DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



C. foliis ovatis fiibtomentofis, ramis^.^*4*uniflons 

 capfulis globofis. Sp. pi. 629. (Haller. Stffp. 

 Hchet. n. 887. Marten. Spilzherg. t.G.fg.d.) 



Woolly Moufe ear Chickweed. /Inglis. ^ 



Upon rhe rocks on the fummits of the highland 

 mountains, as upon Ben-Lomond, and the moun- 

 tains about 67^;ztc, &c. %. VI. VII. . 



The roots are white, tough and woody, throwing 

 out numerous reclining branches, which after- ■ 

 wards grow ere6l to the height of about three 

 inches, bearing one, or at molt two Rowers : the 

 leaves are oval, croudcd together in the young 

 branches, and all extremely woolly. If tw^o 

 flowers grow upon the fame llalk, the peduncle 

 of one is divaricated, or grows fodiftant from the 

 other as to form with it an angle almoft equal 

 to a right angle. The calyx is woolly, the pe- 

 tals larger than the calyx, the capfule round at : 

 iirft, but afterwards lengthen'd out into a curv'd ' 

 horn. Hallerh defcription of this plant agrees 

 precifely with ours ; and Marten\ figure above 1 

 quoted, tho' a bad one, refembles it j but nei- j 

 defcriptions nor figures of the C. alpinum corref- 1 

 pond as they ought, that being either fmooth 

 or only a little hairy, aod producing fix or eight 

 flowers upon a ftalk. We therefore conclude 

 ours to be moil reducible to the C. latifolium Li/i. 



aquaticumG CERASTIUM foliis cordatis feflllibus, floribus^' 



folitariis, 



