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XVIII. CARYOPHYLLE^. (Edgewortli & Hook, f.) [Cucuhahs, 



1, C. bacciferus, Lin7i, ; Boiss, FL Orient, i. 657. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir, alt. 5-8000 ft. to Sikkira, alt. 8-12,000 ft. 

 Khasia Mts., at the Boga Pani, alt. 5000 ft., HJ. & T.— Dxstkib. Westwards to SoutU 



Europe ; W, Siberia. ^ . . r i 9 hv 



A rambling herb, more or less pubescent with curly white hairs. Jjeaves 1 I *>y 

 3-1 in., membranous, ciliate, narrowed into the petiole, upper sessile. Flowers drooping; 

 pedicel ^-4 in., tomentose. Calyx ^ in., base rounded; teeth large, broad, subacute, 

 ciliolate ; nerves obscure, veins reticulate. Petals greenish-white, 2-lobed. Anmn 

 didymous. Fruit the size of a pea, black. 



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8. X«VCKNIS, Linn. 



Herbs, with the habit of Silene, but capsule 1-celled and styles usually 5 

 (3_5)._DiSTRiB. Species about 30, natives of Arctic and Temperate northern 

 regions, and of the Andes of S. America. ^ ^ 



The following species of Lijchnh are, with the exception of L. Coronaria, extremely 

 difficult to limit, the characters of habit, nervation of the calyx, form and division ot 

 the petals, and superficial markings of the seed, being all very variable. The division 

 into winged- and wingless seeded is far from good ; the contrabt between the renuoini 

 granulate, and the angled and winged seeds, is indeed strong, but analogy ^^^ith ot e 

 genera would suggest, that some of the wingless species are but forms of wmged one . 

 We cannot follow Rohrbach and others in separating Mtlandryum from Lychnis propt; » 

 the capsule dehiscing variously in the same species, and several true Melandrya having 

 crested seeds. 



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Sect. I. Pseudagrrostemma. Petals with stiff 2-toothed scales at 



the chiw. Capsule 5-valved, valves quite entire. 



1. Zi. Coronaria, Lavik ; uiiifomily softly tomentose with silky wuite 



wool. Bous, FL Orient, i. 658. 



-DisTRiB. W. Asia, 



Kashmir Valley, abundant in groves and fields, Jacquemont^ &c.- 

 S. Europe. 



Stem 1-2 ft., sparingly branched. Leaves 3-5 in., spathulatelanceolate, ^^ 

 oblong. Flowers OT) long pedicels. Calyx |-1 in., turbinate, 10-nerved; teeth . 

 tortcd to the left. Pttals 1 in. nnd upwards, broadly obcordate, red purple 

 subsessile, included. Seeds biconvex, equally striate-tuLerculate. 





.uline 



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 Capsule 



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Petals with membranous scales. Capsule 



II. Melandryuxn. 



4-5-valvedj valves entire ur 2-fid. 



* Stem scape-like, 1- rarely 2-3-flowered. Seeds compressed or angle ; 

 winged, not granulate or tubercled ; wing thick or inflated. 



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Linn. ; stem short glandular-pubescent 1- ^^^^j^ ^^ 

 :ed subglobose with broad purple-brown nerves, p^^^ 



2. Zi. apetala, 



flowered, calyx inflated _.-,^^ ..,,,. ., _ ^.^.^^^ --- 



with a very short emarginate or bifid limb, cari)ophore very short 



M. Falconer! 



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Melandryum aiietaluiu, Kohrb, inLinna^a. xxxvi. 21 

 Ic. 220. 



Alpine Himalaya and Tibet, alt. 12-17,000 ft. ; and to 18,000 ft. m Sikkirn- 

 DisTKUi. Arctic regions, mouniahis of N. Europe, Asia, and America. thtilafe* 



Stems tufted, 2-t) in., often curved. Leaves radical linear-lanceolate or ^P^^|^ (,oq. 

 obtuse or acute ; cauline 1-2 pair. Flowers nodding. Calyx 4-§ in 1^"& "wbichare 

 tracted, more open in fruit, membranous, pale between the broad dark '^*^^^®'^' >ij,cr with 

 ariable in disposition, simple or sparingly braiiched, the secondary free ^'^"^J^^^ and 

 the primary in the short bntad cah'x-teeth. 



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tracted, more open in fruit, membranous, pale between the broad dark nerve8j,^^j 



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Petals excessively variable in len^ 

 breaiih and in the subentire crenate or lobed scales, purplish. Capsule turgid i 



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