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11. CART OPH YLLACEiE . 
in the forks) are pentamerous and larger, with more bulky 10- 
Talved caps. ; but the great majority are tetramerous though 
still often with 5 stam. Pet. small inconspicuous about f- the 
length of the sep. heart-shaped with blunt lobes cloven nearly 
halfway down. Seeds bright reddish-chestnut, compressed, 
granulate most strongly at the back. 
** Root perennial. Pet. twice as long as the calyx. 
4. C. vagans Lowe. 
More or less pubescent, always glandular and viscid upwards ; 
st. elongate diffuse and weakly straggling, suffrutescent down- 
wards, ascending upwards, and with the whole cyme, br. 
pedic. and sep., densely clothed with tawny glandular viscid 
hairs : 1. narrow linear-lanceolate acuminate or ensiform and 
sessile crowded downwards ; fl. numerous ; br. ovate or lan- 
ceolate herbaceous ; sep. generally bluntish with broad scarious 
tips and margin, pet. bifid conspicuous scarcely twice as long 
as the sep. ; caps, short ovate or oval before bursting, equal to 
or a little longer than the sep. — Novit. 26, 27, or 548, 549. — 
Per. Mad. reg. 3 ; it. Dry rocks from 4500 to 5500 ft. Along 
the Caminho Central, between the Primeira Vista and the first 
view into the Serra d’Agoa ; also under Pico Grande. July, 
Aug-. — Habit and foliage of a Stcllaria. St. 6 to 18 in. or 2 ft. 
long, slender, and with long internodes upwards, but decidedly 
shrubby below and thickly jointed, the joints swollen, with 
short internodes, never rooting, and although branched, and 
often crowded, not at all cespitose. L. more or less pubescent 
but never ciliate, stiffish and sharp-pointed, very like those of 
Stellaria Holostea L. but shorter, scarcely an inch long and 2 
or 3 lines wide, usually tapering gradually from the base to the 
point, sometimes more or less lanceolate. Cymes erect forked 
subcorymbose 7-14- or more flowered. Even the minute upper- 
most bracts are very slightly if at all scarious at the tips or 
margins ; but the sep. are broadly so. Pedic. before and after 
flowering always perfectly erect, not bent beneath the cal., but 
with buds, fl. and fr. alike erect. Styles 5. Caps, usually con- 
cealed by the cal., with 10 short blunt valves. Yar. : 
n. fulva ; altogether densely clothed with tawny glandular 
hairs. 
/3. calva ; altogether smoother, the lower 1. nearly or quite 
smooth. 
Approaches nearest to C. arvense L. y. suffruticosum Koch 
136 ; but is sufficiently distinct from every state of the sp. by 
its altogether larger size and diffuse or rampant not at all cespi- 
tose habit, its long straggling divaricate branches with long 
intemodes and fulvous pubescence, its longer not ciliate leaves 
