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MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 979) 
Facies S. Behen a qua differt inflorescentia, calyce haud 
venoso-reticulato, capsulaé angustiore calycem distendente, 
petalisque. 
Geogr. limits —N. Epirus, in Turkey, Chodzes (1879). 
S. and E. Nome of Messenia, in Greece. 
W. Ionian Isles; Cephalonia. 
_ 44. Stvene picnotoma, Hhrh., Bettr., vii. p. 144; Reichb., Ic. 
Fl. Germ. Helv., n. 5071; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 94. 
A. iBertca, Bieb., Fl. Taur. Cauc., i. p. 335 (sp.); Rohrd., 
Monogr., p. 94. Calyx glabrescens. 
Adde syn. 8. nocturna, Pall., Tabl. Taur., p. 50. 
Some specimens found in 1880 near Deventer, in Holland, beyond the 
geographical limits, were probably introduced. 
Geogr. limits.—N. Moravia, in Austria. 
W. Montpellier, in S. France. 
S. and #H. Prov. of Talysch, in Trans- 
Caucasia. 
45. 8. racemosa, Otth, in DO. Prodr., i. p. 384; Sibth., Fl. 
Greca, v. t. 414 (S. divaricata); Rohrb., Monogr., p. 95 (S. 
dichotoma var. racemosa). 
Caulis pluries et divaricatim dichotomus, pilis crispis canes- 
Folia oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, in petiolum barbato- 
bractese membranaces.  Inflorescentize 
Calyx breviter cylindricns, fructifer 
ovato-oblongus, nervis viridibus, dentibus ovato-lanceolatis, 
acutis, membranaceo-marginatis, setosis. Petala alba, rarius 
purpurea, bipartita, lobis obovatis, appendicibus minimis 
Capsula ovata carpophorum glabrum ter quaterve 
Semina rugoso-tuberculata, dorso subcanaliculata, 
eens. 
villosum attenuata ; 
rami divaricato-ramosi. 
obtusis. 
superans. 
faciebus plana. 
Syn. S. Thirkeana, C. Koch, in Linnea, xix. (1847) p. 56. 
f. BIGIBBOSA, mihi. Corona minima, appendicibus ad duas 
squamulas vel gibbos reductis. 
Syn. S. dichotoma, Sibth., Fl. Greca, v. p. 10, t. 413; S. 
sessiliflora, Poir., Encyc. Suppl., v. p. 154, et Herb.; S. Sibthor- 
piana, Reichd., Fl. Germ. Exc., p. 815 (in nota) ; s. racemosa 
var. Sibthorpiana, Boiss., Fl. Orient., i. p. 589. 
Species a S. dichotomdé racemis longis laxis divaricatis, 
calyce 8-10 mm. tantum longo, petalis profundius bipartitis, 
capsula ovata, differre videtur. 
