210 CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM. 
the Turkish flora is on the authority of Grisebach (Spicil. jl. Rumel. 
Bithyn. i. 209), who, however, states that the petals in the Balkan 
specimens are ciliate. If this is so, the specimens cannot be 
C. campanulatum, a almost aabonee! belong to C. petricola Pancic, 
a species found on Mt. Rilo, on the Bulgarian side of the Balkans. 
The specimens so ie aed ime the Azores belong to an endemic 
species, C. Azoricum. 
63. Escens Hornem. in Herb. Balbis, ex DC. Prodr. 1. 
416 (1824): - ee =. brachypetalum Desp. In referring the specimens 
C. brachypetalum, Seringe notes a slight variation, ‘‘ caulis 
foliaque pilosissima.”’ Royle’ s specimens under this name, collected 
in Kashmir, Ee to C. triviale. 
species are Ecklon & Zeyher, n. 265 (C. semidecandrum), n. 266 
(C. pentandrum), and n. 267 nid vulgatum). Quite different from 
n. 238) ; Boseh- ‘Hoof, in Clanwilliam District (Schlechter, Pl. 
— * 1896, n. 8471). 
illiams. Caules 22-23 centim. Folia 
rates basset basi longe petiolato-attenuata, superiora lanceo- 
lato-line — silia. Bractee foliis similes. Petala oblonga 
she a. 
Transvaal Republic: Pilgrim’s Rest, in the mountainous 
Laden District (Rev. W. Greenstock, 1879). 
piopeTaLuM Naud. in OC. Gay, Fl. Chilena, i. 274 
(1945): etl ives; sonianum Ser. So named from the obcordate 
petals. 
- C. Carmruiacum Vest, in Botan. Zeitung, vi. 120 (1807). 
An earlier name for C. ovatum gone (1809), which it or tigicrny 
It has been attempted to distinguish these as two spec 
differences, however, ‘‘on paper” are very slight, and in ches plants 
themselves do not exist at all, 
67. Cc um Turez. ex Ledeb. Fl. Rossica, i. 418 (1842) : 
= C. arvense ager ‘pabaflaen Williams 
um Lomax Pe ay Bot. 1898, 831. The 
rae of the ripe capsule ie this Spanish species near 
ru 
69. C. casrrarum Kittel, Taschb. fl. Deutsch]. 1074 (1837 Ae 
C. glomeratum var. castratum Wohlfarth in Koch, Syn. fi. Ger 
(ed. ies 308 (1892). — fortilis: 6 
Prussia: nr. Himmelpfort, in in prov. of Brandenburg (not 
to . pei with Hinunelpforten, ; in Hanover). 
