296 DECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Silene. 



**** Pa7iicle forked, corymbose, leafless. 



7. S. Armeria. Common, or Lobel's, Catchfly. 



Panicles forked, level-topped, many-flowered. Petals cloven, 

 each with a double awl-shaped scale. Calyx and leaves 

 smooth. Capsule not longer than its stalk. 



S. Armeria. Linn. Sp. PI. 60 \. JVilld. v.2. 7 05. FI.BrA7\. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 20. t. 1398. Fl. Dan. t. .559. 



Viscago n. 9 1 6. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 398. 



Lychnis viscosa purpurea latifolia Isevis. Bauh. Pin. 205. Dill, in 

 Raii Stjn. 341. 



L. sylvestris prima. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 288./. 



Armerius flos quartus. Dod. Pempt. \7G.f. 



Muscipula, sive Armoraria altera, et Armerius flos tcrtius Dotlonaei. 

 Lob. Ic. 454./. 



M. sive Armeria altera. Dalech. Hist. 809./. 



M. Lobelii. Ger. Em. 60\.f. 



In fields, or on banks, or old walls, a doubtful native. 



On the banks of the river, half a mile below Chester. Dr. Rich- 

 ardson. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root tapering. Herb smooth, glaucous. Stem erect, round, alter- 

 nately branched, leafy, with a brown, hairy and glutinous ring, 

 under 2 or 3 of the upper joints, by which small flies are caught. 

 Leaves sessile, ovate-oblong, of a light glaucous green, very 

 smooth. Panicles terminal, erect, repeatedly forked, dense, 

 corymbose, with a pair of small acute bructeas under each sub- 

 division. Fl. on very short stalks, except the lowermost, erect, 

 crowded, inodorous. Cal. tubular, swelling upwards, very 

 smooth, often reddish, with 10 ribs, and 5 teeth, not 10 as de- 

 scribed in Engl. Bot.; the base abrupt. Limb of the petals rose- 

 coloured, varying to white, obovate, cloven, always spreading, 

 with an upright, tapering, acute, reddish pair of scales at the 

 base. Caps, ovate, within the calyx, elevated on a columnar 

 stalk, often more than its own length. 



Often cultivated, as a hardy annual, in flower-gardens, from whence 

 it may occasionally escape into the country. 



***** Stem jmnicled, imperfectlif forked. 



8. S. nutcms. Nottingham Catchfly. 



Panicle with drooping, unilateral, partly forked, branches. 

 Petals deeply cloven, with linear segments, and an acute 

 cloven scale. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, downy. 



S. nutans. Linn. Sp. PL 596. mUd.v.2.69\. Fl.Br.466. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 7. t. 465. Hook. Scot. \35. FL Dan. t. 242. Ehrh. Herb. 

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