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Gypsophila repens. Creeping 

 Gypsophila. 



Oafs and Order. 

 Decandria Digynia. 



Generic Characler. 



Cal. l-phyllus, campanulatus, angulatus. Petala 5, ovata, 

 feflllia. Cap/, globofa, l-locularis. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



GYPSOPHILA repens ; foliis lanceolatis, ftaminibus corolla 

 emarginata brevioribus. Sp. PL 581. Reich. 2. 324. 

 Willd. 2. 662. Mart. Mill. Die?, n. I. Hort. Kew. ed. 

 alt. 3. p. 74. Jacq. Auftr. 5. p. 4. t. 407. 



GYPSOPHILA foliis linearibus carnofis triquetris, ftamini- 

 bus petalis emarginatis brevioribus. Ger. Prov. 407. /. 15. 

 Vail I. Dan ph. 3. p. 602. 



GYPSOPHILA repens. Lam. et Decand. Flor. Franc. 4. 



P- 73 6 - 

 SAPONARIA radice lignofa maxima, foliis glaucis pulpofis, 



petalis emarginatis. Hall. Helv. n. 905. 

 CARYOPHYLLUS faxatilis foliis gramineis minor. Baub. 



Pin. 211. 

 SYMPHYTUM petrseum f. Gypfophyton. Mai. Hircyn. p. 



115. 



The flowers of this fpecies are with us nearly white, and, 

 except that they acquire fomewhat of a red colour as they die, 

 nave none of the purple tinge of projlrata. The colour may 

 however be variable. Our prefent plant bears its flowers more 

 scattered, the peduncles being longer, lefs divided, and thofe at 

 lhe d ivifio n s of the Item quite Ample, Perhaps the moft decifive 



characler 



