114 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



tipped hairs on the calyx and pedicels, though variahle in quantity, 

 are always sufficiently evident to attract notice. 



A. viscosa, Schreb. (Subulina viscosa, Reich. 1. c. Tab. CCIV. 

 'Fig. 4917), is certainly distinct (at least as a sub-species), having 

 the capsule only about half the length of the sepals. It is also a 

 shorter plant, stouter in proportion to its size, and more distinctly 

 corymbosely branched. This plant does not appear to occur in 

 Britain ; that from Thetford, which has been referred to it, is 

 the var. hybrida of A. tenuifolia. 



Fine-leaved Sandwort. 



French, Alsine d, FtuiUes Menues. German, Scltmalhldttrige Alsine. 



Section IV.— MINU ARTIE J3. Fenzl. 



Fructiferous calyx indurated at the base. Sepals with stripes 

 of a different colour from the ground. Petals oblanceolate. Leaves 

 linear-subulate, 3- to 7-nerved. Root annual or perennial. 



SPECIES v.— ALSINE FASTIGIATA. Bah. 

 Plate CCXLIII. {his). 



Minuartia fastigiata, Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Caryoph. Tab. CCVI. 



Fig. 4919. 

 Arenaria fastigiata, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1744. Hooh. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. G7. 

 A. fasciculata, Jacq. (non Linn.). Sin. 

 Alsine Jacquini, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 125. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. 



Vol. I. p. 250. 



Stem erect, paniculately branclied ; the branches erect. Leaves 

 rather crowded throughout. Flowers numerous, in small fasci- 

 culate cymes terminating the stem and branches. Pedicels shorter 

 than, or barely equalling the sepals and bracts. Sepals unequal 

 in length, lanceolate-subulate, white, with 2 green stripes separated 

 by the white central nerve. Petals not half the length of the 

 sepals. Capsule shorter than the sepals. Seeds lenticular-reniforra, 

 with regular concentric rows of long acute tubercles w^hich might 

 almost be called spines. 



On mountains. Very rare. Said to have been found by 

 Mr. George Don on rocks in the mountains of Clova, Forfarshire, 

 and also in Fifeshire. Dr. Walker Arnott states in the " British 

 Flora," that he possesses specimens from Mr. Drummond, as well 

 as from Mr. G. Don ; so that, though it has been found by no 

 botanist at present living, it would scarcely be proper to omit it 

 from the list of British plants. I have one of Don's specimens; 



