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Herbs, erect with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals Ununited. 



blade, forming with other petal scales a crown over 

 which the anthers project, stamens 10, styles 5, 

 twisted, silvery ; capsule ovoid, teeth 5, simple or 

 bifid, stalk short, velvety, seeds many, minute, very 

 dark, kidney shape, granulate. 



very like the last species, but smaller, calyx 

 more rounded and shorter, petals purple and limb 

 shorter and less divided. 



Lychnis nutans, 



Caryophyllace^;. 

 F. B. I. i. 225. 

 Himalaya, 9-12,000 ft. 

 Murree, Hattu 

 (Collett). 



Lychnis pilosa, 



Caryophyllace^e. 

 F. B. I. i. 226. 

 Himalaya, 9-12,000 ft. 



Cerastium dahuricum, 



Caryophyllace^;. 

 F. B. I. i. 227. 

 Himalaya, 10-11,000 ft. 

 Murree (Stewart). 

 Matiana, Hattu 

 (Collett). 



Cerastium vulgatum, 

 Mouse-ear chickweed, 



Caryophyllace^e. 

 F. B. I. i. 228. 

 The Plains to 15,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



very like the last species, but covered with long 

 hairs and the seeds with longer projections. 



large, perennial, stems stout, ascending among 

 shrubs to 12 ft. or straggling over grass, smooth ; 

 leaves 1^-2 in., large, oblong, sessile or eared, 

 united, blunt or short pointed, margin projecting ; 

 flowers white, £ in. diam., long stalked without 

 bracts in much forking clusters, sepals 5, unevenly, 

 oblong, short-pointed, shining with thin margins, 

 -g in., ovate-lanceolate; petals 5, 2-lobed, heart- 

 shaped, twice the lengh of the sepals, stalks beard- 

 ed, stamens 10, styles 5 ; capsule straight, twice 

 the length of the calyx, many-nerved, teeth re- 

 curved, seeds flattened, many. 



small, annual, velvety, more or less sticky, a weed 

 of # cultivation, stems many, simple or branched, 

 stout or slender ; leaves -§-1 in., lower broad at the 

 tip narrowing to the stalk, upper oblong or ovate, 

 blunt or short-pointed ; flowers g--g- in. diam., in 

 clusters few or many flowered, open or crowded, 

 or in umbels or heads, sepals 5, lanceolate about 

 I in. long, margins broad, petals 5, rarely none, 





