are before me, but unfortunately the plate referred to in the 

 ' Plantse Criticse' is wanting in my copy, and that in the Icones 

 Fl. Germ, et Helvet. lacks description and remarks. With us it 

 blossoms in the open border in July, and the tufted habit of 

 the plant, with its numerous large flowers, have a charming ef- 

 fect. Silene pumilio is considered its affinity, but the two are 

 very distinct. 



Descr. Perennial. Stems tufted, erect or ascending, viscidly 

 pubescent, as well as the foliage, a span or more high. Leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, spreading, lower ones two to three inches long, 

 becoming gradually smaller upwards. Panicle terminal, dicho- 

 tomous. Calyx scarcely an inch long, tubular, at first cylin- 

 drical, at length oval and bladdery, pale dull-green, prettily 

 veined and margined with purple. Flowers an inch and a half 

 in diameter; petals bright rose-colour; claws white below, 

 crowned with three to four long setse ; lamina cuneato-flabellate, 

 crenato-dentate at the margin, emarginate so as to be two-lobed ; 

 stamens shorter than the claws of the petals. Gy nop/tore very 

 short. Styles three. 



Fig. 1. Petal and stamen. 2. Pistil : — magnified. 



