CAKYOl'HYl.LE/K. 55 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Stem herbaceous, slender, filiform, one to several feet in 

 length, dichotomously branched, procumbent, pubescent with 

 dense curled short hairs. Leaves opposite, broad lanceolate, 

 attenuated at the base (so as to render the leaf subsessile,) 

 mucronate, entire, minutely puberulous. Peduncle axillary, 

 solitary, l-flo\vered, longer than the leaf, filiform, puberulous. 

 Sepals green, membranaceo-margined, lanceolate, externally to 

 the glass puberulous. Petals 5, of the same length as, but 

 somewhat broader, than the sepals, oblong. Stamens 10, length 

 of the petals, hypogynous : anthers globose, white. Ovary 

 spherical : styles 8, spreading : stigmata puberulo-papillose. 

 Capsule 1- celled, 6-valved at the apex : seeds numerous, com- 

 pressed. 



This is a very common plant in the above localities, and is to 

 be found on every bank. It is remarkable that it should have 

 hitherto escaped notice in this Island. It appears, if I may 

 judge from specimens in Sir William Hooker's Herbarium, to 

 be also a native of North America, having been noticed by 

 Elliot, in his Flora of South Carolina and Georgia, and collected 

 by Drumrnond in the neighbourhood of New Orleans. It is 

 singular that I should have given ten years ago the same spe- 

 cific designation, which I now find it bears in the work of Mr 

 Elliot. 



VI. Cerastium. Mouse-eared Ckickweed. 



Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, bifid. Stamens 10. 

 Styles 5. Capsule 1 -celled, cylindrical or globose, 

 dehiscent at the apex with 10 teeth. 



Name, x^ot,; a horn, from the capsules of many of the species 

 being long and curved. 



1. Cerastium spathulatum. Spathulate-leaved Chick- 

 weed. 



Stem subsimple slightly villous, leaves hairy, the 

 lower ones obovato-spathulate petiolate, those of the 

 stem subovate, flowers glomerate. 



Bertero, De Cand. Prod. I. 416. 



HAB. Neighbourhood of St Catherine's Peak. 



FL. Warmer months. 



Root fibrous. Stem herbaceous, occasionally simple, at 

 other times branched, somewhat decumbent at the base, slightly 

 compressed, purpurascent. Leaves opposite : lower ones 

 spathulate, rounded and retuse at the apex, entire, hairy ; the 

 upper ones sessile, ovate, blunt rounded at the base, hairy, par- 



