Alsinaceee. 
99 
— Bracts ciliate at the edges. Stems spreading or (among 
herbs or bushes) erect. Ls grass-green, rarely glaucous. 
Hedges, plains; distrib. 6 . . graminea L, 388. 
110. Cerastium. Cerast. X, 27. V, 152. IV, 23. 
1. Pets entire or slightly indented. Caps, shorter or scarcely 
longer than the cal. (Ann. pis, glaucous, entirely glabr.) 
Moenchice spec. auct. ...... 2 
— Pets more or less deeply 2-fid. Caps. gen. distinctly 
longer than the cal. FIs 5-merous ... 3 
2. FIs 4-merous. Pets shorter than the cal. Stem 3—5 cm, 
1 —3-fld. Moenchia .erecta FI. Wett.—Arid places; Ge¬ 
neva. 5.quaternellum Fenzl. 389. 
— FIs 5-merous. Pets almost twice as long as the cal. 
Stem 20—30 cm, 3—many-fld. — As the last; transalp. 
Switz. 6.manticum L. 390. 
3. Styles 3 (rarely by anomaly 4 or 5). Ls glabr., linear- 
lanceolate. Bracts herbaceous. Stellaria cerastoides L. 
—Alp. 7.trigynum Vill. 391. 
— Styles 5, pubescent or villous . ... 4 
4. Caps, ovoid, with valves united in pairs. Comp, 
genus Malachinm. 
Caps, cylindric or cylindric-conic, with valves equally 
separated . . . . . . . . 3 
5. FIs small. Pets shorter, or as long as or barely longer 
than the cal. (not more than 8 mm), rarely 0. Ann. or 
bienn. pis (only No. 394 lasting several years) . 6 * 
— FIs fairly large. Pets IV 2 —2 times as long as the cal. 
Perenn. pis producing numerous tufted barren shoots 
by the side of the fl.-stems ..... 10 
6. Bracts herbaceous up to the top and hairy, at most 
narrowly scarious and glabr. at the edges, the hairs 
reaching beyond the point. Pets or stas ciliate . 7 
— Bracts scarious and glabr. at the sides and top, the 
hairs of the back not reaching beyond the scarious top. 
Pets and stas glabr. ...... S 
7. Fr.-pedicels as long as, or shorter than, the cal.! PI. of a 
light green, with short hairs, with or without glandular 
hairs mixed with the others.—Fallow land, road sides ; 
distrib. 5 . . . . glomeratum Thuill. 392. 
— Fr.-pedicels 2—3 times as long as the cal. PI. of a gray- 
green, rough with long hairs intermixed with (or rarely 
without) glandular hairs.—As the last, but less distrib. 
(wanting in G. T. U. L. A.). 5 brachypetalum Desp, 393. 
8. Bienn. or perenn. pi. Stems 10—40 cm, gen. without 
glands, the lateral ones prostrate, rooting at the base. 
FIs larger than in the 2 last and the 2 following. Seed 
