1444 
SILÉNE:* laciniáta. 
Cut-flowered Catchfly. 
DECANDRIA TRIGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. CanvornvrLEx Juss. $ Silenee De C. (Introduction to 
the natural system of Botany, p. 157.) 
SILENE. — Supra, vol. 3. fol. 247. 
Sect. VII. Siphonomorpha Otth.  Caulescentes. Flores paniculati, 
raro solitarii; pedicelli oppositi breves. Calyx tubulatus. 
$ 2. Floribus erectis, calycibus longè clavatis. D. C 
S. laciniata ; pubescens, caule erecto ramoso, foliis magnis lanceolatis acutis, 
floribus maximis terminalibus subnutantibus, calycibus longis cylindrico- 
ventricosis, petalis semi-4-fidis, appendicibus 2 ovatis, genitalibus in- 
clusis.—De Cand. prodr. 1. 383. 
S. laciniata. Cavan. icon. 6. 44. t. 564. 
Lychnis pulchra. Schlecht. et Chamiss. in Linnaa, 5. 234. : 
Radix perennis. Caulis sesquipedalis, decumbens, pubescens. Folia 
oblongo-lanceolata, pallide viridia, pubescentia. Flores terminales, coccine:. 
Genitalia in cultá exserta. 
A native of Mexico, whence it was originally introduced 
in 1823, when seeds of it were presented to the Horticul- 
tural Society by the late Right Hon. George Canning. It 
was soon, however, lost, and has been for the second time 
procured by Mr. Graham, to whom we are so much indebted 
for the introduction of some of the finest plants of the rich 
mountain Flora of Mexico. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden 
tural Society in July 1830. 
It is difficult to say what is the proper mode of treating 
of the Horticul- 
* This word is probably derived from cizhor, saliva, De Théis deduces 
it more directly from the drunken god Silenus, whose name he supposes to 
have a similar origin.—Smith in Rees. 
