Order IV. 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
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g/JSS Hairy, Stem dichotomous, Flowers on long stalks. Leaves linear 
^ A slight variety, with longer divisions to the calyx 
6536 Downy, Stem dichotomous. Peduncles long 1-fl. Cal. campanulate ribbed 
6537 Downy, Flowers in umbellate heads, Cal. cylindr. clavate ribbed 
6538 Smooth, Stem dichotomous panicled erect. Flowers terminal solitary 
6539 Smoothish, Flowers fascicled, Cal. cylindr. clavate ribbed. Petals 2-lobed 
6540 Stems ascending smoothish, Fl. dichotomous fascicled, Cal. camp. 10-ribbed, Pet. torn with an appendage 
6541 Smooth, Flowers terminal and axillary 1-3, Cal. rounded clavate ribbed. Petals torn 
6542 Hairy, Fl. 2-3 fastigiate, Cal. rounded clavate woolly. Petals 4-cleft 
6543 Stem viscid about the joints, Limb of petals nearly entire. Leaves linear spatulate 
6544 Smooth, Stems tufted upright, Fl. in dense capitate umbels, Cal. camp. Petals bifid 
a545 Fl. solitary, Cal. with ten keels, Petals bifid, linear-lanc. subciliated 
6546 Fl. dichotomous panicled dioecious, Petals f-bifid, Lobes narrow diverg. Caps, round 
6547 Fl. dichotomous panicled dioecious. Petals |-hifid. Lobes broad aoDroximating, Caps, conical 
6548 Smooth glaucous. Stem erect branched or simple, Leaves lanceolate connate obtuse 
6549 Hairy pale green viscid. Leaves ovate. Petals length of calyx, Fl. longer than fl. -stalk 
6550 Hairy viscid diffuse. Leaves lanceolate oblong 
6551 Stem much branched villous. Leaves ovate-lanc. hispid. Flowers numerous in dichotomous panicles 
6552 Leaves ovate. Flowers panicled, Cal. villous longer than petals. Caps, scarcely longer than sepals 
6553 Hairy viscid. Flowers pentandrous. Petals emarginate 
6554 Hairy subviscid. Flower 4-fid 4-androus, Pet. bifid shorter than calyx 
6555 Leaves linear lanceolate obtuse ciliated at base. Pet. twice as long as calyx 
6556 Glutinous hairy, Fl. solitary in the dichotomies. Sepals lane, acute the length of petals. Leaves lane. 
6557 Leaves eliipt. naked or hairy. Pan. dichotomous few-fl. with bractes. Caps, oblong recurved 
6558 Stems prostrate, Leaves ovate acute subciliated smooth. Flowers terminal subcorymbose 
6559 Leaves sublinear acuminate smooth. Peduncles glandular, Pet. twice as large as calyx 
/S Leaves very narrow and smooth 
6560 Downy, Leaves lanc.-lin. acute. Flowers very large in dichotomous umbels. Pet. crenate and 2-lobed 
6561 Leaves cordate ovate. Stem clasping. Peduncles in fruit very long deflexed 
6562 Hairy viscid. Leaves lanceolate, Fl. dioecious, Petals thrice as long as calyx 
6563 Leaves elliptical scabrous, Pedunc. terminal simple subsolitary. Capsule ovate 
6564 Leaves oblong spatulate hoary. Sepals hoary scarious at edge. Caps, cylindr. longer than calyx 
fi565 Very smooth. Leaves lane, linear, Pedunc. very long. Caps, acute shorter than corolla 
6566 This is the Cerastium aquaticum of English botany 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
A. coronaria and flos-jovis are shewy border flowers, the first generally increased by seeds, and the other 
oy cuttings or division of the plant. 
1067. Lychnis. From Xv^vo;, a lamp, in allusion to the cottony leaves of some species, which have been 
used as wicks to lamps. L. chalcedonica, Croix de Malthe, Fr. and Portug., Croce de Cavaliere, Ital, and 
C. de Jerusalem, Span., is an old and much esteemed border flower, the double varieties of which require some 
care in cultivation, to prevent their returning to the single state, and to propagate them by cuttings. L. 
tulgens and coronata are also very handsome species. " They do best in a light rich loamy soil, but they must 
be often taken up and divided, or they dwindle away ; the best time of doing this is early in spring. L. coro- 
nata thrives and flowers abundantly if planted out in the open ground in spring ; but it requires to be taken 
up m autumn and potted, or the severe frosts in winter will kill it, or injure it very much. All may be raised 
by cuttings planted under hand-glasses, or by seeds, which often ripen in abundance. {Bat. Cult. 389.) 
L. viscaria and floscuculi are more hardy, and grow in common garden soil, and increase abundantly by 
division : they are both old inhabitants of the flower garden. L. diurna and vespertina are also border 
flowers in their double varieties. 
1068. Cerastium. Derived from xi^ae,;, a horn, in all-ision to the cornute form of the capsule of many 
species. Most of the annual species, and some of the others, are weeds ; a few may be grown in pots or on 
rock-work, for both of which they seem well adapted. They are very prolific in seeds, and contribute 
materially to the support of small birds. 
1069. Larbrea. A genus founded by Aug. St. Hilaire, in the second volume of Memoires du Museum, upon 
the Cerastium aquaticum of Linnaeus. He named it after the Abbe de Larbre, who at the age of 80, published 
a 1' lora of Auvergne. 
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