‘283 | -—-« DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. = 
412, SILENE. L. (Catch-Fly. « Wild-Pink.”) 
Calix cylindric or conic. Petals 5, unguicu- 
_late, generally crowned at the orifice. Capsule 
3-celled. 
Peduncles 1 or many-flowered, axillary, terminal, or 
dichotomal. 
Species. 1. S. quinguevulnera. 2. pensylvanica. 3. 
_ wirginica, 4. Catesbei. Flowers scarlet. 5, regia. Curt. 
a Bot, Mag. Stem tall and erect; leaves broad-ovate, some- 
What asperate; branches trichotomally floriferous; calix 
_long and cylindric, petals generally entire, style and sta- 
mina exserted. Has. Throughout the western states 
sparingly from Ohio to Lower Louisiana, one of the most 
splendid. ‘species in existence. Oss. Root perennial. 
- Stem erect and stout 4 or 5 feet high, much branched, 
_. joints tumid, branches rigid and erect, and as well as the 
_ whole plant pulverulently pubescent and viscid, upper 
leaves acuminate. Flowers large, and bright scarlet, ve- 
ry numerous, dichotomal and terminal. Calix conspicu- 
ously striated. Petals oblanceolate usually entire, appen- 
dices of the orifice distinct. _ = ; 
6. *rotundifolia. Decumbent; stem, calix and margin of 
i the leaves very pilose; leaf dilated-oval, acuminate at each 
extremity; flowers few trichotomal; petals laciniated, 
_ subquadrifid, lateral segments shorter; orifice crowned. 
Has. bya — of Ohio and Tennessee, on the moist 
ledges of rocks; flowering from July to August-. A very 
“singular and beautifal species bi bright scarlet flow- 
ing weak and almost filiform. Leaves nearly smooth ex- 
cepting the margin, ventricosely dilated, and abruptly at- 
tenuated at each extremity; subulately and abruptly acu- 
minate above. Flowers few, almost terminal, simply or 
doubly trichotomal. Calix densely pilose and soft, angu- 
. larly striate, cylindric, smaller towards the base. _ Petals 
_ furnished with the usual appendages at the orifice: hmb 
about half an inch long, almost like that of Lychnis Flos 
cuculi, dilated, and pilose orf the margin,. cleft disti 
_abouthalf way down, each of the segments again subu- 
ivided, besides these there are also 2 other exter- 
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"On the banks of Flint river, Plorida—Dr. Balwyn. Ve- 
