( 1997 ) 
SILENE SUPINA (a.) NARROW-LEAVED 
ProcuMBenT CaTcHFLy. 
TRAE He ET TT He eae he 
Class and Order. 
Decanpria TriGyniA. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 1-phyllus, ventricosus. Petala 5, unguiculata, Caps. 
supera, semitrilocularis, apice dehiscens, polysperma. : 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
SILENE supina ; petalis bifidis, pedunculis alternis subuni- 
floris, calycibus oblongis coloratis viscidulis, thecapodio 
_,_ bis capsula longiore. ; 3 
(«.) folits linearibus canaliculatis canescentibus basi ciliatis. 
(B.) foliis latioribus planis viridibus. 
SILENE supina ; petalis bifidis, calycibus alternis pedunculatis 
oblongis : dentibus acutis, fcliis linearibus mucronatis 
hirtis, caulibus basi ramosis procumbentibus. Flor. taur. 
caucas |. p. 336, : 
Descr. Stem suffruticose, procumbent, branched at the 
lower part. Branches assurgent, about a high, white, 
woolly. Leaves linear, channelled, canescent, but scarcely hairy 
except a few cilia at the base. Peduncles axillary, alternate, 
mostly one- sometimes two- or three-flowered. Calyx very © 
long, somewhat swelling upward, viscid, ten-angled : ar 
coloured, hairy. Petals white within, greenish without: border 
divided halfway down: laciniz divaricate, rolled in at the edges 
during the day, and reflexed at night: claw margined, the 
upper part dilated into a small truncated corona. Stamens 
exserted, shorter than the s. Styles at first included, but 
after the deflorescence of the anthers growing out longer 
_ than the filaments now curled up: Germen oblong ovate, 
supported on a pedicle twice or three times its own gt. 
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