DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA, | i Bhs 267 : 
Small plants with opposite and linear mand flowers 
axillary and subcorymbosely terminal. Possesses the ha- 
bit of Arenaria. 
Species. 1.S. annuus. So abundantly patuislized 4 in 
sandy arable fields as to b pace native. — 
An European genus of 3 gee 
I 
ORDER ill.—TRIGYNIA. ; é 
411. CUCUBALBDS. L. (Campion.) 
Calix inflated or campanulate, 5-toothed. 
Petals 5, unguiculate, naked, or partly crowned 
at the orifice. Capsule 3-celled. 
Flowers axillary dichotomal or terminal, often subpa- 
niculate. 3 = 
Srecies. 1.C. Behen. Introduced? 2. *niveus. Up- 
f per part of the stem, divaricate and dichotomous; leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, minutely and pulyerulently 
pubescent, uppermost ovate; calix obtuse, campanulate, 
inflated, subpilose; petals small, reflected, bifid at the ex- 
tremity, claws exserted beyond the calix, nearly naked; 
flowers solitary, dichotomal and terminal. Silene nivea. 
Muhlenberg’s Catalogue. v.s. For the dried specimen I 
am indebted to the friendship of Z. Collins, Fsq. to whom 
it had been communicated. Has. Upon anisland of the 
Susquebannah, near to Columbia—Muhlenberg. Ons. 
Stem nearly smooth and slender. Leaves opposite, about 
2 inches lonz and half aninch wide, sessile. Flowers re- 
‘mote, solitary, ee ee rising from — 
the centre of a pair of | 
honiet Sete ae use, and 
eh able. An ny naked st the once, ex- 
serted, but narrow, limb reflected, scarcel half the length 
Of the calix. Seeds bright brown, su striate and 
rugose. Too nearly allied to C. Behen to 
ee 3. stellatus. Leaves 
Europeans exeeplng. C.spergi “<-* 
