8 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE, 
and seeds bearded at the hilum. With the view of still further 
restricting the significance of Lychnis, he also* proposed to 
revive the Linnean genus Coronaria, which, as far as the 
European species of Lychnis are concerned, would include 
L. Coronaria, Lam. (Agrostemma Coronaria, Linn.), L. Cyrilla, 
Richter, and DL. sibirica. So that this would leave the genus 
Lychnis represented in Europe solely by L. chalcedonica of 
Russia. Coronaria glabra, etc., of ‘Hort. Upsal.,’ p. 115, having 
capsules plurilocular at the base, is to be referred to the Silene 
group, and is the species on which Reichenbach founded his 
genus Hudianthe. 
The genus Coronaria, which it is proposed to revive, is thus. 
defined by Linnzeus:—“ (Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, 
claveforme, striatum, erectum, coriaceum, 5-angulare, 5-den- 
tatum, persistens : angulis minoribus interjectis. Corolla. 
Petala 5: ungues longit. ealycis, margine aucti: limbus planus, 
speciosus: bractee cordate: nectarium componitur ex 2 
denticulis in singuli petali collo enatis. Stamina. Filamenta 
10, longit. tubi corolle, alterna seriora, singulo ungui petalorum 
singulum insidens; antherz incumbentes. Pistillum. Germen 
subcylindraceum. Styli 5, distantes, erecti, longit. staminum. 
Stigmata simplicia. Pericarpium. Capsula cylindracea, unilo- 
cularis, apice dehiscens. Semina plurima, subrotunda.” This 
genus has been taken up by Garcke in the successive editions 
of ‘Deutschlands Flora,’ who uses it in very much the same sense 
as A. Braun. Engler and Prantlt divide Lychnis into two 
subgenera, Hu-lychnis and Coronaria. If we consider each of 
these as a genus, Lychnis in this very limited sense will almost 
exactly correspond with the Hedone ¢ of Loureiro, who recorded 
I. coronata under the name of Hedone sinensis. 
We come now to the Silene group, including the species in 
which the capsule is plurilocular at the base. The species 
referable to this group can be divided into two sections :—(1) 
those in which the capsule dehisces by twice as many teeth as 
there are styles, and which include Silene, Linn. (sensi limitato), — 
and some species of Lychnis with plurilocular capsules, for 
which Reichenbach proposed the genus Eudianthe§; and 
* Flora (1843), p. 368. 
t Die Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Theil i iii (1889), 1b, p- 73. 
t Fl. Cochinch., p. 351. 
§ Nom., p. 206 (1841). 
