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FL. Throughout the year. 
Stem herbaceous, slender, filiform, one to several feet in 
length, dichotomously branched, procumbent, pubescent with 
dense curled short hairs. Leaves opposite, broad lanceolate, 
attenuated at the base (so as to render the leaf subsessile,) 
mucronate, entire, minutely puberulous. Peduncle axillary, 
solitary, l-Howered, longer than the leaf, filiform, puberulous. 
Sepals green, membranaceo-margined, lanceolate, externally to 
the glass puberulous. Petals 5, of the same length as, but 
somewhat broader, than the sepals, oblong. Stamens 10, length 
of the petals, hypogynous : anthers globose, white. Ovary 
spherical : styles 3, spreading : stigmata puberulo-papillose. 
Capsule 1- celled, 6-valved at the apex: seeds numerous, com- 
pressed. 
This is a very common plant in the above localities, and is to 
be found on every bank. It is remarkable that it should have 
hitherto escaped notice in this Island. It appears, if I may 
judge from specimens in Sir William Hooker’s Herbarium, to 
be also a native of North America, having been noticed by 
Elliot, in his Flora of South Carolina and Georgia, and collected 
by Drummond in the neighbourhood of New Orleans. It is 
singular that I should have given ten years ago the same spe- 
cific designation, which I now find it bears in the work of Mr 
Elliot. 
VI. Cerastium. Mouse-eared Chickweed. 
Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, bifid. Stamens 10. 
Styles 5. Capsule 1 -cel led, cylindrical or globose, 
dehiscent at the apex with 10 teeth. 
Name, a horn, from the capsules of many of the species 
being long and curved. 
1. Cerastium spathulatum. Spathulate-leaved Chick- 
weed. 
Stem subsimple slightly villous, leaves hairy, the 
lower ones obovato-spathulate petiolate, those of the 
stem subovate, flowers glomerate. 
Bertero, De Cand. Prod. I. 416. 
HAB. Neighbourhood of St Catherine’s Peak. 
FL. Warmer months. 
Root fibrous. Stem herbaceous, occasionally simple, at 
other times branched, somewhat decumbent at the base, slightly 
compressed, purpurascent. Leaves opposite : lower ones 
spathulate, rounded and refuse at the apex, entire, hairy ; the 
upper ones sessile, ovate, blunt rounded at the base, hairy, par- 
