118 CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM. 
late scariosa. Petala obovato-cuneata SNF oo eequantia. 
Capsula recta calyce paullum longior. Sem a triangulari-sub- 
Forma elatior (2): 45-60 centim.; caules adscendentes (semina 
in capsula mediocri 
Forma latifolia (3): “Folia ovato- oblonga 387-49 mm. 
42, C, Baucanicum Vandas, Beitr. fl. Bulgar. in Sitzgsber. K. 
Béhm. Gesellsch. Wissensch. 1888, 436; Velen. Fl. Bulgarica, 87 
(1891): = C. eg or a var. Balcianicum Willia ices hie plant 
from the Balkan Mountains can only be co wandered one of the 
many forms of C. flay Ecce aba: perhaps most nearly with 
var. alpinum Boiss. 1 was at first disposed to reduce it to var 
show that they cannot be referred to C. grandiflorum at all, The 
following characters readily distinguish the plant from the normal 
forms of C. grandiflorum :— 
lanta laxe cespitosa, 20-85 em. alta. Caules apice ramosi, 
remotius foliati, inferne pilis pubescentibus sparsim vestiti vel 
glabri, superne pilis densis brevibus glanduliferis pilisque longioribus 
eglandulosis vestiti. Folia Pe ae linearia glabrata vel sparsim 
puberala. Dichasium 3-7-flor ee la lanceolata minus obtusata. 
In stony places a nd among juniper shrubs near the top of 
Mt. ‘Occaaat Planina, above Kostendil i in N. Bulgaria, close to the 
eee frontier-posts. 
. O, panaticum, Rochel, ex Ind. Kew. i. 483.—Referring to the 
vee cited in the Index Kewensis, I find that the i is there 
described as C. grandiflorum var. banaticum, p. 88, t. 2 (1828). a 
in a ses sense by Henti, Fonte ‘pl. Banat. Temes. ee 
sunt 
nune evidenter revoluti. Ceterum variat planta atque indumento 
nune densiore nune sparso, glabriusculo. Sitne magnitudo cap- 
sularum (et we Barer et factoribus geographicis (ceconomicis) 
potius adtribuenda?” It is pointed out elsewhere that the ripening 
fed teen paar! ra length eaecabhe in ~~ species, and there 
often erence between the capsule of a central flower and the 
ae vec capsule of the alar flowers, anetiae in the primary 
