124 CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM. 
there is nothing in the brief description to distinguish the plant 
from C. semidecandrum. 
C. sunearicum Uecht. in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxvi. 221 
(1876) ; Velen. Fl. oe 86 (1891). Political vip have 
rendered the name of this Species a misnomer he plant 
was described, the locality i in which the spec _ boheme on d was 
in that portion of the Turkish pachalic of Bulgaria which was 
afterwards incorporated in the kingdom of Rou in The species 
does not occur within the confines of the principality of Bulgaria. 
It is very near the Spanish C. Gayanum, with which the authentic 
os in Herb. Kew. have been compared ; and from which it 
§ distinguished by the more aenal cyme and the distinctly ribbed 
ness of the calyx 
b umania: mountain _— at Grecii, near the town 
of Macin, in the province of Dobr 
. C, BusamBarENse Lojac. FL Sicula, 181 (1888). Je. pre 
Ic. Fl. Germ. Helv. 4984 (C. repens).—Lojacono says that at the 
not examined fruit-specimens. Recently, however, further s — 
mens in better condition, with ripened capsules and seeds, have bee 
received at Herb. Mus. Brit. from the Sicilian botanist; and shake 
specimens I have compared with good examples of C. tomentosum, 
C. alpinum, and others, and have drawn up from them a fresh 
description. They seem to agree well with Reichenbach’s figure of 
C. repens. The species seems closely allied to C. orbelicum and 
C. apuanum, both of which some might, perhaps, be disposed to sink 
in C. tomentosum. Lojacono’s description is, for the reason men- 
tioned, very ee: and as the species seems be well 
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tuberculata, margine suleata, faciebus concava.—A C entost 
omnibus formis diversa, habitu diffusiore obscure ab "Poliis 
evidenter acutis, petalis retusis, capsula erecta. 
Hab. Busambara, in Sicily. 
(To be continued.) 
