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SAPONARIA olutinas, Biebs Fl Taner. Oniid) 0. EE p. 922. 
“ Cent. 2. t. 66.” De Cand Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 365, 
Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 374. 
SILENE Armeria. _ Pall. Ind. Aa ¢ Bieb. ) 
Descr. Plant apparently biennial, from one to two feet 
high when cultivated, with a roundish erect stem, having 
many, 5 anges reddish- Fie se branches, and, as is the 
whole plant, clothed with glandular, viscid hairs, much 
fewer upon the leaves, especially upon the lower ones. 
Leaves opposite, ovate; the uppermost ones cordate, ses- 
sile and subperfoliate ; those at the base attenuated into a 
broad, flat petiole ; all of them peice at the margin, and 
having 
* Saponaria—from sapo, soap. Because the bruised leaves of one species, 
S. officinalis, are said to form a lather when agitated in water, 
