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This plant generally occurs without petals, in which state I 

 discovered it on the White mountains in July, 1816. I have 

 since received it several times from the same place but always in 

 the apetalous state, until the last year, when Messrs. Greene and 

 Little found it there in August with complete flowers. 



188. SILENE. 

 SILENE PENNSYLVANIA. Mich. Catchfly. 



Viscid-pubescent; root leaves wedge form, stem 

 leaves lanceolate ; partial stems few flowered ; petals 

 slightly emarginate, subcrenate. Mich. 



Sometimes called wild pink, from its similarity in habit to some 

 of that genus. Leaves of the root spatulate, acute at top, and 

 tapering into a long base ; those of the stem lanceolate, oppo- 

 site. Flowers in upright, terminal bunches. Calyxes nearly 

 cylindrical, hairy, and exceedingly glutinous. Corollas purplish 

 white ; petals wedge shaped, entire or slightly crenate. Found 

 in dry, sandy soils. June. 

 SILENE ANTIRRHINA. L. Snnpdragon Catchfly. 



Leaves lanceolate, subciliate ; peduncles trifid ; pe- 

 tals emarginate., calyx ovate. 



A slender, tall species which in the day appears destitute of 

 flowers. Stem smooth, erect, a foot high. Leaves opposite, 

 lanceolate, subciliate at base, dotted under a magnifier. Panicle 

 forked, with intermediate flowers. Calyx ovate. Corolla pro- 

 bably nocturnal. I have never found it expanded by day. Dry 

 road sides. July. Annual. 



189. CUCUBALUS. 



CUCUBALUS BEHEN. L. Bladder Campion. 



Calyx nearly globular, smooth, reticulated with 

 veins ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, glaucous, smooth. Sm. 

 Engl. Bot. 



Syn. SILENE INFLATE. Sm. Flor. Brit. 



The inflated, bladder-like calyx at once distinguishes this 

 plant from every thing about it. Radical leaves spatulate, stem 

 leaves opposite, ovate, acute, entire. Stems one or two feet 



