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flowers smaller; Eastern Pyrenees. Cfiliforjue, Schleidi.; 

 corolla bell-shaped, plant very slender, with long flower- 

 stalks; high glaciers in the Alps. C. ovatum^ Hoppe; 

 stem caespitose, 6-9 flowered, sepals with a broad white 

 margin, bracts with a broad membranous margin ; dry 

 rocks, frequent. C. alpicolum, Briigg. ; stem densely caes- 

 pitose, 1-3 in. high, 5-10-flowered, stem and leaves 

 glandular-hairy ; rocks at a high elevation. C. trigynum^ 

 Vill. {Stellaria cerastoides, L.); nearly glabrous, petals 

 deeply bifid, styles 3, leaves glabrous, often recurved; 

 moist alpine situations, frequent. 



II. MCENCHIA, Ehrh. 



Flowers small, white; petals entire, shorter than the 

 calyx; stamens 4-10. Small glabrous herbs; not alpine. 



M. erecta, Ehrh. {Cerastium quaternellum, FnzL, C. 

 glaucum, Gren.) ; sepals, petals, styles, and stamens 4 or 

 8 (pctandrumy Gay), flowers on long stalks, branches 

 slender, stiff, whole plant glaucous; sandy places in 

 the lowlands. M. mantica^ Bartl. ; sepals, petals, and 

 styles 5, stamens 10; Southern Switzerland, Carniola, 

 rare. 



12. Stellaria, L. 



Flowers white, in dichotomous cymes; petals 5, bifid, 

 without a corona, clawed; stamens 10; styles 3; capsule 

 splitting into 6 valves. Not alpine. 



The following British species occur : — 5. media^ Vill., 

 Chickweed ; everywhere. 6". Holostea^ L., Larger Stitch- 

 wort; and graminea, L., Smaller Stitchwort; hedges 



and grassy places. ^S. nemorum, L. ; woods. S.palustris, 

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