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rowed towards the base, where they are ciliate, otherwise glabrous, co- 

 riaceous, flat, spreading, !' - 2i' long, 3" wide ; floral ones reduced to 

 subulate bracts. Flowers numerous, in a naked and pedunculate corymb- 

 like cyme. Pedicels 2" -3" long. Calyx 4" long, glabrous, tubular 

 campanulate, in fruit becoming ovpicl, five-toothed. Petals white, 

 nearly twice the length of the calyx, the cuneate blade nearly entire. 

 Stipe very short. Capsule ovoid, not exsertcd. Seeds rather strongly 

 muricate. 



Mountains of Kauai. Maul. 



2. CERASTIUM Linn. 



Sepals 5, rarely 4. Petals as many, 2-lobed or cleft, rarely entire. 

 Stamens twice as many, or fewer. Styles equal in number to the se- 

 pals, and opposite them. Pod 1-celled, usually elongated, membra- 

 naccous, opening at the apex by twice as many teeth as there are 

 styles, many-seeded. Seeds rough. Flowers white, in terminal cymes. 



A large genus, spread nearly all over tlie globe. 



1. C. VISCOSUM Linn. Stems clammy-hairy, spreading (6' -15' 

 long) ; leaves oblong, quite green ; upper bracts scarious-margined ; 

 flowers at first clustered; pedicels longer than the obtuse sepals, the 

 earlier ones in fruit much longer. 



Becoming introduced on Maul. Common In the North Temperate zone. 



3. SCHIEDEA Ch. & Schl. 



Calyx five-parted, persistent. Corolla none. The petal-like stami- 

 nodia 5, hyaline, opposite the sepals. Fertile stamens 10, insei'ted on 

 the base of the calyx, the five opposite the sepals adhering to the bases 

 of the staminodia, and longer than the five alternate ones. Styles fili- 

 form, 3 or rarely 4-5-7. Ovary 1-celled ; the numerous ovules affixed to 

 the central columclla. Capsule opening by as many valves as there are 

 styles. Seeds many, estrophiolate. Embryo annular, surrounding the 

 farinaceous albumen. Under shrubs or perennial herbs. Leaves oppo- 

 site, without stipules. Cymes contracted-thyrsoid to diffusely-pan- 

 iculate, or rarely a few-flowered cyme. 



Genus peculiar to the Hawaiian Islands. 



EUSCIIIEDEA. Filaments capillary. Styles 3, or rarely 4-5, stig- 

 matose on the inner face. Flowers small, in a close 

 thyrsus, or diffusely paniculate. 



Panicle very loose : sepals acuminate: leaves 1 -nerved. 

 Staminodia bifid at the apex: filaments exserted. 



Capsule longer than the calyx: seeds few, tuberculate- 



roughcued, . . \. S. Nultallii. 



Capsule not exceeding the calyx: seeds numerous, smooth, 2. S.diffusa. 



