BOTANY. 
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Pers. syn. 1. p. 521. Smith brit. 2. p. 500. Engl. bot. 472. Hooker scot. p. 144 et 280 
Soland. in Phipps'" voy. p. 202. Br. in Ross' voy. ed. % vol. 2. p. 102. Spitz, pi. in Scores- 
by's arct. reg. 1. append, p. 75. Hooker in Scoresby greenl. p. 413. Cerastium latifolium. 
Light f. scot. 1. p. 242. 1. 10. 
Obs. Species polymorpha cujus tres varietates sequentes in Insula Melville obsei'vatse. 
a. folia oblonga rariusve breve ovalia, pedunculi dichotoini rarius uniflori, pili pedun- 
culorum plerique glaiaduloso-capitati, capsulse oblongae calyce duplo fere longiores. 
/3. folia late ovata, pedunculi dichotomi pilis plerisque acutis, calycis foliola interiora 
glabriuscula. 
y. hirsuta, folia elliptica v. lanceolata, pedunculi divisi et solitarii, pilis plerisque acutis, 
capsulfe calyce paulo longiores. 
18. Stellaria Edwarusii, folds ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis enerviis nitidis, pedun- 
culis terminallbus imifloris trifidisve, petalis blpartitis calyce immerse trinervi longioribus, 
antheris purpureis. 
Obs. Duplex varietas. 
• In a. (cujus exemplaria plurima in Melville Island, et allqua anno 1792, ad Chester- 
field Inlet lecta vidi) folia ovata acuta v. ovato-lanceolata, pedunculi solitarii v. trifidi, 
lateralibus seepissime unifloris altero nunc abortiente, dum solitarii ebracteati, dum divisi 
bibracteati, bracteis semifoliaceis marglne membranaceo ciliato, pedicellis lateralibus pariter 
bibracteatis. Caulis et folia saepius glaberrima, caulls nunc villosiusculus et folia basi ciliata 
villis tenuibus laxls. 
/3. (cujus exemplaria duo, quorum alterum multicaule,) folia ovato-lanceolata apice subatte- 
nuata nitidissima, pedunculi saepius uniflori. Caules et folia glaberrima. 
In utraque fructus desideratur, qui exstat in S. Edwardsii, Richardson in Franklin's journ. 
p. 738. In hac vero, quae forsan distincta species, antberae ochroleucae minimae et polline desti- 
tute, styli elongati et stigmata manifestiora, caules et folia glaberrima, capsida erecta calyce 
fere duplo longior semisexvalvis, semina reniformia levia fusca. 
De Stellaria nltida Hooker in Scoresby greenl. p. 411. cui secundum auctorem folia lan- 
ceolata siccitate subtrinervia, flores subpaniculati et an there flave, incertus sum. 
19. Arenaria quadrivalvis, foliis subulatls acutis glaberrimis trinerviis, pcdunculls 
uniriorls elongatis pubescentibus, calycibus acutlssimls trinerviis petala elliptica superantibus 
capsula quadrivalvi (nune 3 — 5-valvi) sepius brevioribus. 
Alsine rubella, Wahlenb. lapp. 128, t. 6, forsan baud distincta; sed secundum auctorem 
capsula 3-valvis petala rubella et in icone subspathulata basi valde attenuata. 
Desc. Herba 1-2-uncialis. Radix perennis, descendens. Caulis a basi ramosissimus 
cespitem densum efformans, infra vaginis petiolaribus emarcidis nervisque foliorum denudatis 
obsitus, supra dense foliatus. Folia opposita basi connata, subulata, acuta, mutica, super 
concaviuscula, subter convexa, trinervia, marginibus nudis. Pedunculi terminales solitarii. 
