86 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
According to Cutanda (‘ Fl. Madrit.,’ p. 178), S. ¢ejedensis occurs also 
on the Sierra de Guadarrama, near Lozoya, in the prov. of New Castile. 
Willkomm says that he has not seen the specimens, and he thinks that this 
plant is scarcely likely to be found in the alpine districts of the elevated 
country in Central Spain, and recommends further observations in the 
locality mentioned, with the probability of its being identified with another 
species. 
Boissier’s ‘ Voyage Botanique,’ containing the results of his exploration 
of the country in the year 1837, was issued in two volumes, with excellent 
coloured plates, during the years 1839-45. 
Rohrbach considers Kotschy’s specimens from Mt. Kuh-Daéna, in South- 
West Persia (exs., n. 768), as a deviation from the type, and includes 
them under lusus 2. 
128. Streng MevanprioipEs, Lange, Diagn. Pl. Penins. Iber., um 
Kjobn. Vidensk. Middel., 1877-78, p. 33; Willk., Illustr. Fil. 
Hisp., i. t. 60. 
Caules 16-25 centim. longi, adscendentes vel diffusi, glutinoso- 
et crispulo-villosi. Folia rosularia elliptico-lanceolata, in 
petiolum alato-dilatatum breviter angustata, caulina elliptico- 
ovata, basi angustato-amplexicauli-subconnata, summis ovatis, 
acuminata. Flores in dichasium regulare repetitum vel ter 
dichotomum dispositi, pedunculo centrali quam calyx longiore. 
Calyx primo cylindricus, dein ovato-campanulatus, ampliatus, 
basi truncatus, glanduloso-pilosus, dentibus subulato-acuminatis. 
Petala violaceo-rosea venis saturatioribus, bifida. Capsula 
carpophoro 3-4-plo longior. 
Semina reniformia, tuberculata, 
dorso plana. 
Hab. Bussaco, near Coimbra, Portugal; and Orense, i” 
Galicia, Spain. 
129. S. caveasica, Boiss., Fl. Orient., i. p. 622; Rohrb., 
Monogr., p. 131. 
S. vallesia longius distat, indumento glanduloso, foliis 
caulinis longis, floribus longe pedunculatis, et calyce latiore : 
Ledebour autem (FI. Ross., i, p. 321) dicit, “ planta caucasica 
spontanea ab occidentali non diversa videtur.” 
B. MULTIFLORA, Rupr., Fl. Caucasi, p. 187; Boiss., Fl. Orient., 
snpph., p. 99. 
Major. Flores 3-5-terminales, conferti vel in 2-3-verl- 
ciflastra remota dispositi: calyce seepe eglanduloso. 
Syn. S. repens, Ledeb., Fl. Rossica, i. p. 308, quoad Armeniam 
et Caucasum. 
