BOTANY. 
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Pers. syn. 1. p. 521. Smith hrii. %. p. 500. Engl. hot. 472. Hooker scot. p. 144 et 280 
Soland. in Phipps’" voy. p. 202. Br. in Ross' voy. ed. 2. vol^. 2. p. 192. 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 observatse. 
«. folia oblonga rariusve breve ovalia, pedunculi dichotomi rarius uniflori, pili pedun- 
culorum plerique glanduloso-capitati, capsulae 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, 
capsulm calyce pavdo longiores. 
18. Stellabia Edwabusii, folds ovato-lanceolatis integeiTirnis enerviis nitidis, pedun- 
culis terminallbus unifloris trifidisve, petalis blpartitis calyce immerse trinervi longloribus, 
antheris purpureis. 
Obs. Duplex varietas. 
In a. (cujus exemplaria plurima in Melville Island, et aliqua anno 1792, ad Chester- 
field Inlet lecta vldi) folia ovata acuta v. ovato-lanceolata, pedunculi solitarii v. trifidi, 
lateralibus smpisslme unifloris altero nunc abortion te, dum solitarii ebracteati, dum divisi 
bibracteati, bracteis semifoliaceis margine membranaceo ciliato, pedicellis lateralibus pariter 
blbracteatis. Caulis et folia ssepius glaberrima, caulis nunc viliosiusculus et folia basi ciliata 
villis tenuibus laxls. 
/o. (cujus exemplaria duo, quorum alterum multlcaule,) folia ovato-lanceolata apice subatte- 
nuata nitidissima, pedunculi saepius uniflori. Caules et folia glaberrima. 
In utraque fructus desideratin', qul exstat in S. Edwardsii, Richardson in Franklin's jour n. 
p. 738. In hac vero, quae forsan distincta species, antherae ochroleucae minimae et polline destl- 
tutae, styli elongati et stigmata manifestiora, caules et folia glaberrima, capsula erecta calyce 
fere duplo longior semisexvalvis, semina renlformia laevla fusca. 
De Stellaria nitlda Hooker in Scoi'esby greenl. p. 411. cui secundum auctorem folia lan- 
ceolata siccitate subtrinervia, flores subpanlculati et antherae flavae, incertus sum. 
19. Abenabia quadbivalvis, folds subulatls acutis glaberrimis trinerviis, peduncuds 
unifloris elongatis pubescentibus, calycibus acutisslmis trinerviis petala elliptica superantibus 
capsula quadrlvalvl (nune 3 — 5-valvl) s^pius brevloribus. 
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-unclads. Radix perennis, dcscendens. Caulis a basi ramosissimus 
cmspltem densum effbrmans, infra vaginis petiolaribus emarcidis nervisque fodorum denudatis 
obsitus, supra dense fodatus. Folia opposita basi comiata, subulata, acuta, mutica, super 
concaviuscula, subter convexa, trinervia, marginibus nudis. Pedunculi terminales solitarii, 
