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CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM. 1238 
the specimens examined may not affect; but it is far worse for an 
author to cite manuscript names from his s own herbarium, which 
serves only to draw attention to his tendency to the indiscriminate 
ie io ih of species. After thus bringing to notice early in 
this list a category of names which have no sort of status, it is not 
intended in this series of notes to take further note of names which 
_ been ponienen in this way, though they find a place in the 
x Kewens 
coin C. sosniracum G. Beck ex Nym. Consp. Fl. Eur. suppl. 62 
(1889), et Hort. Kew. 1898. This plant i “described by Prof. 
Beck v. Mannagetta as a form of C. tomentosum ; and it is only the 
faulty compilation of the index to the work in which it is mentioned 
which misled Nyman into citing it as a species. In the present 
with C. 
tosum. From them I have drawn up a brief Aiacontial diagnosis 
of the characters which distinguish the plant from typical C. 
tomentosum. Prof. Beck refers only to the dillon: form of the 
leaves. 
C. tomentosum var. bosniacum.—Planta lanugine minus intricatim 
tomentosa vestita ; oes caulina elliptica vel ovato-elliptica rotun- 
dato-obtusa, inferiora ovata; dichasium 6-9-florum; flores centrales 
erecti, alares nutantes ; ae lanceolate subacute ; sepala ovato- 
lanceolata: U. Mesiaco Friy. simillima, hee qui idem C. tomentosi 
Ss. 
Hab. §. Bosnia. 
~ agen racHYPETALUM Desp. in Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 520 (1805). 
This a species of wide distribution in Europe, Asia Minor, and 
North "At rica, and extending eastwards to Siberia, if one may rely 
on specimens in Herb. DC. labelled “C. ruderale,” collected by 
Fischer, which belong to this species. The geographical area of 
the species, as to its extreme limits, works out as follows :— 
N.—Sweden; Branningeklint, in the lan of grees 
lat. 59° (ex Hartman, Skand. Flora, ed. 1876, 128. S.—Cyp 
(Sintenis et Rigo, It. _— um, 1880, n. 1012). HE. i ai: 
(Fischer). end he . Villafranca del Vierzo, in province 
of Leon (Lange), 
If the ssilsentisity of Fischer’s Siberian specimens should be 
doubtful, the eastern limit would _ the governme ent of Tiflis, in 
Trans-Caucasia (Hichwald). C. canescens Hornem. is reducible to 
this species, but magi Ss "specimens thus labelled, collected in 
Kashmir, belong to C. tri 
54. C. BREVIFLORUM 0 Fl. aciarige ii. 158 (1782). 
I have not been able to refer to a copy of this work, but the 
ee description is from the same author’s Evercitia Phyto- 
logica in Lithuania, p. 298 (1792) :—* Caulis simplex seu vix 
ramosus, triuncialis. Folia ovata, hirsuta; paribus paucis. Flores 
parvi, en calycis; petala emarginata: stamina 5; styli 3.” 
s the species in C. semidecandrum, ignoring ’Gilibert’s 
mention of ‘hike styles, which is possibly an error. Otherwise, 
