CARYOPHYLLACEiE, ;Q9 



to be rather common from the Quitensian Andes to Valparaiso. Stel- 

 laria leptopetala, Benth. PL Hartw. p. 163, is probably a smaller form 

 of the same species. 



3. Stellaria media, Linn. 



Hab. Sydney, New South Wales; and everywhere, in places inha- 

 bited by man. 



4. Stellaria (lespitosa, Hook. f. 



Stellaria ccespitosa, Hook. f. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 411? 



Hab. Puen Buen, New South Wales. 



The specimens consist of the upper part only of a tuft of floriferous 

 stems, in an advanced state, much more developed and prolonged 

 than in Tasmannian specimens of S. ccespitosa; of which it seems 

 likely to be merely a many-flowered variety. 



5. Stellaria pungens, Brongn. 



Stellaria pung ens, Brongn. Bot. Yoy. Duperr. Coq. t. 78; Hook. f. in Jour. Bot. 1. o. 

 Stellaria squarrosa, Hook. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 250. 



Hab. Puen Buen, New South Wales. 



7. C E R A S T I U M, Linn. 



1. Cerastium arvense, Linn., & 



Yar. Fuegianum : humile; foliis imbricatis; pedicellis solitariis termi- 

 nalibus; floribus amplis. Hook. f. 



Hab. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. 



