(6) F.-N. WILLIAMS. NOTK SYiNOPTIQUE SUR LE GENRE MOENCHIA. (507 



superiora ovali-lnnceolaLa iiUernodiis breviora. Flores tetrameri, 3-7, 

 longe pedunculati cyinam laxam formantes, pedunculis sub anlhesi cer- 

 nuis friicliferis ereclis suftuUi. l^ractese ovali-lanceolatse margine laie 

 scarioScG. Calyx sub anlhesi campa n nia 1 us ; sepala 8 mm., ovato-lanceo- 

 lala acuta patentia obsolete Irinervia, margine laie scariosa. Pelala 

 obovato-oblonga intégra calyce 'A breviora. Stamina 8 inaequalia, fila- 

 mentis 4 brevioribus 4 duplo longioribus ; antheras ellipticye luteolëe. 

 Slyli 4 recurvali. Capsula venlricoso-cylindrica inclusa, apice 8 

 dentibus dehiscens. Semina fusca orbiculari-reniformia subtiliter rugu- 

 losa. 



A précédente diversa bracteis margine laie scariosis, sepalis obsolete 

 trinerviis, pelalis longioribus, staminibus 8, et seminibus band Isevibns ; 

 eliam caulibus elalioribus plures flores gerentibus. 



Syn. : Arenaria calycina Poir. Voy. Barb. II, p. 167 (1789) ^ 



Sagina octandra Mert. et Koch Deutschi. Fl. I^ p. 864 (1823). 



Cerdstmm tenue Viviani, FI. Cors. sp. nov,, p. 7 (1824). 



Mœnchia qtiaternella var. octandra Moris, FI. Sarcloa I, p. 269 



(1837). 

 Malachium octandriim Gren. in Acad. Se. Besançon Séanc, p. 186 



(1839). 

 Cerastium glaucum var. octandrum Gren. (Monogr. Cerast.) in Mém. 



Soc. emul. Doubs I, p. 48 (1841). 

 Mœnchia ßiformis Bisso, FI. Nice, p. 71 (1844)^. 

 Cerastium manticum var. tenue Ces. Pass. et Gib. Comp. fl. Ital, 



p. 782. 

 Cerastium manticum var. octandrum Arcang. Comp. fl. liai., éd. 1, 



p. 96 (1882). 

 Cerastium quaternellum var. octandrum Bony et F'ouc. FI. de France 



III, p. 225 (1896). 

 Mœnchia erecta var. octandra Giirke in Rieht. PI. Europ. II, p. 238 



(1899). 



Iconogr. : Willk. le. Descr. Plant, nov. rar. Hisp. I, p. 86, t. o7 (1853). 



The first account of the plant is that given by Mertens and Koch in 

 1823, and is as foUows : — « Da die Sagina erecta des südlichen Frank- 



' In a note attached to a N. African spécimen in Herb. Kew., Gay says that 

 he bas examined the original type-speci mens so-named in Desfontaines' Iier- 

 barium, and he finds them to be identical with his aulhentic spécimens of Mœn- 

 chia octandra. 



' The var. subulata whieh Bisso also describes hère := Alsine rostrata. 



