50 MR. Ff. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
in which the synonymy is already sufficiently involved. In S. lacera, 
which is given as a variety of this species, the ovary is not trilocular at the 
base, so that it must be transferred to Melandryum, and appears to be near 
Melandryum Elizabethe. 
Hab. In the mountains of Lazistan, Russian Armenia, and 
the Caucasus. 
30. Smene campanutata, S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad., x. 
(1875) p. 341; B.L. Robinson, l.c., xxviii. (1898) p. 187. 
Caulis erectus, simplex vel apice dichotome ramosus, glandu- 
loso-pubescens. Folia ovata vel lanceolata. Flores solitarii vel 
pauci, nutantes, breviter pedicellati. Calyx viridis, campanu- 
latus, profunde dentatus, superne reticulato-venosus, dentibus 
late ovatis, obtusiusculis. Petala angusta 4-partita, lobis ad 
medium bifidis seu lateralibus integris vel emarginatis, appen- 
dicibus oblongis carnosis integris. Filamenta villosa exserta. 
Capsula suborbicularis, breviter stipitata. 
a. LATIFOLIA. Folia ovata acuta. Petala albo-viridula. i 
Syn. 8. campanulata var. Greenei, S. Wats. herb. ap. B. Lj 
Robinson, l.c. 
Hab. Cafionville, in Oregon, and Yreka, in California. 
B. ANGUSTIFOLIA. Planta leviter glanduloso-pubescens. Foli« 
lanceolata acuminata. Petala carnea. 
Hab. Mendocino County and Humboldt County, in Nort}; 
California. 
J 
According to Robinson the broad-leaved is the commoner form, so tha 
this is here considered as the type of the species. 
Subgenus II. CONOSILENE. 
Calyx 20-30-vel 60-nervius, nervis haud anastomosantibus|if| 
fructifer e basi ampliata, apicem versus attenuatus. Floregit| 
in dichasio simplici vel composito, seepe ramo altero abbreviat#il 
et alterius in axillé ramo accessorio evoluto, rarius flor 
solitarii. Herbs annue. 
a. Calyx 20-nervius. 
31. S. ammopuita, Bozss. et Heldr. , Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. § 
vill. p. 82; Boiss., Fl. Orient., suppl. p- 90; Rohrb., Monog 
p. 89. 
Hab. The islands of Crete and Gaidaronisos. 
AIST eee em ea 
ee 
ie 
Maio 
