BOTANY. 
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Pers. syn. 1. p. 521. Smith brit. 2. p. 500. Engl. hot. 472. Hooker scot. p. 144 et 280 
Soland. in Phipps' 1 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/ scot. 1. p. 242. 1. 10. 
Obs. Species polymorpha cujus tres varietates sequentes in Insula Melville observata. 
a. folia oblonga rariusve breve ovalia, pedunculi dichotomi rarius uniflori, pili pedun- 
culorum plerique glanduloso-capitati, capsula oblongae calyce duplo fere longiores. 
(3. folia late ovata, pedunculi dichotomi pilis plerisque acutis, calycis foliola interiors 
glabriuscula. 
y. liirsuta, folia elliptica v. lanceolata, pedunculi divisi et solitarii, pilis plerisque acutis, 
capsula calyce paulo longiores. 
18. Stellaria Edwardsii, foliis ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis enerviis nitidis, pedun- 
culis terminalibus unifloris trifidisve, petalis bipartitis calyce immerse trinervi longioribus, 
antheris purpureis. 
Obs. Duplex varietas. 
In a. (cujus exemplaria plurima in Melville Island, et aliqua anno 1792, ad Chester- 
field Inlet lecta vidi) folia ovata acuta v. ovato-lanceolata, pedunculi solitarii v. trifidi, 
lateralibus sapissime unifloris altero nunc abortiente, dum solitarii ebracteati, dum divisi 
bibracteati, bracteis semifoliaceis margine membranaceo ciliato, pedicellis lateralibus pariter 
bibracteatis. Caulis et folia sapius glaberrima, caulis nunc villosiusculus et folia basi ciliata 
villis tenuibus laxis. 
13. (cujus exemplaria duo, quorum alterum multicaule,) folia ovato-lanceolata apice subatte*- 
nuata nitidissima, pedunculi sagpius uniflori. Caules et folia glaberrima. 
In utraque fructus desideratin’, qui exstat in S. Edwardsii, Richardson in Franklin's journ. 
p. 738. In hac vero, qua- forsan distincta species, antherae ochroleucae minima et polline desti- 
tuta, styli elongati et stigmata manifestiora, caules et folia glaberrima, capsida erecta calyce 
fere duplo longior semisexvalvis, semina reniformia lavia fusca. 
De Stellaria nitida Hooker in Scoresby greenl. p. 411. cui secundum auctorem folia lan- 
ceolata siccitate subtrinervia, flores subpaniculati et anthera flava, incertus sum. 
19- Arenaria quadrivalvis, foliis subulatis acutis glaberrimis trinerviis, pedunculis 
unifloris elongatis pubescentibus, calycibus acutissimis trinerviis petala elliptica superantibus 
capsula quadrivalvi (nune 3 — 5-valvi) sapius brevioribus. 
Alsine rubella, Wahlenb. lapp. 128, t. 6 , forsan haud 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 
caspitem densum efformans, infra vaginis petiolaribus emarcidis nervisque foliorum denudatis 
obsitus, supra dense foliatus. Folia opposita basi connata, sub u lata, acuta, mutica, super 
concaviuscula, subter convexa, trinervia, marginibus nudis. Pedunculi terminales solitarii, 
