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SILENE pengylvanica. 
American Wild-pink. 
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DECANDRIA 7RIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CARYOPHYLLER. Jussieu gen. 299. “Dio. V. Calyx tubu- 
losus. Stamina alterna hypogyna, alterna sepiüs epipetala. Styli 2 aut 3 
aut 5. 
SILENE. Cal. tubuloso-ventricosus 5-dentatus. Рег. 5 unguiculata, 
ad faucem 2-dentata, suprà. sepé bifida. Caps. 3-loc. apice 5-fariàm 
dehiscens. Pedunculi uni- aut multiflori, axillares aut terminales aut ex 
dichotomiä caulis. Species quadam basi suffrutescentes, una muscoides cæspi- 
fosa. Juss, loc. cit. 302, 
Div. Petala ad faucem coronala. Floribus ex dichotomiä caulis. 
S. pensylvanica, viscido-pubescens; foliis cuneatis, caulinis lanceolatis, 
cauliculis in summitate paucifloris, petalis obtusissimis levitér emargi- 
natis subcrenatis. Michaux bor-amer. 1. 272. 
Silene ensylvanica, Pursh amer. sept. 1. 316; (exclusá S. virginicá 
Wild. 7 Persoon syn. 1. 498. Bigelow flor. boston. 110. 
Silene incarnata. Loddiges’s bolan. cabin. t. 41. 
Silene caroliniana. Walt. car. 244; (tantummodd quoad varietatem cum 
petalis utringue carneis ; suspicamur enim speciem ad minimum in duas se- 
parandam fore ). MEN 
Humilis, subquadriuncialis. Folia mferiora lanceolato-cuneata biuncialia 
9% magis, angusta, elongata, inferne versüs canaliculata et petiolatim alte- 
nuata, firmula, vilis asperiusculis marginata; superiora breviora lineari- 
lanceolata, opposita atque basi subvaginoso-connata, hirsutis villosa. Caulis 
fsæpiùs plures) villosus, asperiusculus strictus, superné trichotomo-cymosus, 
pluriflorus, pedunculo intermedio trichotomiarum .unifforo. Flores Superiores 
subfasciculato-approximati, pedunculis viscoso-villosis connatim bibracteatis. 
Cal. subuncialis cylindricus, pro genere angustus, rubro-viridans, viscido-pu- 
bescens, sulcatus sulcis 10 herbaceis prominentibus сит totidem depressis meme 
branosis roseis diaphanis alternis. Cor. rosea; pet. unguibus equantibus сайусет 
et pro longitudine stipitis germinis cum eo іп cylindrum conferruminatis 
laminä oblongo-cuneatd, breviore calyce, erenato-truncatä, lamellulis 2 denti- 
Jormibus concoloribus brevibus ad basin. Stam. alterna corolla unguibus in- 
serta, alterna summo stipiti germinis, exsuperantia calycem. Styli 3, exserti, 
recurvati, apice subrosei. Germ. oblongum, 3-plo brevius stipite. 
The Sirene virginica of Linnzus, and the SILENE Cates- 
bæi of Walter, have been adopted by Willdenow as distinct 
species, and placed in different sections of the genus, though 
һе has quoted Pluknet's plant as a synonym to both: and in 
fact they are one and the same species, in as far as Pluknet's 
and Catesby’s plant is included as a variety in caroliniana, 
Mr. Pursh cites Willdenow's virginica to Michaux's pensyl- 
татса, the former being that of Linnxus, the latter the 
