CARYOPHYLLACEiE 7 



CERASTIUM. 



Vol. I p. 32 and II t. 26, for Ccrastium vulgatum L, 

 var glomerata Thuillier read C. glomarata ThuilL 



STELLARIA. 



See Vol. I p. 33. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



r Plants with tomentum of stellate hairs . . .8. saxatilis 

 I Hairs simple .............. b 



r Flowers in long-peduncled cymose panicles ; seed one only 



b < S. paniculata. 



(Flowers axillary; seeds many in the capsule, Vol. I p. 33. 



S. media. 



Stellaria paniculata Edgew. ; F.B.L i 229, XI 2. Stem 

 2 feet. Leaves I to 2 inches, variable in shape. Flowers 

 small. Young ovary three-celled, but when ripe with 

 only one wrinkled seed. 



Nilgiris : 6,000 to 8,000 feet. 

 Gejt. Dist. Temperate Himalayas, Kashmir and Khasia. 



Stellaria saxatilis Ham. ; F.B.L i 232, XI 14. Stem 

 2 to 3 feet, decumbent below, densely tomentose above. 

 Flowers in umbel-like cymes, with very slender pedicels 

 of I to I J^ inches. Petals ^ inch, two-partite. Capsule 

 5-valved. Seeds tubercled. 



Nilgiris, as a weed. 



Gen. Dist. Temperate Eastern and Central Himalayas, Khasia and 

 across to Java, Siberia and Japan. 



S AGIN A. F.B.1. 18 XIV. 



Herbs with very narrow leaves connate at the base, 

 but without stipules. Sepals free. Petals not notched, 

 usually minute. Stamens 4 or 5, or 8 to 10. Styles 4 or 

 5 opposite the sepals, and also to the valves of the 

 capsule. 



Species about 10, in temperate regions. 



