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inequalibus paucifloris. Calyx ovato-ellipticus umbilicatus, 
dentibus late triangularibus obtusiusculis. Petala alba bifida, 
appendicibus bilobis. Capsula ovato-globosa carpophorum 
ter superans. Semina rotundata tuberculatomuricata, dorso 
convexa, faciebus plana. 
AS. inflata differt presertim inflorescentia seriore, calyce 
minus inflato, petalis coronatis, caulibus humilioribus magis 
diffusis, foliis angustioribus glaucescentibus. 
Geogr. limits—N. and E. Depart. of Rhéne; near Lyons. 
S. Cadaques, in prov. Catalonia. 
W. Bielsa, in prov. Aragon. 
25. Sitene tata, Smith, Fl. Brit., p. 467 (1800); Syme, 
Engl. Botany, ed. III. ii. p. 56, t. 199; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 84 
(S. Cucubalus). 
Adde syn. S. amcena, Huds., Fl. Anglica, ed. I. p. 164; 
S. crispata, Stev.; S. Cserei, Schur (non Baumg.); S. Ante- 
lopum, Steud., Nom. Bot., ed. II. i. p. 450; 8. sersuensis, Pomel, 
Nouv. Mat. Fl. Atlant., p- 209; S. vulgaris, Garcke, Fl. Nord. 
Mitt. Deutschl., ed. IX. p. 64 (1869). 
8. ctutara, Lange, in Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel., 1865 (1866), 
P. M1 (Pugill. Pi., p. 306); Willk. et Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp., 
ii. p. 668. 
Folia utrinque puberula, margine aspero-ciliata, inferiora 
elliptico-ovata. Petala rosea, calyce parum longiora. 
. Syn. 8. puberula, Jord. in Bor. Fl. Cent. France, ed. IIf. 
i. p. 94, 
% ALPINA, Rohrb., Monogr., p. 87; S. alpina, Thomas, Cat. 
(1837), p. 45; Willk., Ic. Descr. Pl. Rar. Hisp., i. p. 38, t. 23. 
Adde syn. S. brachyantha, Schur (non Schott). 
Ez syn. 8. glareosa, est species propria. 
‘aia substitute for this old-established name of the plant that of S. Cucu- 
silicisd W; only indefensible, but inaccurate. Rohrbach, in his monograph, 
neighh ’ibel 8 name for the species, but as the specific name is that of a 
Were other genus, it is hardly admissible, as well as pedantic ; even if it 
inflatus Sevan tes a still older name (by three years) is “ Cucubalus 
Smith . nae ¢ Prodr. Stirp.,’ p. 302), published in 1796, which name 
brbechts in transferring the species to Silene. With respect to 
(‘Journ Li change of name, the following note by the late Mr. Ball 
triviale - inn. Soc.,’ xvi. 1877, p. 356), is much to the point :—“ Nomen 
i solo a pnnibus fere botanicis receptum cl. Rohrbach infauste mutavit. 
Vv . sntiquitatis jure legamur, Silene vulgaris erit. Nomen ‘ Behen 
ms” (in Moench, Method.), est enim Wibeliano pluribus annis 
