CEITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM 351 



the Alps of Croatia, e.g. near Viszocsicza, Badany, and Szegestan. 

 Recorded from Styria, in Austria, eastward to Trans-Caucasia. 



As supplementary to the ordinary description, the following note, 

 ex Gay MSS. attached to a specimen in Herb. Kew., is from his obser- 

 vations on the living plant (dated 28 May, 1843): — •" Pubes intri- 

 cata, crispata. Radix perennis. Bractea? ex toto scariosas, omnes, 

 etiam inferiores. Sepala ovato-oblonga obtusa margine late scariosa. 

 Petala calyce triplo longiora, limbo bilobo, ungue glaberrimo. Fila- 

 menta 10, omnia glaberrima, 5 petalis opposita, cseteris breviora, 

 5 longiora basi glanduloso-incrassata, glandula fiava. Ovarium 

 10-fariam infra medium pilosum." 



The plant occurs under five forms in Yugo-Slavia. These have 

 been mostly differentiated and described by C. Correns in Oesterr. 

 Bot. Zeitschr. 1909, 180, 181, and by S. Borza in Bot. Kozlem. 1913, 

 74. They are as follows : — 



f. 1. typicum nobis. — Caules et folia incano-tomentosa. Peta- 

 lorum ungues glaberrimi. Pilamenta omnia glaberrima. Ovarium 

 infra medium pilosum. 



f. 2. leiostemon. — Ut f. 1, sed filamenta episepala pilosa. 



Hah. Prov. of Croatia ; Velnac, above Kailopago, on Mt. Velebit, 

 by the coast {Kiimmerle). Mt. Jastrebica in Montenegro — now 

 part of Serbia (Adamovic). 



f. 3. lasiostemon. — Ut f. 1, sed filamenta omnia pilosa. 



Hab. Prov. of Dahnatia : Mt. Veliki Stirovnik, at 1200 metres. 



f. 4. leiogynum. — Ut f. 1, sed ovarium etiam glabrum. 



f. 5. glabrescens. — Planta oninino glabrescens. 



Hab. Prov. of Bosnia : on the Yran Planina, near the Herzegovina 

 border, at 2000 metres. 



There are also good examples of f. 2 in Herb. Kew — from Mostar 

 in Herzegovina (Callier, PI. Herceg. exs. 1895, n. 32), and Mt. Ve- 

 liki in Montenegro {Baldacci, 1890), in both places at 1200 metres. 



C. suffruticosum Linn, has been queried under this species. There 

 is no specimen in Herb. Linn. ; and it is not possible to identify it. 



145. C. Gkenieri F. W. Schultz, Fl. Gall, et Germ. exs. Cent. 1, 

 no. 16, et Introd. p. 6 (1836) ; et in Arch. Fl. Fr. et Allem. 24 (1842), 

 etiam cf. in Jahrb. Pharmac. 1S42 ; et (pro var.) in Flora, xxiii. 

 abt. 1, 123 (1840) ; =0. pumilum var. y viscarium Rchb. 1c. fl. Germ. 

 Helv. vi. 37, t. 228, f. 4969 b (1842), sed in ed. alt. Germ. iii. 107. 



This commoner form of G. pumilum is better represented in 

 F. W. Schultz, Herb. Normale, n. 27. — Lsete viride. Bractea; superi- 

 ores margine anguste scariosse. Pedicelli filiformes. Flores 3-4 mm. 

 long. Caulis primarius 6 -15 ctim. — Exactly agrees with Reichen- 

 bach's figure. 



146. C. Hausskneciitii Boiss. in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1876, 

 410 ; = 0. macrocarpum Boiss. et Haussk. (1867). 



There was no need for Boissier to have changed the earlier name 

 of this species on account of the alleged " 0. macrocarpum Schur " 

 (1859). This latter is merely the quite needless raising to specific 

 rank of " C. vulgatum var. macrocarpum Fenzl " (1842), which is 

 C. triviale var. alpinum Mert. & Koch (1831). 



