328 DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Lychnis. 



with a slight woolly fringe at the base. Panicle spiked ; corym- 

 bose at the top J lower branches forked. FL crowded, scentless. 

 Cal. nearly smooth, membranous, purplish. Pet. rose-coloured, 

 veiny, very slightly cloven, or inversely heart-shaped, with a di- 

 vided acute scale at the top of the claw. Caps, ovate, short, 

 elevated within the calyx on a stout angular stalk, half its own 

 length, and opening with 5 revolute, cloven teeth, or valves, 

 with membranous central partitions. Seeds kidney-shaped, 

 black, rough. 

 A white-flowered variety has been sometimes found ; a double one 

 is common in rustic gardens. 



3. L. alpina. Red Alpine Campion. 



Smooth. Petals cloven. Flowers densely corymbose. Cap- 

 sule stalked, of five cells. Leaves linear-lanceolate, naked 

 at the base. 



L. alpina. Linn. Sp. PL 626. Lapland Tour, v. 2. 19. Willd. v. 2. 

 809. Sm. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 10. 342. Engl Bot. v. 32. t. 2254. 

 Cotnp.71. Hook. Scot. \42. Curt. Mag. t. 394. Fl.Dan.t.65. 



L. n. 922. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 400. t. 17. 



Silene n. 185. Linn. Fl. Lapp. ed.l. 146. ed. 2. 152. 



On rocks in the Highlands of Scotland. 



Near the summits of the Clova mountains, Angusshire. Mr. G. 

 Don. 1795. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Half the size of the last ; the herbage of a paler hue, and quite 

 destitute of viscidity. Leaues not fringed at the base. H. crowded 

 into a dense roundish tuft, bright rose-coloured. Border of each 

 petal cloven half way down, with 2 small protuberances, as Haller 

 says, rather than teeth, at the base. The capsule is stalked, and 

 I have certainly found 5 cells, with membranous partitions, as 

 in L. Viscaria ; though in the Fl. Scot, it is otherwise described. 

 The styles are naturally 5, as recorded by Linnaeus in his Lap- 

 land Tour J though I find one flower on his own specimen with 



3, agreeing with Fl. Lapp. There may, doubtless, sometimes be 



4, as mentioned in Willdenow, after Syst. Veg. ed. 13 and 14. 



4. L. dioica. Red or White Campion. 



Flowers dioecious. Petals cloven, crowned with four teeth. 



Capsule of one cell. 

 L. dioica. Linn. Sp. PI. 626. mild. v. 2. 8 1 0. Fl. Br. 495. Hook. 



Scot. 142. 

 L. n. 923. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 400. 

 L. sylvestris. Dod.Pempt.l7l.f. Coronar.47.f. 

 Ocimastrum, sive Ocymoides. Matth. Falgr. v, 2. 346. f. Corner. 



Epit.739.f. 



