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DIVISION I BRITISH SPECIES, 
1. Dwarf early Ceraftium. 
Ceraftium pumilum pracox: 
The root is a tuft of flender fibres: 
The leaves that rife immediately from it are 
broad, fhort and obtufely pointed: they grow in 
a little tuft, and are of a pale green. 
In the centre of this tuft rifes a fingle ftalk: 
this is round, hairy, upright, rarely at. all 
branched, and three inches high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs at confiderable dif- 
tances: they are fmall, hairy, and fhort: they 
have no footftalks, but furround the ftalk at the 
bafe. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, 
and are {mall, white, and compofed each of five 
petals nipp’d at the ends: they rarely open. 
The feed-veffel is fmall, long, and clofe at the 
end. : 
The feeds are numerous and minute. 
It is common on walls and dry banks; and 
flowers in April. When it has ftood fome weeks, 
it fometimes is a little branched ; but it is alto- 
gether diftin&t from the larger kinds. The 
flowers ftand on fhorter footftalks, and the plant 
never is at all clammy, as the others ufually are, 
The leaves alfo are pointed a little more than in 
them. < ‘ . 
C. Bauhine calls it Aline hirfuta minor. Dille- 
nius, Ceraftium birfutum minus parvo flore. 
2. Common broad-leaved Ceraftium. 
Ceraftium latifolium vulgare. 
The root is compofed of flendgy fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, hairy, and of 
a pale green: they are not much branched, and 
they are generally fomiewhat clammy to the touch. 
The leaves ftand in pairs at {mall diftances; 
and they are broad, fhort, hairy, and of a dufky 
green. 
The flowers are fmall and white: they ftand 
on fhort pedicles rifing from the bofoms of the 
leaves, and they rarely open well. 
The feed-veffel is long, crooked, and dentated 
at the end: the feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is frequent in paftures, and flowers in fpring. 
YVhe whole plant is frequently covered with a 
clammy moifture. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Aine hirfuta altera vifcofa. 
Ray, Alfine birfuta myofotis latifolia precocior. 
Merret, Alfine myofotis humilior et rotundiore folio. 
3. Narrow-leaved Ceraftium. 
Ceraftium foliis anguftioribus. 
The root is compofed of fmall, white fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, hairy, of a 
pale green, and five or fix inches high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs; and they are oblong, 
narrow, of a pale green, hairy, and often clam- 
my, as is alfo the ftalk. 
The flowers ftand on pedicles rifing in the bo- 
foms of the upper leaves; and they are larger 
than in the others and white. : 
_ The feed-veffel is long; flender, and light! 
dentated at the end, 5 é oa 
The feeds are humerous, minute, and brown. 
It is common in our paftures, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Mize hirfuta magno flore. 
Merret, Alfine myfotis procerior et longiore folio. 
Sometimes this fpecies is altogether fmooth, 
ftalks and leaves, 
4. Creeping Ceraflium with great flowers, 
Ceraftium repens floribus amplis. 
The root is flender, and runs under the fur 
face. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, hairy, of a 
pale green, and five or fix inches in length : 
part of them ftand ereét, and part are procum- 
bent. 
The leaves grow in pairs, without footftalks, 
and are placed at confiderable diftances: they 
are fhort, obtufe, and of a pale green, mode- 
rately hairy, and of a firm fubftance. 
The flowers grow on long, flender footftalks, 
and are very large, and of a fnow white: they 
are compofed each of five petals, dented at the 
ends. 
The feed-vefiél is long, thick, and crooked, 
and dented at the top; and the feeds are fmall, 
numerous, and angular. 
It is a native of our northern counties, and 
flowers in Augutt. 
C. Bauhine calls it Caryophyllus holofteus alpinus’ 
latifolius. It is a very fingular and beautiful 
plant. . 
§ Woolly Ceraftium. 
Ceraftium tomentofum. 
The root is fibrous and brown. 
The ftalks are numerous and weak: they are 
of a whitith colour, and fome of them rife up- 
right to the height of eight inches, but moft lie 
upon the ground. 
The leaves are broad, fhort, and obtufe: they 
are placed in pairs, and they are of a woolly foft- 
nefs to the touch, and of a white colour. 
The flowers are large and white: they ftand 
on fhort. pedicles rifing from the tops of the 
ftalks, and from the bofoms of the upper leaves.. 
The feed-veffel is long, and confiderably bent: 
the edge deeply divided, and the colour a pale 
brown. 
The feeds are fmall and brownith. 
It is found on the Welch mountains, and 
fearce any where elfe in Britain. It fowers in 
Auguft. 
C, Bauhine calls it Caryophyllus bolofteus tomen- 
tofus latifolius. 
The flowers is larger than in the former 
{pecies. 
We know nothing of the virtues of any of 
thefe plants, nor of the foreign fpecies following. 
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