476 CRITICAL NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF CERASTIUM. 
The following is the Ps roan of Endress’s written label attached 
to the specimen :—‘‘ Between the rocks on the hilly slope of Nouria 
in the descent from the Col a Nouria, and at the Cume de la Grave 
in making for the valley from the lakes of roar oo the Pie 
de Carlitte.” It is labelled by him “ C. lat 
114. C. ertopHorum Kit. in Schultes, pias Tks (ed. 2), i. 
694 (1814): = C. alpinum. A short diagnosis in German, of which 
the following is a Latin rendering :—Folia elliptico- lanceolata 
obtusa, inferiora ovata, lanata ; capsula calyce duplo longior. 
original specimens were collected in the county of Liptau, in 
Hungary, on the Tatra Mountains. Rochel appears to have found 
the plant also in the Carpathians. 
115. C. rancatum Ledeb. te Come i. 898 Seer Syn. 
dentate, and Tish shorter than the calyx. There need be scarcely 
any doubi of referring it to this species; nor is there any need 0 
considering it even as a variety. The form also occurs in Spain a and 
Algeria. In Index Kew ewensis, reduced to C. semidecandrum. 
117. C. rasctoutnarum Bartl. in Presl, Relig. Haenk. ii. 16 (1830). 
Mexican specimens, not to be distinguished from C. arvense, except 
that the lower internodes ar e shortened, so that the leaves are in 
closer pairs and almost facsivulate at the base 
118. C. rmirorium Vest, in Flora, iii. 853 (1820). ine original 
description is :—* Peren enne, cespitosum. Caules filiform e basi 
prostrata adscendentes, Folia trigona. Pedicelli calycem sabe, 
fructiferi erecti. Flores speciosi. Petala biloba, lobis obtusis, calyce 
duplo a. ” With difficulty distinguished from C. banaticum, 
but best reduced to 0. grandiflorum, of which it may be oe 
i Se with narrower leaves, The -specimens 
Hilneuah wad: in the Styrian Alps, near Mariazell. 
