THE PHYTOLOGIST. 



No. XXII. 



MARCH, MDCCCXLIII. 



Price Is. 



Art. CXXII. — Notice of a new British Cerastium. 

 By Thomas Edmonston, jun., Esq.* 



Cerastium latifolium, Linn. 



Having for some yeai's entertained the opinion that the plant above 

 figured, although generally referred to Cerastium latifolium, was dis- 

 tinct fi'om the plant called by that name in Britain, I have paid con- 

 siderable attention to our alpine Cerastia, and am disposed to conclude 

 that my plant is truly distinct from the C. latifolium of Smith and 

 Hooker. 1 am happy to be able to say that my valued and eminent 



* Communicated by Charles C. Babington, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. 



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