414 
** Annual or biennial. 
245 S. orcHY pea (Lin. fil. suppl. 241.) plant clammy ; stem 
branched, pubescent; leaves ovate, ciliated, lower ones on short 
footstalks; flowers in dense corymbs; calyx long clavated ; 
petals déeply 2-lobed, furnished with a lobe on each side at the 
base, crowned with bifid entire appendages. ©.H. Native of 
the Levant and the Grecian Islands. Smith, fl. grec. t. 427. 
Calyx and petals rose-coloured. The petals have the appear- 
ance of the labellum of some species of Orchis. The S. Atdcion 
of Murr. p. 413. no. 203. has been considered by many botanists 
identical with this species, but it is truly distinct. It ought, 
however, to have been placed in the present section. 
Orchis-like-petalled Catchfly. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1781. 
Pl, 4 to 1 foot. 
246 S. pseu‘po-atocion (Desf. atl. 1. p. 353.) plant clammy $ 
stem much branched ;-eleaves glabrous, lower ones obovate- 
spatulate ; flowers in lax corymbs; calyx long clavated; petals 
very entire, linear, crowned. ©. H. Native of the north of 
Africa. - Petals rose-coloured. 
False-Atocion Catchfly. Fl. Ju. July. Clt.1820. Pl.ito 3 ft. 
247 S. cri'spa (Poir. dict. 7. p. 162.) root slender; stem 
erect, almost simple, hairy ; leaves oblong-linear, obtuse, with 
curled spinulose margins ; flowers solitary, disposed in close 
bundles ; calyx long, clavated ; petals bifid. ©.H. Native of 
Barbary. Flowers pink? 
Curled-leaved Catchfly. Fl. July, Sept. Pl. 1 foot. 
248 S. Arme'‘ria (Lin. spec. 601.) plant quite smooth, glau- 
cous ; stem branched ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, rather cordate at 
the base ; flowers in corymbose panicles; calyx long, clavated ; 
petals obcordate, crowned. ©. H. Native of France and 
Switzerland. In England in fields, or on banks, or on old walls, 
a doubtful native. Smith, engl. bot. t. 1398. Fl. dan. t. 559. 
Cucibalus fasciculatus, Lam. Flowers pink. 
Var. B, alba (D. C. prod. 1. p. 384.) flowers white. 
Sweet-William or Lobel’s Catchfly. Fl. July, Sep. Pl. 1 to 
1} foot. 
249 S. Lercnenretpia'na (Baumg, stirp. trans. 1. p. 398.) 
glabrous; stem filiform, decumbent; leaves oblong or linear- 
lanceolate, cauline ones ovate-lanceolate, quite smooth, rather 
crenulated ; panicie simple, corymbose, few-flowered ; petals 
emarginate, crowned. ©.H. Native of Transylvania on the 
Alps. Flowers red ? 
Lerchenfeld’s Catchfly. Pl. decumbent. 
250 S. Srece‘r1 (Baugm. stirp. trans. 1. p. 400.) stem 
erect, simple, furrowed ; radical leaves numerous, oblong-lan- 
ceolate, channelled, stalked; cauline leaves 2, linear; flowers 
terminal, solitary, or 2-3 in an umbel; calyx clavated, campa- 
nulate ; petals obcordate, crowned? ©? H. Native of Tran- 
sylvania on the Alps about Rodno. Flowers pink ? 
Sieger’s Catchfly. Fl. June, July. Pl. 4 to 1 foot. 
251 S. conce’sta (Sibth. and Smith, prod. fi. greece. p. 300.) 
plant pubescent ; stem rather branched, nakedish, rather clammy 
near the top; leaves obovate, obtuse, green, stalked, crowded at 
the base of the stem; flowers disposed in dense tufted corymbs; 
calyx very long, clavated; petals 2-parted, naked. ©. H. 
Native of the Pyrenees and Greece. Flowers greenish. 
Cronded-flowered Catchfly. Fl. July, Sept. Clt. 1818. Pl. 
1 to 14 foot. 
252 S. compa’cta (Fisch. in Horn. hafn. 1. p. 417.) plant 
glabrous, glaucous ; stem erect, branched ; leaves ovate-cordate, 
sessile, with 2 large ones like an involucre near the corymb, ap- 
pearing as if they were connate ; bracteas narrow, shorter than the 
pedicels ; flowers crowded into dense corymbs; calyx very long, 
clavated ; petals oboval, entire, crowned. &. H. Native of Rus- 
sia, S. Arméria, Bieb, fl. taur. no. 837. Flowers pink. This 
CARYOPHYLLEZ. VI. SILENE. 
