422 DR. G. E. POST: DIAGNOSES 
silicle 24 lines long. The specimen from which the above descrip- 
tion was made has few fruits and no flowers. 
IV. SILENEZ. 
DrANTHUS MULTIPUNCTATUS, Ser., var. PRUINOSUS. Indumen- 
. tum pruinosum. 
Hab. ad rupes calidos ad viam inter Hierosolymam et 
Jericho. 
D. FLORIBUNDUS, Boiss., var. KERHANICUS. Folia et caules 
pruinoso-scabridi; flores rarius bini, sæpius solitarii; petala 
siccitate flava. 
Hab. prope Kerhân ad radices australes montis Akherdagh, 
Syris borealis. 
D. AvRANITICUS. Glaber glaucescens, caulibus parce ramosis, 
floribus axillaribus vel terminalibus solitariis magnis longe pedun- 
eulatis, squamis quaternis oblongo-lanceolatis apice patulis sca- 
rioso-marginatis in cuspidem viridem acutam patulam vel ascen- 
dentem abruptiuscule attenuatis, calycis squamis 23plo longioris 
dentibus triangulari-lanceolatis mucronatis, lamina obovato-spa- 
thulata parce dentata. 
Hab.in agris inter Irbid et Bosrah, ditionis Haurán; floret 
Junio. 
Near D.judaicus, Boiss. but readily distinguishable by gla- 
brescence, branching stems, and longer scales. ($ 2. Leiopetali- 
* Flores solitarii, t Squamæ subquaterne.) 
A plant 1 foot high, with somewhat the aspect of D. Libanotis, 
Labill., but more slender, and with sparingly dentate, not fim- 
briate, petals, with erect branching stems; leaves 1-2 inches 
long, linear acute, plicate-canaliculate, narrowly white-margined, 
the lower imbricated, dilated at base; scales 5-6 lines long; 
calyx 14-16 lines long, striate ; colour of (immature) petals not 
determinable. 
SILENE Porrerr. Perennis, pruinoso-scabrida, caulibus paucis 
humilibus, unifloris vel parce dichotomis 2-3-floris, foliis radicali- 
bus brevibus lineari-spathulatis, intermediis acutis, superioribus 
subulatis brevissimis, calycis anguste cylindrici elongati rubro- 
vittati dentibus ovato-triangularibus margine scariosis ciliatulis, 
lamina obcuneata bifida, corons lobis cuspidatis, capsula ovato- 
oblonga calyce sublongiore carpophoro breviore. | 
