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jagged at top. Stamens at out as long as petals. Neither petals nor filament ciliate.
Perhaps stamens only 5 lobes, no more found.
Capsule opening with 10 small to straight soft teeth hardly (perhaps not at all) exceeding calyx. Seeds yellowish, about 4/0 mm, roughened. Consider forms of C. illyricum Ard (= C. pallosum Sibth.) Cote I 217; or prob these being a form of C. semidecandrum L.
(see #614)
614
3-12-32 Cerastium
Fl & fr. Can Pastilla-Crevel shore below road. prob olive. Many sts from base spreading decumbent, reddish. Looks similar to #613, internodes much longer than #613, hairs on plant gland-tipped.
Some infl well developed; cymes upper bracts are scarious tipped (possibly #613 would have been similar if further developed) Calyx 4-5 mm long. Capsule when ripe 5+ mm long, slightly curved. Pelioels arcling slightly but not strongly deflexed. Seeds as in #613. Stamens prob 5. Fruiting pedicels at twice as long as calyx. See C. semidecandrum but Cote I 217, #383
Bot #74 & ET 84, Ron 52, inc. in Ku C. varians Crost & Kern forma semidecandrum Ku I#55
615
3-12-32 Cerastium
Fl & fr on same walk as above. Prob same as #614 but more compact in infl and internodes usually no longer than 2/0.