THE HIGH ALPINE FLORA OF BRITAIN iii 



as on Ben Lawers (" Fl. Perthsh." 146). Ben Lawers, 1807 

 (Herb. Kew.). 



Fam. 24. UiMBELLACE^. 



82. Heradeian spho?idylm??i, L. — Ascends to 1006 m. in the 

 Breadalbane district (" FI. Perthsh." 161). Descends to sea-level 

 in Cork. 



Fam. 25. CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 



83. Melajidryum diurnuju^ Fries (1842). — On the cliffs of Cairn 

 Gorm, at 1000 m. (G. C. Druce in " Journ. Bot." 1889, 202). 

 Ascends to 1067 m. on Loch-na-gar (F. B. White in "Scot. Nat." 

 i. 119 [187 1]). Descends to sea-level on Lambay island, off the 

 coast of Dublin (H, C. Hart, 1883). 



Syn. — Lychnis dioica, L., Sp. Plant. 437 (1753), excl. varr, ^ et y ; 

 Lychnis dioica, var. 7-tibra, Weigel, " Fl. Pomerano-Rugica," 85 

 (1769); Lychnis silvestr is, Schkuhr, " Handb." i. 403, t. 124(1791); 

 Saponaria dioica, Moench, Meth. Plant. 76 (1794); Lychnis 

 diimia, Sibth. " Fl. Oxon." 145 (1794); Saponaria dinr7ia, Fenzl, 

 in Endl., "Gen. Plant." 974 (1840). To associate the Linnean 

 specific name (of the aggregate) with Melandryuni would unnecessarily 

 make a new combination, and increase the synonymy. 



84. Silene acaidis, L. — First recorded as a British plant in 

 1641, under the name of " Caryophyllus montanus minimus sive 

 Caryophyllus pumilio alpinus " (Johnson, "Merc. Bot." ii. 18). The 

 earliest locality given is " on the steep and higher rocks of Snowdon 

 Hill in Carnarvonshire " (Ray, " Syn. Meth. Stirp. Brit." 141 [1690]) ; 

 and found almost everywhere on Snowdon by Edward Lloyd (in 

 Gibson's edition of Camden's "Britannia," 1695). Snowdon (J. 

 Turner, 1806, in Herb. Kew.). On the upper ledges of Snowdon 

 everywhere (Banks, 1773, in Herb. Brit.); summit of Snowdon 

 (herb. Mrs. Robinson, in Herb. Brit. — before 1847). Carnedd 

 Dafydd, Carnedd Llewelyn, and Snowdon (J. E. Griffith, " Flora " 

 [1895]). On the summits of the loftiest mountains in Scotland 

 (Smith, "English Fl." ii. 299). On all the elevated mountains of 

 Scotland (Hooker, " Fl. Scotica," 135). "The flowers have no 

 scent, but they constitute one of the most charming ornaments of 

 the green-headed Scottish Alps " (Smith). Ascends to the summits 

 of Ben Lawers (" Fl. Perthsh." 77), Ben Alder (White), Ben 

 Macdhui (Watson, 1832), and Ben-na-Bourd (Watson, 1844). 

 Abundant on Ben Dearg, in Ross-shire (with both white and red 

 flowers), also on several other hills in the neighbourhood, up to 

 1006 m. (G. C. Druce in "Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist." 1903, 228), 

 The drawing for "Engl. Botany," t. 1081, was from a Snowdon 

 specimen supplied by Dawson Turner in 1802. 



85. AIsi?ie sedoides, Kittel, " Taschenb. Fl. Deutschl." ed. 2, 

 997 (1844). — Ascends to the summit of Ben Lawers, on bare 



