Tab. 5400. 



SILENE Elizabeths. 



Elizabethan Catchfy. 



Nat. Ord. (JARYOPHYLLEyE. — DecANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



Gen. Char. Calyx inflato-, ovoicleo-, campanulato-, v. elongato-tubulosus. 

 5-dentatus v. quinquefidus, 10-nervius (nervis lateralibus sepalorura adjacentium 

 coalitis), rarius sequaliter et parallele oo-nervius. Petala 5, uugue angusto ; 

 lamina integra bifida v. rarius laciniata, basi ssepius bisquamata. Stamina 10. 

 Torus in gynophorura stipitiforme plus minus elongatus, rarius abbreviatus. 

 Ovarium 1-loculare v. ima basi co-ovulatum ; styli vulgo tres. Capsula apice in 

 dentes v. valvas breves 6 rarius 3 dehiscens. Semina umbilieo marginali affixa ; 

 embryo periphericus. — Herbse annum v. perennes, erectee, ceespitosce, decumbentes 

 v. diff'uso-scandentes. Mores solitarii v. varie cymosi, seepe spicas unilaterales 

 thyrsum paniculamue terminalem formantes. Semina opaca, tuberculata v. echinata 

 (rar'mime IceviaJ. Benth. et Hook. 



Silene (Elisanthe) Elizabeths ; perennis pubescenti-viscosa ascendens 1-7-flora, 

 foliis lanceolatis acutis, calyce tubuloso mox ventricoso, petalis flabellato- 

 bilobis lacero-denticulatis calyce duplo-longioribus, unguis corona multi- 

 seta, capsula ovoidea multiloculari, thecaphoro brevissimo crasso. Walp. 



Silene Elizabethan. " Jan, Catal. ad ann. 1832. p. 32. adn. ComoU. Ft. Comens. 

 v. 3. p. 164." Reichenb. PL Critic, v. 10. i. t. 901. /. 1221. " Cesati, 

 Iconogr. Stirp. Ital.fasc. 5.17. cum tabula'' 1 (on the authority of Walpers). 

 Reichenb. Ic. Ft. Germ, et Helvet. v. 6. t. 261. n. 5116 (no descr.). Walp. 

 Repert. Bot. Syst. v. 5. p. 82. 



For the possession of this very handsome and rare hardy per- 

 ennial the Royal Gardens are indebted to Professor Reichen- 

 bach, fil., late of Leipzig, now, happily for the cause of science, 

 Director of the Botanic Garden of Hamburg. It is a native of 

 Italy, according to Walpers, "inter fissuras rupium montium 

 Grigna a Campione, Camisola et in Barbisino, in valle Saxina 

 ditionis Lariensis, necnon in valle Triumplina ditionis Brixiensis." 

 I am unfortunate in possessing few of the works quoted above, 

 and I rely for the majority of the authors upon Walpers' Re- 

 pertoriuin, from which it appears to have been first noticed by 

 Professor Jan, in 1832. Reichenbach's valuable works indeed 



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