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DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I. Dwarf earl/ Ceraflium. 
Cerajlium pumilum pracox. 
The root is a tufc of flender fibres. 
The leaves that rife immediately from it are 
broad, fhort and obtufely pointed : they grow in 
a little tuft, and are of a pale green. 
In the centre of this tuft rifes a fingle ftalk • 
this is round, hairy, upright, rarely at all 
branched, and three inches high. 
The leaves Hand in pairs at confiderable dif- 
tances ; they are fmall, hairy, and fiiort : they 
have no footftalks, but furround the ftalk at the 
bafe. 
The flowers fland at the tops of the ftalks, 
and are fmall, white, and comLofed each of five 
petals nipp'd at the ends : they rarely open. 
The feed-veflel is fmail, long, and clofe at the 
end. 
The leeds are numerous and minute. 
It is common on walls and dry banks ; and 
flowers in April. When it has ftood fome weeks, 
it fometimes is a little branched ; but it is alto- 
gether diftindb from the larger kinds. The 
flowers ftand on Ihorter footflalks, and the plant 
never is at all clammy, as tlie others ufually are. 
The leaves alfo are pointed a little more than in 
them. 
C. Bauhine calls it Jllfnie hirfiita minor. Dille- 
nius, Cerafiium hirjutum minus parvo fiore. 
2. Common broad-leaved Ceraftium. 
Ceraftiiim latifoUum "juigare. 
The root is compofed of flender fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, hairy, and of 
a pale green ; they are not much branched, and 
they are generally fomewhat clammy to the touch. 
The leaves ftand in pairs at fmall difianccs; 
and they are broad, fliorr, hairy, and of a duflcy 
green. 
The flowers are fmail and white : they (land 
on fhort pedicles rifing from the bofoms of the 
leaves, and they rarely open well. 
The feed-veflTel is long, crooked, and dentated 
at the end : the feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is frequent in paftures, and flowers in fpring. 
The whole plant is frequently covered with a 
clammy moifture. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ji/in' hirfiita altera vifcofa. 
Ray, Alfine hirfuta myofotis latifolia pr^cocior. 
Merret, Alfine myofotis humiUor ct rctundiore folio. 
3. Narrow-leaved Ceraftium. 
Cerajliim foliis angujliorihus. 
The root is compofed of fmall, white fibres. 
The flialks are numerous, flender, hairy, of a 
pale green, and five or fix inches high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs; and they are oblong, 
narrow, of a pale green, hairy, and often clam- 
my, as is alfo the ftalk. 
The Bowers ftand on pedicles rifing in the bo- 
lums of the upper leaves; and they are larger 
[han in the others and white. 
The feed-vefTel is long, (lender, and lightly 
dentated at the end. 
The feeds are numerous, minute, and brown. 
Ic is common in our paftures, and flowers iil 
July. 
C. Bauhine Calls it Afme hirfuta magna fiore. 
Merrec, Alfine myfotis frocerior et longi are folio. 
Sometimes this fpecies ifi altogether fmooth, 
ftalks and leaves. 
4. Creeping Ceraflium with great flowers. 
Ceraftium repens fiorihiis amplis. 
The root is flender, and runs under the fur- 
face. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, hairy, of a 
pale green, and five or fix inches in length i 
part of them fl:and ered, and part are procum- 
bent. 
The leaves grow in pairs, without footftalks, 
and are placed at confiderable diftances; they 
are fliort, obtufe, and of a pale green, mode- 
rately hairy, and of a firm fubftance. 
The flowers grow on long, flender footftalks, 
and are very large, and of a fnow white : they 
are compofed each of five petals, dented at the 
ends. 
U he feed vefl"el is long, thick, and crooked, 
and dented at the top ; and the feeds are fmall 
numerous, and angular. 
it is a native of our northern counties, and 
flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Caryophylhis holofieus alpinus 
latifolius. It is a very lingular and beautiful 
plant. 
^. Woolly Ceraftium. 
Ceraflium tomentofuni. 
The root is fibrous and brown. 
The ftalks are numerous and weak : they are 
of a whitifh colour, and fome of them rife up- 
right to the height of eight inches, but moft lie 
upon the ground. 
The leaves are broad, fliort, and obtufe: they 
are placed in pairs, and they are of a woolly foft- 
nefs to the touch, and of a white colour. 
The flowers are large and white : tliey ftand 
on fliort pedicles rifing from the tops of the 
ftalks, and from the bofoms of the upper leaves. 
The feed-velTcI'is long, and conliderably bent: 
the edge deeply divided, and the colour a pale 
brown. 
The feeds are fmall and brownifh. 
Ic is found on the Welch mountains, and 
fcarce any where elfe in Britain. It flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Caryophylhis holcfleus tomen- 
tofus latifolius. 
The flowers is larger than in the former 
fpecies. 
We know nothing of the virtues of any of 
thefe plants, nor of the foreign fpecies following. 
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