Cerastium Cerastium, Ard

40. C. illyricum Ard View in CoL . Animadv. Bot. Spec. Alt. 26 (1763).

Annual l-5-20(-30) cm, very hairy throughout, the hairs of stems and pedicels often deflexed-appressed. Leaves up to 14 mm, the lower spathulate or obovate, the upper oblong to ovate or elliptical, more or less obtuse. Bracts herbaceous. Sepals oblonglanceolate to lanceolate, more or less acute; petals with a minute acute auricle at base, glabrous; stamens 5-10; styles 5. Seeds chestnut-brown, minutely tuberculate. Aegean region and S. Balkan peninsula;?Corse.?Co Cr G r Tu.

1 Sepals 10-11 mm; stamens ciliate at base; capsule 11-12 mm

(e) subsp. crinitum 1 Sepals 4-9 mm; stamens glabrous; capsule 6-7 mm 2 Sepals 8-9 mm, with wide scarious margins; hairs not or

scarcely extending beyond the apex (d) subsp. illyricum 2 Sepals 4-8 mm, with narrow or no scarious margins; hairs

extending well beyond the apex 3 Petals mostly only c. | as long as sepals; style c. 1 mm

(a) subsp. comatum 3 Petals equalling or exceeding sepals; style 2-5 mm 4 Plant 5-22 cm; sepals 5-5-8 mm; fruiting pedicels 10-50 mm

(c) subsp. proiixum 4 Plant 2-5-10 cm; sepals 5-5-5 mm; fruiting pedicels 5-

13 mm (b) subsp. decrescens