CARYOPH YLLACE* . 



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is the C. alpinum of most Continental 

 botanists, is not so common in Britain 

 as the woolly one figured as C. latifolium, 

 Eng. Bot. t. 473, which is the C. lanatum 

 of some foreign botanists. The C. lati- 

 folium of the Alps of central Europe is 

 not a British plant. 



Fig. 159. 



4. Starwort Cerast. Cerastium trigynum, Vill. (Fig. 160.) 

 (Stellaria cerastoides, Eng. Bot. t. 911.) 



Stems shortly perennial, prostrate and 

 intricately branched, but much more 

 slender than in the alpine C. ; the whole 

 plant glabrous, with the exception of 

 minute hairs down one side of the 

 branches, or rarely generally hairy. 

 Leaves narrow, and usually curved to 

 one side. Flowering branches shortly 

 ascending, with one or two large flowers, 

 on rather long peduncles, like those of 

 the alpine C. ; but the styles are al- 

 most always reduced to 3, or very rarely 

 flowers may be found with 4 or even 5, 

 the teeth of the capsule always double 

 the number of the styles. 



In moist, alpine situations, in all the great mountain-ranges of 

 Europe and Russian Asia to the Arctic Circle. Not unfrequent in the 

 Breadalbane range in Scotland, and other mountains to the northward ; 

 recorded also from near Bantry, in Ireland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 160. 



XI. STARWORT. STELLARIA. 

 Annuals or perennials, generally more glabrous than the Cerasts, the 



