CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM. 119 
or in the secondary branches of the same dichasium. The specific 
character is ay ng to be sought in the dry dehiscent capsule of 
a oe 
are caletas characters which individually and collectively 
eem roy separate the plant from C, grandiflorum, and it must be 
sealed beret that specimens of this spe cies, in one of its poly- 
erie forms which are distributed in Hungary, Servia, and 
Roumania, have been labelled ‘‘ C. Banaticum’”’ without ae regard 
to its distinguishing ‘charactord. The following cha: a eem to 
S 
haud revoluta. Dichasium spe 7-florum; bractes v atom 
ovate dorso herbacee ; bea calyce 2-3- plo longiored.. Capsula 
elevatim nervosa 18-15 Semina angulata echinato-tubercu- 
lata. Indumentum ao a a nune glandulosum, nunc fere 
pecs tears canum invyentum, 
The correct authority for this plant is C. banaticum Heuft., 
Enum. pl. Banat. Temes. p. 51 (1858); Velen. Fl. Bulgarica, 88 (1891). 
In an additional supplement (1893) to the latter, Velenovsky soy 
‘** Species. hec in Bulgaria sat polymorpha videtur. ... - 
nunc latiora, nunc tenuiora prestant. Florum fricbvtungue 
characteres immutati permanent, quare nulla ratio a 
grandifloro coadunandum est.'’ The revolute margins of che 
lass in the latter is certainly a distinctive character. Grenier 
mentions the plant under the name of C. grandiflorum var. glabratum, 
and distinguishes it by “ pedunculis crispule pubescentibus et pilis 
enti 
and separated "tron C. gy adios um rhe the following characters :— 
“Glabritie, pube scilicet in tota planta brevi reversd, bracteis dorso 
s 
branaceis, seminibus numerosis minoribus.” Whereas in C. grandi- 
florum,—‘ indumentum lanuginosum, intricatum, bractes dorso 
es age vel pe bagye sepala a medio dorsi vel paulo altius 
hyalina, semina pauca (2-8) minora.” Janka overlooks the cha- 
re pre of the capsule, which, as Seringe rightly states in DC. Pr 
cal 
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is not longer than the calyx. Again, Visiani says of C. paie 
florum: ——o ulam fares. opacam, nec membranaceam, pellu- 
cidam, ealyci sequalem vel paulo longiorem, dentibus 10 
truncatis - varie connatis, nunc 5 bidentatis, nune un 0 alteroque 
tridentato aut indiviso, demum ba asi rimis 5 dehisc all There 
ae But it would be unwise to attempt to reap the — an 
C. supraticosun with the plant from Banat, fro 
ia agnosis, “ caule perenni procumbente, foliig sineaid taisdnobasis 
subhirsutis.” 
have reason, therefore, for believing that the interesting series 
of specimens collected by Mr. Lujo Adamovic in Servia do not con- 
