564 DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Cerastium. 
gomeryshire. Ray. Rocks in the King’s Park, Edinburgh, on the south 
side ; and abundantly at Craig Hall, Perthshire, on rocks. Mr. Brown. 
Near Croydon, Surry. Mr. Crowe. P. May—June. 
(L. alpi'na. Smooth: petals bifid: flowers forming a corymb: 
leaves strap-spear-shaped, naked at the base. 
E. Bot. 2254 —FI. Dan. 65. 
Resembles L. viscaria, but is smaller, not viscid, and with petals half- 
divided. Styles five, (but not invariably so. E.) 
Red Alpine Campion. Discovered by Mr. Don, on rocks near the sum¬ 
mit of Clova, Augus-shire, but very scarce. 
P. June—July. E. Bot. Linn. Tr. E.) 
(This plant, with which we have been favoured by the kindness of Mr. 
Winch, extremely resembles specimens in our Herbarium, communicated 
by Mr. Brown twenty years ago for S. viscaria, gathered in Perthshire, 
and also then said to have been found in Angus-shire by Mr. Don. Our 
specimen of the real Lapland alpina furnished by Sir Charles Thunberg, 
is of much more humble growth, exhibiting a stunted and strikingly dif¬ 
ferent habit. E.) 
CERAS'TIUM.* Calyx five-leaved: Petals cloven : Caps . 
one-celled, opening at the top. 
(1) Capsules oblong. 
C. vulga'tum. (Hairy, viscid, suberect: leaves ovate, obtuse : flowers 
subcapitate, longer than their stalks. Sm. Hook. E.) 
(E. Bot. 789. E.)— Curt. — Vaill. 30. 3—Pet. 58. 5. 
Hairs on the calyx and on the upper part of the stem ending in oval or 
globular glands, containing a viscid liquor, which gives a clamminess to 
the touch. (Whole plant hairy and more or less viscid. Six to ten 
inches high, branched below, dichotomous above. Caps, twice the length 
of the calyx. It approaches very near C . viscosum, but is more upright 
and less spreading. Petals white, cloven, nearly half-way down, narrow, 
scarcely exceeding the calyx. Sir J. E. Smith, who has rescued this and 
the following species from their former confusion, observes, that “ the 
light green hue, yellowish in decay, of C. vulgatum, its broad ovate 
leaves and smaller flowers, distinguish it from C. viscosum.” E.) 
(Broad-leaved Mouse-ear Chickweed. Welsh: Corn-wlyddyn; 
Clystllygoden; llydanddail. C. vulgatum. Linn. C. viscosum. Huds. 
With. Ed. 3. Relh. Curt. Sibth. Abbot, Hull, &c. in error from the insuf¬ 
ficiency of the Linnsean characters. E.) Meadows, pastures, walls, dry 
banks, and ant-hills. A. April—June. 
C. visco'sum. (Hairy, viscid, spreading: leaves lanceolate-oblong: 
flowers somewhat panicled, shorter than their stalks. Sm. 
Hook. E.) 
(E. Bot. 790. E.)— Curt. 130— Vaill. 30. 1— Wale. H—Pet. 58. 6—J. B. iii. 
359. 1. 
* (Diminutive of xspag, a horn ; descriptive of the elongated capsule, as exemplified in 
C. alpinuni. E.) 
