48 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
antiquins.” Where a correct and suitable name has thus been in general 
circulation for nearly 70 years, nothing is to be gained by substituting for 
it an obscure and unsuitable name which happens to occur in an almost 
forgotten flora published less than a year before. The citation as given in 
Rohrbach’s synonymy of the species is erroneous, being the page of the 
‘ English Flora’ (1824), instead of the correct. one of the ‘ Flora Britannica ’ 
(1800). 
Geogr. limits.—N. and E. Siberia. 
S. Hindostan. 
W. Ireland; county of Kerry (Moore, Cybele 
Hibernica). 
26. SILENE commutata, Guss., Fl. Sicule Prodr., i. p. 499 
(1827), et Fl. Sicule Syn., i. p.- 485; Cusin et Ansb., Herb. Fl. 
Frang., iv. (1869), t. 554; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 86 (S. Cucubalus 
var. commutata). 
Caules ascendentes, simplices vel e basi ramosi, robusti, 
glabri. Folia glauca glabra, inferiora ovata interdum ciliata, 
intermedia subcordato-ovata, superiora elliptica vel ovato- 
lanceolata, omnia longe mucronata margine cartilaginea ; 
bractew herbacew foliis conformes minores, prophylla scariosa,. 
Flores, etiam alares, longe pedicellati, sub anthesi nutante:;, 
in cymam corymbosam dispositi. Calyx ovoideus umbilicatus;, 
dentibus ovato-triangularibus obtusis. Petala alba, unguibus 
superne dilatatis subexsertis, lamind obovataé biloba, lobis 
oblongo-linearibus, coroné ad duo tubercula reducta. Capsuld 
ovoideo-globosa carpophorum ter superans. Semina granulata 
dorso faciebusque plano-subconvexa. 4 
A S. inflaté differt foliis latioribus basi seepe cordatis, calyc} 
minus globoso, seminibus granulatis. 
B. Lonaironia, Willk. et Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp., iii. (1878"}) 
Folia omnia basi attenuata lanceolato-linearia longe acutate }, 
superiora e basi rotundata longe acuminata. Flores magni. | 
Geogr. limits. —N. Corsica (Pouzolz, ex Gren. et Godr., Fl. ¢ 
France, i. p. 202). | 
S. Cyprus (Kotschy, ex Boiss., Fl. Orient., vi 
p- 629). 
E. Near Elizabethpol, in Trans - Caucas®js 
(Hohenacker, ex Ledeb., Fl. Rossica, Mi 
W. Gibraltar (Willk. et Lanye, Prodr. Ft. 
ITisp., iii. p. 669). 
