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acute, partly fringed, strongly 3-ribbed, full as long as the nar- 

 row, deeply divided petals. Anth. red. Tlie capsule seems to 

 be globular. 

 The leaves, though sometimes narrower, are often as broad as re- 

 presented in Engl. Bot. The crowded leaves, short stems, and 

 very numerous long Jlower-stalks, at once distinguish this spe- 

 cies, which appears not to have been observed out of Britain. 



8. S. cerastoides. Alpine Stitchwort. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, bluntish, smooth. Stems with a 

 hairy lateral line, about two-flowered. Flower-stalks 

 downy all over. Calyx with a single downy rib. 



S. cerastoides. Linn. Sp. PI. 604. Fl. Suec.ed.2. 151. Mllld. 



v.2.714. Fl.Br.477. Engl. Bot.v. 13. t. 91 1. Pl.Ic.ex Herb. 



Linn. t. 15. Dicks. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 2. 290. H. Sicc.fasc. 2. 11 . 



With. 421. Hook. Scot. ]36. Fl. Dan. t. 92. Jacq. Coll.v. \. 



254. t. 19? Retz. Obs.fasc. 1. 18. Gunn. Norveg. v. 2. 119. 



t. 6./. 2. Wahlenb. Lapp. 126. 

 Myosotis n. 890. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 390. Davall. 



In the Highlands of Scotland. 



On Ben Nevis. Mr. Dickson. Upon mountains to the north 

 of Invercauld. Mr. J. Mackay. Mountains above Killin. 

 Mr. Borrer. 



Perennial. June. 



Root creeping. Stems diffuse, 3 or 4 inches long, leafy, branched 

 at the bottom, marked with a hairy lateral line, which was first 

 noticed by the excellent delineator of the figures in Engl. Bot. 

 Each stem terminates in 1 or 2, rarely 3, upright white^ower*, 

 whose simple slender stalks are glutinous, and uniformly downy 

 in every direction, one or both of them bearing a pair of small 

 bracteas. Leaves about | an inch long, entire, single-ribbed, 

 recurved, uniformly smooth in the original Linnaean specimens, as 

 well as in every British, Lapland, or Swiss one that I have seen ; 

 so that 1 think there must be some mistake in the Flora Scotica. 

 Calyx-leaves with a hairy keel, the outermost sometimes fur- 

 nished with 2 small lateral ribs. Pet. nearly twice the length 

 of the calyx, cloven scarcely half way down. -Styles almost in- 

 variably 3 ; I have once only seen 4, and Wulfen mentions 5. 

 Caps, tw.ce as long as the calyx, cylindrical, with 6 teeth, 

 though that number is doubtless increased to 8 or 10, when the 

 styles are more than their proper number. Seeds rough. ■Se- 

 veral botanists have confounded this plant with the smooth va- 

 riety of Cerastium alpinum, which is essentially distinct, though 

 Linnceus himself seems, by his herbarium, to have sometimes 

 fallen into the same error. 1 suspect Wulfen has done so ; for 

 though his specimens, sent by Jacquin, are really Stellaria ce- 

 rastoides, his figure is more like Cerastium alpinum, particularly 



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