102 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
Syn. S. acaulis var. parviflora, Oth, in DC. Prodr., i. p. 367. 
S. polytrichoides, Zumagi., Fl. Pedem., ii. p. 269 (1860). 
S. acaulis, lusus 2, Rohrb., Monogr., p. 144. 
Hab. Dept. of Alpes-Maritimes in France, and adjacent 
localities in the Spanish Pyrenees (ex Willk. et Lange, Prodr. 
Fl. Hisp., iii.); the Alps of Piedmont, and of the adjacent 
canton of Valais, in Switzerland (ex Nym., Consp. Fl. Kur., 
suppl.) ; near Rodna, in Transsylvania, I’. Porcius (1878). 
Geogr. range.—Arctic and N. temperate zones, north of lat. 35°, 
as far north as lat. 74°, according to Nordenskidld’s ‘ Voyage 
of the Vega’; also in Novaya Zemlya, lat. 73° (Hkstam, 1895). 
172. Sttrns Baumearrent, Schott et Kotschy, Pl. Hasice. 
Transsilv., n. 459; Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ. Helv., n. 5114; Rohrb., 
Monogr., p. 144 (S. dinarica). 
Syn. S. depressa, Baumg., Enum. Stirp. Transsilv., i. (1836) 
p. 404. 
S. dinarica, Spreng., Syst. Veget., ii. p. 405. 
Saponaria Baumgarteni, Janka, in Linnea, xxx. (1859- 
60) p. 559. 
Sprengel’s name is passed over, being bad and inadmissible, as the plant 
does not occur, and has never been found, in the Dinaric Alps. According 
to Kotschy the specific name is founded upon a geographical error, and 
therefore cannot stand. 
Hab. Transsylvania, and the Banat, in Hungary. 
Series 4. Brachypode. 
Species montane caulibus strictis: flores solitarii vel bini 
longissime pedicellati, vel in dichasio simplici laxo; calyx sub 
anthesi clavatus, fructifer oblongus; capsula carpophorum 
multies, raro tantum bis, superans. 
a. Caules florigeri e basi rosule foliorum terminalis lateraliter 
edentes. 
173. 8. Griska, Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. I. vii. p. 88 5 
Rohrb., Monogr., p. 145. 
Jam primo aspectu a SQ. flavescente dignoscenda capsulis 
cernuis. 
The seeds are incorrectly described by Rohrbach ; I have examined and 
compared the seeds of authentic specimens, and their character should be 
amended as follows :—“ Semina tenuiter rugulosa, auriculiformia, compressa, 
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