CARYOPllYLLACE.^. 83 



This is smaller in all its parts (1 to 4 inches hit;h), it has the cap- 

 sule shorter (not quite twice as long as the calyx), but appears to be 

 rather a starved state than an actual variety. 



It seems better to adopt the name " glomeratum," as Linnanis 

 himself seems to have confounded his C. vulgatum and viscosura ; 

 and even yet there is no agreement amongst authors respecting the 

 proper ai^plication of the two latter. 



Broad-leaved Mouse-ear Chichweed. 



French, Ceraiste Comnmn. German, Gekuaidtes Uurnkrmtl. 



SPECIES VI.— CERASTIUM TRIVIAL E. Link. 



Plate CCXXII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Caryoph. Tab. CCXXIX. Fig. 4972. 



C. viscosum, "Linn." Svi. Eug. Bot. No. 790. 



C. vulgatum, "Linn." Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. p. 125. 



C. vulgare, Hartm. Scand. Fl. ed. i. p. 182. 



Eoot perennial or annual, in the former case producing more 

 or less elongated decumbent barren shoots. Flowering stems 

 branched at the base, where they are decumbent, then erect, or 

 ascending. Leaves of the barren shoots oblanceolate or narrowly- 

 obovate ; leaves of the flowering stem strap-shaped, oblong, or 

 elliptical. First pair of bracts much smaller than the stem-leaves, 

 ovate - lanceolate, entirely herbaceous ; secondary bi-acts much 

 shorter than the flowering pedicels, with narrow membranous mar- 

 gins, or sometimes entirely herbaceous. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, with rather broad membranous margins ; the herbaceous 

 part with numerous articulated hairs not terminating in glands, 

 and not exceeding the point of the sepals ; rarely glabrous. Petals 

 a little longer than the sepals, oblong-oblanceolate, bifid, very 

 rarely twice as long as the sepals. Fruit-stalks longer than the 

 calyx, generally reflexed after flowering, afterwards erect. Capsule 

 cylindrical-ovoid, exserted, about twice as long as the sepals, 

 curved upwards, inclined so as to form an obtuse angle with the 

 pedicel. Plant with articulated hau's not tipped with glands, 

 rarely sub-glabrous. 



Var. a, (jeniiina. 



Perennial. Flowers decandrous. Stem with simple bairs all 

 round. Calyx pubescent. 



