566 DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Cerastium. 
from that species. It appears that the stem is at length protruded beyond 
the insertion of the flower-stalky and may occasionally bear an autumnal 
flower when the first has ripened its seed. The capsule is oval, and is not 
curved, shorter than that of C. alpinum . E. Bot. Capsules globular at 
first, but when ripe a long straight horn. Hall. Wulfen in Jacq. Coll. 
Lowermost leaves frequently glabrous. Hook. E.) Lightfoot refers his 
Scottish specimens to C. latifolium , but his figure represents C. alpinum. 
(Broad-leaved Mouse-ear Chickweed. E.) Specimens from Mr* 
Griffith, gathered on Clogwyn y Garnedd, agree with a specimen which 
I have from Switzerland. Mr. Griffith observes that it grows in no other 
place about Snowdon. (On the Highland mountains. Mr. Mackay. E.) 
P. June. 
C. arven'se. Leaves strap-spear-shaped, bluntish, fringed at the 
base: blossoms larger than the calyx. 
(Curt. JV. E. E.)— E. Bot. 93— Kniph. 8— Vaill. 30. 4 and 5 — Ger. 477. 
11—FY. Dan. 626— J. B. iii. 360. 1—Ger. Em. 595. 15— Park. 1339. 7. 
( Stems numerous, entangled and decumbent at the base, six to twelve 
inches long. Leaves about an inch in length, varying in breadth, pointed, 
covered with a short thick down, as are the stems. Petals twice as long 
as the calyx, white, few. E.) 
(Field Chickweed. E.) Caryophyllus Holostius arvensis. Ger. Em. 595. 
Corn-fields, gravelly meadows and pastures, at the foot of walls, dry 
banks, and heaths, in Cambridgeshire. Dupper’s Hill, near Croydon* 
About Bury, frequent, amongst com. Mr. Woodward. Near Norwich. 
Mr. Crowe. By hedges, but rarely amongst corn. Mr. Robson. (On 
Fulwell Hills, Marsden Rocks, and near Chester Bridge, Durham ; also 
at Friar’s Goose, near Gateshead. Winch Guide. Guillon links. Mr. Ar- 
nott. Grev. Edin. E.) P. May—Sept. 
C. semidecan'drum. Hairy and viscid: stamens five : petals slightly 
cloven. 
Dicks. H. S. — Curt. 122— (E. Bot. 1630. E .)—Ray 15. 1. at p. 348— Vaill. 
30. 2. 
Stems very short, (two or three inches high. E.) Leaves egg-shaped, op¬ 
posite, somewhat channelled, blunt, sprinkled with very short hairs. 
Fruit-stalks very short, each with one flower. Calyx with glutinous 
hairs, membranous at the point and edges. Petals strap-shaped, white, 
sharply notched at the end. Stamens five, with white anthers, the five 
inner ones without anthers. Five nectariferous dots between the fruitful 
stamens and the petals. Linn. Barren jilaments not found with us. Sta¬ 
mens, fertile ones sometimes more than five. (A plant truly paradoxical, 
greatly resembling C. viscosum , yet admitted by all Botanists to be a 
species per se , well marked, though no one has been able to discriminate 
it by characters. Smith observes that it displays itself on every wall in 
early spring, and withers away before C . viscosum begins to put forth its 
far less conspicuous blossoms. E.) 
(A variety has been remarked, with larger petals, cloven one-third of their 
length, and having capsules twice as long as the calyx. C. pumilum. 
Curt. FI. Lond. t. 30. With. Abbot. C. semidecandrum Sm. E.)" 
(C. Tiumile of Rev. Hugh Davies is described, ee hirsutum; floribus pen- 
tandris, petalis linearibus, integris; calyce brevioribus, caulibus procum- 
bentibus.” 
