Plants of the Punjab. 147 
Heres, ERECT, WITH Opposite ExstipULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Holosteum 
umbellatum, 
Cerastium 
dahuricum, 
CARYOPHYLLACER. 
Be Bila 227, 
Himalaya, 
10-11,000 ft. 
Murree (Stewart). 
Matiana, Hattu 
(Collett). 
Cerastium 
vulgatum, 
Mouse-ear 
chickweed, 
CARYOPHYLLACER. 
Bes). 1.228: 
The Plains to 
15,000 ft. 
Cerastium Thomsoni, 
CARYOPHYLLACES. 
fe 8 a PSB 
Himalaya, 
at Kishtwar and 
Lahul, 
10-12,000 ft. 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 
large, perennial, stems stout, ascending among shrubs 
to 12 ft. or straggling over grass, smooth ; leaves 14-2 in., 
large, oblong, sessile or forked, or united, blunt or short- 
pointed, margin projecting; flowers ? in. diam., white, 
long-stalked without bracts in forking clusters, sepals 5, 
oblong, ends rounded or almost pointed, shining with thin 
margins, 2 in., ovate-lanceolate, petals 5, 2-lobed, heart- 
shaped, twice the length of the sepals, stalks bearded, 
stamens 10, styles 5; capsule straight, twice the length 
of the calyx, many-nerved, teeth re-curved, seeds flattened, _ 
many. 
small, annual, velvety, more or less sticky, a weed 
of cultivation, stems many, simple or branched, stout 
or slender ; leaves 3-1 in., lower broad at the tip narrow- 
ing to the stalk, upper oblong or ovate, blunt or short- 
pointed ; flowers 3-4 in. diam., in clusters few -or many- 
flowered, open or crowded, or in umbels or heads, sepals 
5, lanceolate, about + in. long, margins broad, petals 5, 
rarely none, equal to the sepals in length, shortly lobed, 
stamens 10, sometimes 5 or less, styles 5; capsule cylin- 
dric, much longer than the calyx, often curved, like 
a horn (cerastos), whence the name is derived, teeth 
straight, seeds many, flattened. 
small, hairy, very glandular, branched only at the 
base; leaves 3-1}in. long, linear-oblong, almost short- 
pointed, straight; flowers 4-2 in. diam., white, in few- 
flowered nearly umbel-like clusters, bracts with narrow 
thin margins, stalks slender, sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, 
short-pointed, coloured below the thin tips, much smaller 
than the petals, petals 5, broad, capsule cylindric, 
twice the calyx, teeth 10, seeds many, flattened. 
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