110 MR. F. N. WILLIAMS ON THE GENUS SILENE. 
Geogr. limits —N. Mt. Kopaonik, near Kruschewatz, in Servia. 
: S. and H#. Petrov Han, in the Balkans, N. 
Bulgaria, Velenovsky (1887). 
W. Herzegovina (ex Nym., Consp. Fl. Eur., 
p- 89). 
B. Species annue. 
a. Inflorescentiee rami valde ineequales, altero in florem unum 
reducto, ita ut flores in foliorum axillis geminati esse videantur ; 
interdum inflorescentia superne scorpioidea. 
Series 7. Nicwenses. 
a. Calyx fructifer apice contractus. 
192. StLENE RAMOSISSIMA, Desf., Fl. Atlant., i. (1798) p. 354; 
Willk., Ic. Descr. Pl. Nov. Hisp., i. p. 54, t. 394; Rohrb., 
Monogr., p. 151. 
B. GRAVEOLENS, Duf. (sp.) in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vi. 
(1860) p. 242. 
Flores Jonge pedunculati, axillaribus solitariis erectis, valde 
odorati, vespertini. Calycis dentes basi membran4 conjuncti. 
Petala rosea nec alba, lineari-bipartita. 
Desfontaines erroneously marked his plant as perennial, and this misled 
Dufour into describing S. graveolens as a distinct species. 
Geogr. limits—N. Near Salon, 
i. Near Tarragona, 
S. Near Oran, in Algeria. 
W. Morocco. 
193. S. crverna, Desf., Fl. Atlant., i. (1798) p. 355; Coss., 
Tlustr. Fl. Atlant., fase. iv. (1890) p. 138, t. 89. 
Adde: Caulis 30-60-centim. longus, virgatus, superne vel a 
medio dichotome ramosus, seepe fere a basi ramos axillares cauli 
conformes emittens, sub lente crebre punctiformi-puberulus 
pilis eglandulosis. Bracte herbacew. Culyx fructifer superne 
clavatus infra capsulam angustatus. Capsula carpophoro pubes- 
cente paullum longior. Semina compressa, faciebus profunde 
auriculiformi-excavata, dorso plana granulata. 
bin Catalonia, Spain. 
Rohrbach had not seen the plant, but trusting apparently to Soyer- 
Willemet’s description, placed it after S. Kremeri: as the fructiferous 
calyx is contracted at the mouth, it should come after S. ramosissima. 
Hab. Algeria. 
