Cerastium Cerastium, Schellm.

18. C. julicum Schellm. View in CoL , Carinthia II 48: 69 (1938)

( C. rupestre Krasan , non Fischer).

Densely caespitose perennial; upper part of stems glandular with patent hairs about as long as diameter of stem, basal part slightly hairy to glabrous; upper internode not or only slightly elongated. Leaves 10-30 x 1 -2- 5 mm, sparsely ciliate towards the base, otherwise glabrous, with keeled midrib and revolute margins. Flowers 1-3; bracts lanceolate, acute, glabrous or almost so, the lower herbaceous, the upper with narrow scarious margins. Sepals 5-8 mm, acute, pubescent. Capsule up to twice as long as sepals, with thickened outer and inner cell-walls; teeth erect, with revolute margins. Seeds l- 3-l- 8 mm, verrucose. 2« = 36. • S.E. Alps, westwards to c. 14° 15' E. Au Ju.

Plants from C. Italy with leaves up to 4 mm wide, capsule-teeth erect, with revolute margins, and seeds c. 1 - 2 mm, have been described as C. arvense L. var. viscatum Montelucci. This seems to be closely related to 18 and 22 a, and may be treated as a separate species, C. viscatum (Montelucci) Jalas, Arch. Soc. Zool.-Bot. Fenn. Vanamo 18(1): 57 (1963).