CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM. 811 
lenge: acuminata sessilia, pilis brevibus plerisque apice bi- vel tri- 
partitis vel rarissime simplicibus scabriuscula, inferiora 25-40 mm., 
g et superne mox in 
(floribus nonn cea ae ribus abortu) ; vedicell fructiferi centrales 
calyce sequi- vel sesquilongiores, alares calyce vix duplo longiores, 
densius glanduloso-pubescentes, capsulam nutantem ferentes; 
1 la 
dentibus subobtusis erectis. Semina fusca, dorso lato leviter obtuse 
oe faciebus plana, obtuse granulata (in capsula centrali 
mediocri 
B m Fenzl, J. ¢. oo sepe laxissimi valde fragiles. 
Flores adiieigc: majores 5-6 mm.; petala paullum longius exserta. 
Capsula calyce fere triplo agi 
Hab. Brazil; in the Campos Geraés district of prov. of Sao 
Paulo,—var. 8, near the town of Caldas, over the border of the 
neighbouring prov. of Minas Geraés (Regnel/, Herb. Brasil. no. iii. 
266, Bre and Serra do Sao Bento, in prov. of Sta. Catharina 
Re 
Can vi ahs’ original specimens were mistaken by him for the 
sarah known C. Commersonianum, from which they differ in 
the nem teateie inflorescence, calyx not campanulate, and other 
characters. Placing Regnell’s specimens side by side with those of 
C. nutans, are readily distinguishable. 
ei 1FFusuM Pers. Syn. Plant. i. 520 (1805); DC. Prodr. i. 
20, “tear Curtis. Founded on Thibaud’s specimens, 
doubtfally stated by Persoon to have been collected in Scotland. 
Seringe gives a somewhat lone diagnosis, based on these speci- 
mens in herb. DC., which he examined. He says that it is a plant 
with the habit of Arenaria leita. 
99. C. Dinartcum Beck & Szyszyl. in Rozpr. Akad. Umiej. 
Wydz. Matemat. age Krakow. xix. 62, t. 4 (1889). Syn. 
C. are (non L.) Vis. in Mem. Real. Istit. Venet. xvi. 168 
(1871). C. a grenis (non L. Pane. Elench. pl. Crnagora, 15 
(1875). Sepala margine anguste scariosa sque ac C. latifolio et 
C. alpino. Folia lanceolata 
No Lape in Herb. ‘Kew. ; but the specimens I examined 
in H iirich seemed quite distinct from C. alpinum and the 
narrower-leaved forms 3 C. latifolium. By Giirke placed between 
C. alpinum and C. trivi 
Hab. eaitehene, ana the Dinaric Alps of the province of 
es 
. C. piorcum Soland. in Aiton, Hort. Kew. ioe an ii. 120 
(1789): Fenzl, Verbreit. Fam. Alsin. t. ad p. 56 (1838); Gren. 
Monogr. 84 (1841) (‘‘species non satis note”’), The short original 
description is, ‘* Hirtu m, viscidum, foliis lanceolatis, floribus dioicis, 
petalis calyce triplo ee RE ee It was cultivated in the Oxford 
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