( 2290 ) 

 Saponaria Vaccaria. Cow Soap-wort. 



C&zss anrf Order. 



Decandria Digynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 1-phyllus nudus. Petala 5, unguiculata. Caps, ob- 

 ionga, 1-locularis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Saponaria Vaccaria; calycibus pyramidatis quinquangula- 



ribus, foliis ovatis acuminatis sessilibus. Sp. PL 585. 



WUld. 2. p. 668. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. S. p. 77. Gcertn. 



Sem. 2. p. 234. t. 130. /. 7. Lam. Illustr. t. 376. /. 2. 



Pollich Pal. n. 408. Decand. Fl. franc. 4. p. 737. //«//. 



//is*. «. 907. 

 Gypsophila Vaccaria; foliis ovatis amplexicaulibus gia- 



berrimis, petalis emarginatis erosis. Smith Prodr. 



Fl. Grcsc. 1. p. 279. 

 Lychnis Vaccaria. Scop. Cam. 1. w. 511. 

 Lychnis segetum rubra, foliis PerfoliataB. Bauh. Pin. 204. 



Raj. Hist. 2. p. 999. Tourn. Inst. 335. 

 Vaccaria. Dod. Pempt. p. 104. Bauh. Hist. 3. part. 2. 



p. 354. Ger. emac. 492. 

 Myagrum III. Tabern. Kreuterbuch p. 1253. ed. Basil 



1664. 

 Isatis sylvestris Vaccaria dicta. Lob. ic. 352. /'. 2. 

 Lychnis segetum Vaccaria rubra dicta. Park. Theatr. I. 

 p. 633. 



Botanists are not agreed to what genus this plant should 

 be referred, but most of them since his time have followed 

 Linnams in referring it to Saponaria ; Sir James Smith has 

 however, in his Prodromus of the Grecian Flora, united it 

 with Gypsophila, to which he has probably been induced 



by 



