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the petals as well as the filaments are quite glabrous, and un- 
provided with cilia. Under the lens the rust-coloured seeds show a 
gregatum,”’ from the dept. of Var:—‘‘ Cum C. glomerato convenit 
inflorescentia glomerata, bracteis omnibus herbaceis ex toto, pedi- 
cellis fructiferis brevibus, petalorum longitadine et forma. Differt 
floribus pentandris non decandris, sepalis apice nudis non barbatis, 
C. pumilo convenit numero staminum, sepalis apice emarginatis 
nudisque non barbatis, longitudine pedicellorum fructiferorum et 
capsula rectiusculé parumque — inna ramis agi 
glomeratis, bracteis omnibus herbaceis (quarum superiores in C. 
pumilo apice et margine mem ess, petalis brevioribus angusti 
rib i 
as ‘‘in campis caloareis submontosis inter segetes,” in Sicily, at 
Chiaromonte, Ragusa, and Modica. Tornabene, pork in his 
recent Flora Aetnea, includes the species in C. vu 
The 
nee. the Tles Sanguinaires off the west coast of Corsica, and in 
be 
tetrandrum from Algeria, but the plant seems to me to belong to 
C. tetrandrum. 1k Be eographical range of the species is therefore 
extremely restricted. 
94. C. Diazi gees in Anal. Univ. Chil. 1862, pt. 2, 891; et in 
Linnea, xxxiii, 21 (1864-65); Robrb. in set 0" XXXVii. 
(1871-72). ingadincetly characterized. Does not seem to differ 
sufficiently from C. nervoswm, unless indeed it should a scree with 
C. pauciflorum Phil. (= C. oliganthum Williams). The specimens 
collected by Hohenacker at 1100 metres in the Chilean Andes, in 
Phil., Pi. Chilen. no. 180, may possibly be referred to it. 
C. picoromum L. Sp. Pl. 488; Gren. Monogr. 44.—This 
was one of the plants known “ Lobel, and described by him under 
the name ‘of ‘Alsine corniculata”’ in Adv. Stirp. Nov. 246 (1576). 
He manee the specimens fr from Clusius, who collected them near 
he same locality from which afterwards 
Linneus, which are the type-specimens 
preserved in the Linnean Herbarium. The brief diagnosis is— 
- Cerastium foliis lanceolatis, caule dichotomo surge capsulis 
erectis”; and references are given to previous authorities. In 
Basie the species occurs in Spain, Portugal, and Greece (Held eich, 
1884). The geogra rains limits have been worked out from the 
ed 
i Liwte, -N. —Spain; the mountainous — of ae 
province of Galicia, in the neighbourhood of Santiago de 
postella, lat. 48° (Texidor in Revista de los Progresos de las Ciencias, 
XViii. no. 899 [1869]). S.—British Beluchistan, lat. 30° (J. 
