* 
312 CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM. 
Botanic Garden in 1766. Aiton does not state the source of the plant 
—— supplied seeds for the cultivated plant. There is, owever, an 
uthentic sp cel — 16 centim. long, in Herb. Kew. ; and this 
is is Inbelled “¢ Gibra From a careful examination of this in- 
co’ 
raltaricum. Pa a cultivated form, the name cannot, thaxefens 
supersede the latte 
101. C. prvaricatum Herbich, in Flora, vii. 184 (1824). Over- 
looked in Grenier’s monograph, and not mentioned by Nyman. 
By Giirke placed among the “species dubie vel non he note. 
Herbich says that he found the plant in the Valle di S. Rocco, in 
the prov. of Campania, and growing close at hand was C. glomeratum. 
The diagnosis is in German, and the following is a Latin rendering 
s divaricatum ; folia subfloralia margine haud membranacea ; 
ved ell fructiferi ‘calyce multoties longiores, basi haud refracti. 
So that it seems rather to be a form or state of C. triviale. It is 
not mentioned in Greni that monograph, nor is it referred to by 
Tanfani in Parlatore’s Flora Italiana. If it were a well-marked 
form, it would surely be noticed by Tenore in ae or other of his 
numerous contributions to the Neapolitan flor 
102. C. Drecranum Fenzl in Ann. Wien. re i. 841 (1836). 
Ic. Gren. Monogr. Cerast. t. 6 (C. br rachyca) wee) Named after the 
Dutch botanist who collected so assiduous sly in ted Africa. 
Bas 
et-Loire, suppl. 24. There is no copy of ars flora in Tech. Kew., 
neither is the name taken up in Index Kewensi 
Se. poke ser. 11. vi. 348 (1836) ‘(iia i species Seater on 
Durieu’s Pl. sel. Hisp. Lusit. no. $94, collected in flower and fruit 
15 July, 1835, on the mountains of Asturias, near Paste de 
Leitariegos. On the label attached a Gay’s type-specimens 1n 
Herb. Kew. is the citation, “* Desm. in Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. viii. 
(published in 1836). In what Des Moulins subsequently wrote as _- 
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