>pius glahcrriii.a, caulis nunc villosiuscuhis et folia basi ciliata 

 villis tenuibus laxis. 



/3. (eujus exemplaria dw>, quorum alterum niullicaiile.) folia <>\ ■alo-iaiiivolata apiec sul)atte- 

 nuata nitidissiina, pedunculi sa'pius uniflori. Caules et folia glaberrhua. 



In utraque fructus desiderutur, qui f\stal in S. Kdwardsii. Rirhnrdsoii in Fnriik/in's journ. 

 p. 738. In bar vero, <pia' forsan distincla speca s, at.lhci :c ochrolc nca' tuiniina' ft pollute desti- 

 tute, sty li clongati et stigmata manuestiora. caulcs el folia glaberrima, capsula crccta calyce 

 fere duplo longior semiscxvalvis, semina ivniformia lavia f.tsca. 



De Stelkria nitida Hooker in Scoresby greenl. p. 411. cui secundum auctorem folia lan- 

 eeolata siceilate subtrinervia, fl-ares subpaiiiculali et antliene Have, ineertus sum. 



19. Auenauia (UAljHlVAl.vis, foliis subulatis acutis glaberrimis trincrviis, pedunculis 

 unifloris elongatis pubeMvntibus rah cilius aculisMinis (riucrviis p.-tala flliptica superantibiis 

 capsula quadrivalvi (mine 3 — 5-valvi) ssepius brevioribus. 



Alsine rubella, Wahlenb. Lapp. 128, /. (), forsan haud distincta; sc<l secundum auctorem 

 capsula 3-valvis petala rubella et in icotie subspathulata basi \alde atlenuata. 



Desc. Herba 1-2-uncialis. Radix percimis, descendens. (.'aulis a basi ramosissinms 

 ca'spitem densum efformans, infra vaginis petiolaribn> cmarcidis ner\is<nte folionmi dcuudati? 

 obsitus, supra dense foliatus. Fidia opposita basi connata, subttlata, acuta, mutica, sujmt 

 concaviuscula, subter convexa, trinervia, marginibiis nudis. Pedimrnti ti ■rtninales soJitarii, 



