120 CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM, 
sist wholly of C. banaticum, but in part of C. grandiflorum. The 
leaves of C. banaticum are altogether glabrous, though ciliate at the 
margin towards the base inte sepals are not slightly membranous 
at the tip, as Janka states, but all along the edge, so that the 
hyaline margins taken on both sides of each sepal are together 
about equal in breadth to the central herbaceous portion. I have 
discussed these specific differences at length, after the examination 
of authentic specimens, in order to justify the raising of this plant 
to specific rank, since it has frequently been regarded as a variety 
only of C.  Areecadges 
ab. ot as unties of Temes —_ Torontal (the original 
specimens). Servi m (Alemivis). ae the Iron Gates of 
the Danube (Borbas, 1873). Bulgari ite “Rilo o, in the Balkans 
tal also Mt. Teteven-Baffan 
nogr. Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. h. "64 (1884); Reichb. Ic. Fl. 
Gen Hate 4987 b (C. suffruticosum). 
aRBuLATUM Wahlenb. FI. Carpat. Princ. 187, n. 446 
(184); “Link Enum . Hort. Berolin. i. 483 (1821): = C. brachy- 
° br 
former was taken up and described by Fischer (813). There is no 
ipto end Szepes, i in Hungary. In a note by Gay attached to his 
specimens Sorte 1881), comparison is suggested with a plant 
labelled * atum” in Ducros’ herbarium. The character of 
the hairs is Sadiihed by Wahlenbe erg:—‘* Villi totius plante 
glandulis omnibus carent, et sepe tam tenues ut articuli oto ee 
conspiciantur, sed longi itudine diam. caulis plerumque super, 
Calyces duplo minores quam in Sean vulgato ; foliolis siacletiios 
extra 
whee. ckriotusataat 8- -pollicares, inferne dense foliosi, in on 
parte uno alterove pari folioram jacked, Folia oblonga obtusa 
aut acutiuscula, 6 lin. et ultra longa, 14 lin. lata. Panicula 
terminalis dichotoma, 5-7- 
d 
ari Pedunculi peracta florescentia 
sete subhorizontales, flore <n eat i cernuo. Sepala elliptica 
uta margine lato scarioso, alba calyce sesquilongiora. 
Comeals cylindrica curviuscula cue: sesquilongior. Planta tota 
