Page 155. Before CERASTIUM. 



]?I<E]VCHIA, Ehr. Mcench[a. 



Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5, entire or retuse. Stamens 4-8-10. Styles 

 4-5. Ovary co-ovuled. Capsule 8-10-dentate, teeth revolute at margin. 

 Seeds reniform — Annual, glaucous lierbs differing from Cerastium in 

 habit, short capsule, and nearly entire petals. 



M, octandra, J. Gay. .15 to. 3; stem 1-2-5-flowered. Leaves 

 lanceolate-linear, acuminate. Pedicels filiform, much longer than 

 calyx ; bracts herbaceous, narrowly scarious ; flowers 4-merous ; sepals 

 lanceolate, acute, scarious-margined, longer than white petals; capsule 

 oblong, little shorter than calyx — Spring — Beirut, near the river; 

 border of Pines. 



Page 155. After G. Kotscliyi. C. trigyniim, Vill. If .05to.l, 

 tufted; trunks procumbent, rooting; stems glabrous or puberulent. 

 Leaves glabrous, oblong-lanceolate, acutish. Cyme 1-oo-flowered; pe- 

 dicels long, glandular-pubescent, in fruit reflexed ; sepals oblong, ob- 

 tuse, scarious-margined; petals obcordate, about twice as long as calyx; 

 capsule twice as long as calyx, teeth at length spreading — Summer — 

 Top of Jebel Makmel. 



Page 159. After P. tetraphyllum. P. alsinefolium. Biv. 

 .02 to .15, branching from base, procumbent. Leaves somewhat fleshy, 

 in fours or twos, opposite. Cymes dense, flowers 5-androus ; pedicels 

 about as long as calyx ; sepals ovate, mucronate ; petals oblong, nearly 

 entire, half as long as calyx ; style shorter than ovary — Spring — Sands ; 

 Phoenician coast. 



Page 160. After H. hirsuta. H. deii§iflora, Williams. MS. 

 .1 to .15, strigose-pubescent, greyish-canescent. Leaves ovate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, tapering at base, obtuse; stipules triangular. 

 Flowers sessile, in clusters of 3-12, shorter than the leaf; calyx-lobes 

 with a thickened, narrowly hyaline margin, acutish, the outer two 

 ovate, the inner elliptical — Spring — Lebanon. 



Page 162. After P. argeniea, var. scariosissima. P. echinata, 

 Desf. .05 to. 1, pubescent; branches ascending from neck. Leaves 

 ovate-oblong, acute, scabrous, denticulate. Clusters dense, in the axils; 

 bracts lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than flowers ; calyx urn-shaped, 

 lobes spathulate, truncate, aristate — May — Sands; coast to Beit-Meri 

 and Bikfayah. 



Page 170. Before H. hircinum. H, Aiidrosasinum, L. 5 -5 



or more, glabrous ; stems erect. Leaves coriaceous, ovate from a ses- 

 sile, cordate base, .03 to .07 long, obtuse. Cyme corymbose, sheathed 

 at base by upper leaves ; sepals ovate, obtuse, persistent ; capsule larger 

 than a marrowfat pea, berry-like — Summer — Rocky places; Kurd 

 Dagh and Amanus. 



Page 171. After H. hircinum. H. Olynipicuin, L. If .5, 



glabrous, glaucous ; stems decumbent or ascending from a hardened 

 root-stock. Leaves sessile, lenticular, .01 to .02 long, prominently pel- 

 lucid-dotted. Cyme terminal, 1-5-flowered; calyx less than half as 

 long as corolla, growing in fruit, lobes 7iot Uaclc-dotted, the outer ovate, 

 cuspidate, the others ovate-oblong, acute; flowers .04 broad — Sum- 

 mer — Gaiour Dagh (Amanus). 



