352 THE JOTTENAL 01 DOT.1NV 



147. C. iieterophyllum Viviani, Fl. Libycae sp. G7, in app., et 



Fl. Corsicae sp. nov. 17 (1821) — " Foliis glabriusculis, inferioribus 

 ovatis, 8uperioribus lineari-lanceolatis ; calycibus hirsutis, corolUe 

 subasquantibus ; eapsulis rotundis." Type-specimen, from the moun- 

 tains of Corsica, in the Hanbury Botanical Institute at Genoa, with 

 Viviani's small collection. Associating the characters of the descrip- 

 tion with " eapsulis rotundis," I very much doubt whether this is a 

 Cerastium at ail; though it was referred to C. Illyricum by Grrenier 

 and Godron, Fl. de France, i. 270 (1818). There is no reference to 

 it in Briquet's Prodr. fl. Corse, i. (Oct. 1910), who gives no informa- 

 tion about it. 



118. C. Hierontmusii Pax (Hieronymi) in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 

 xviii. 26 (1893). — Subg. Orthodon, sect. Cheileodontia. Perenne. 

 Caules e radice adscendentes plures, steriles abbreviato-rosulati dense 

 glanduloso-hirsuti. Folia crassiuscula approximata, in ramulis fertili- 

 bus o\ r ata, in ramulis sterilibus lanceolato-oblonga, omnia plusminus 

 glandulosa, dense ciliata. Flores solitarii vel pauci, pedicellis calycem 

 sequantibus. Bracteae scarioso-marginatae. Calyx aperte campanu- 

 latus ; sepala oblonga acuta vel acuminata scarioso marginata, glan- 

 duloso-pubescentia. Petala calycem bis terve superantia spathulato- 

 oblonga biloba, lobis et sinu obtusis. Capsula recta, calycem sequans 

 vel vix superans. Semina angulata, testa vesiculato-inllata nueello 

 multum amplior. 



Hah. Argentina ; Campo Grande, prov. Catamarca. 



Of the habit of 0. montioides, and nearest to 0. mucronatum. 



149. C. HiRSUTUM Muhlenb. Cat. Plant. Amer. sept. 48 (1813) ; 

 = C. glomeratum Thuill. (1799). Founded on " C. hirsutum rnajus 

 flore parvo" Dillen. Cat. Plant. Gissam nasc. 48 (1719). Recorded 

 from the states of New York, Delaware, and N. Carolina. A nomen 

 nudum. 



150. C. hirsutum Tenore, Prodr. Fl. Neap. p. xxvii (1811) ; 

 Cat. Piant. giard. bot. Nap. (1807-1813) ; Cat. Plant, hort. Neap. 45 

 (1814); Fl. Napolitana, iv. 237, t. 141, f. 1 (1830); Syll. Plant, 

 vase. Fl. Neap. 222 (1831) ; = ? G. arvense var. hirsutum Spenner, 

 Fl. Friburg. iii. 850 (1821). Tenore's original description is as 

 follows : — " Caule osespitoso herbaceo, pilis glandulosis patentibus 

 obsito ; foliis ovato-oblongis vel ellipticis utrinque acutis, obscure 

 virentibus undique hirtis ; floribus paniculatis, corollis calyce duplo 

 longioribus, petalis profunde bifidis ; eapsulis fertilibus calycibus 

 duplo longioribus." Tenore says that the leaves are quite different 

 from those of C. arvense and are more acute, the calyx more scarious, 

 and the petals more deeply bifid. He gives the localities as the higher 

 parts of the Apennines of Abruzzo, as at S. Angelo di Castellamare, 

 and at Mongiana in the south of Calabria. Gussone records the 

 plant from Busambara, in Sicily — Fl. Siculse syn. i. 510 (1842). 

 Tanfani, in Pari. Fl. Italiana, ix. 500 (1892), simply notes it as 

 "forma meridionalis." Seringe, in Cand. Prodr. i. 421, includes it 

 among the species non satis notce, with the following description : — 

 " Diffusum hirsuto-viscosum, caulibus repentibus, foliis oblongis basi 

 attenuatis hirsutus canescentibus, floribus paniculatis, corollis calyce 

 duplo longioribus, eapsulis oblongis subincurvis." It may. however, 