VIL. Viscarta. 
is very like S. Arméria, but easily distinguished by its entire 
etals. 
P Compact-flowered Catchfly. Fl. July. Clt. 1810. Pl. 1) ft. 
253 S. peErroLta ta (Otth, mss. in D. C. prod. 1. p. 384.) 
plant very smooth, glaucous ; stems slender, filiform, almost 
simple; leaves roundish, perfoliate ; flowers in capitate corymbs, 
with a 1-leaved: concave involucrum, which is larger than the 
leaves; calyx rather inflated, oblong; petals small. &. H. 
Native of the Levant. Cucùbalus chloræfòlius, Poir. dict. 2. 
p- 416. Flowers red? 
Perfoliate Catchfly. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1817. Pl. 1} foot. 
254 S. UNDULATIFÒLIA (Mor. ex Spreng. syst. append. p. 
182.) stem erect, glabrous; leaves spatulate, oblong, obtuse, 
waved, smooth ; flowers in terminal fascicles; calyx smooth, 
coloured ; petals 2-lobed. ©. H. Native of Sardinia. Flowers 
red. 
Wavy-leaved Catchfly. Fi. June, July. Pl. 1 foot. 
255 S. ra‘ripa (Link. ex Spreng. syst. 2. p. 406.) stem 
erect, nearly simple, villous, clammy ; leaves ovate, acute, also 
villous and clammy ; flowers tern, terminal, peduncled, erect ; 
calyx cylindrical. &. H. Native of Portugal. This plant 
ought perhaps to be placed in section Siphonomorpha. 
- Feetid Catchfly. Pl. 1 foot? 
+ 4 plant belonging to section Behendntha, which ought to 
follow S. angustif dlia, no. 29, p. 400. 
256 S. Dovera‘su (Hook. fl. bor. amer. p. 88.) pubescent; 
stems erect, flexuous, slender; leaves remote, long, linear ; 
flowers panicled; calyx obovate, at length inflated, striated, 
pubescent; petals bifid. 2%. H. Native of North America 
above the grand rapids of the Columbia, and on the western 
declivity of the Rocky Mountains. Flowers white. 
Douglas’s Catchfly. Pl. 1 foot. 
Cult. The few green-house kinds of this genus thrive well 
in arich light soil, and young cuttings of the shrubby species, 
planted under a hand-glass, strike root readily. The hardy her- 
baceous kinds only require to be planted in the open border, but 
the dwarfer species are well adapted for rock-work. Some of 
them will not live long unless kept in pots, as alpines, that they 
may be sheltered with ease in the winter, particularly Silène 
cordifòlia perfoliàia, Catesbe‘a, Virginica, acaúlis, quadriden- 
tata, rupéstris, glaucifòlia, règia, pumilio, pusilla, Pennsylvá- 
nica, &c.; these may be grown in a mixture of loam and peat, 
as well as those marked frame. The seeds of the hardy annual 
and biennial kinds only require to be sown in the beginning of 
April where they are intended to remain. All the species may 
be easily increased by seeds, but all the truly perennial kinds 
are easier increased by dividing the plants at the root in spring. 
The sections Nanosiléne, Stphonomorpha, Rupifraga, and Atocion, 
contain the most elegant species. 
VII. VISCA'RIA (from viscus, bird-lime ; because the stems 
of the plants are covered with clammy gluten.) Roebler. | 
Lin. syst. Decéndria, Pentagynia. Calyx cylindrical, 
clavated at the apex, 5-toothed, naked. Petals 5, unguiculated, 
with scales in the. throat. Stamens 10. Styles naturally 5. 
Capsule 5-celled. Anthophorum long. Evergreen tufted plants, 
with glassy leaves, and long clustered or corymbose racemes 
of red or white flowers. 
1 V. vurea ris (Roehl.) stem viscid about the joints ; petals 
slightly cloven; leaves linear-lanceolate, fringed at the base. 
4. H. Native throughout. the whole of the north of Europe 
in dry meadows and in fissures of rocks. In Britain on Arthur $ 
seat, and on rocks by the hermitage a mile south of Edinburgh ; 
on the sides of Craig Wreidhin, Montgomeryshire, &c. Lychnis 
viscaria, Lin. spec. 625. Smith, engl. bot. 788. Fl. dan. t- 
