104, MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
Ex affinitate S. cordifolie et S. lazice, floribus solitaris et 
calyce post anthesin nutante insignis. 
The spelling of the name of this species has been slightly altered, as the 
name selected by Boissier is pre-occupied by a North American species 
described by the late Sereno Watson in 1875. 
Hab. Mt. Sindjar, in Mesopotamia. 
177. SILENE FLAMMULHFOLIA, Steud. in Schimp., Iter Abyss., LU. 
n. 676, et A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 43 (1847); Rohrb., 
Monogr., p. 146. 
Hab. Mt. Silke, in the district of Semen, Abyssinia. 
B. CANESCENS, mthi. 
Planta incano-pubescens ; calycis nervis scabro-pubescentibus 
inter nervos subglabris, dentibus triangulari-ovatis, acutis. 
Syn. S. flammulefolia, Barbey, Pl. Arabic. Schweinf. (1889), 
in Herb. Kew. 
Hab. Gebel Schibam, above Menacha, in Arabia Felix. 
8. Flores in dichasio laxo quasi pseudoracemosi. 
178. S. THEssatonica, Boiss. et Heldr., Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., 
Ser. IT. i. p. 74. 
Velutino-canescens superne glanduloso-viscida, basi suffru- 
tescens. Caules adscendentes e basi ramosi superne breviter 
ramulosi. Folia rosularum inferioraque oblongo-spathulata, in 
petiolum attenuata, superiora linearia; bractese late albo- 
marginate ciliate. Florum pedicelli calycem equantes. Calyx 
cylindricus glanduloso-hirsutus, fructifer clavatus, evenius, 
striis viridibus, dentibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis. Petala ochro- 
lenca bifida, lobis linearibus, appendicibus binis parvis, oyatis, 
obtusis. Capsula oblonga, carpophorum 4-plo superans. Semina 
dorso granulato canaliculata, faciebus plana striata. 
Syn. 8. flavescens var. pluriflora, Griseb. in Herb. Vindob. 
S. flavescens, lusus 2, Rohrb., Monogr., p. 146. 
S. flavescens var. thessalonica, Bodss., I'l. Orient., suppl., 
p. 106. 
(reogr. limits—N. Mt. Chortiasch, above the city of Salonica, 
in Rumelia. 
i. Island of Thasos, off the coast of Rumelia. 
S. and W. Mt. Hagion Stephanos, in Thessaly, 
Greece, 1885 (Haussknecht, in Mittheil. 
Thiiring. Bot. Ver., Heft v. (1893) p. 48). 
