DECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Silene. 297 



Viscago n. 915. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 397. 



Lychnis sylvestris alba nona Clusii. Raii Syn. 340. ed. 2. 201. 



Ger.Em.470.f. Deering Nott. \37. 

 L. sylvestris nona. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 291./. 

 L, silvestris, seu montana latifolia viscosa, florum petalis suprh, 



albis, subtus virescentibus, interdiu se contrahentibus. Moris. 



V.2. 535. sect. 5. ^ 20. /. 4. 

 Broad White Catchfly. Pet. H. Brit. t.57.f. 7. 

 /3. Silene paradoxa. Fl.Br.467; excluding the s^jnonyms of Lin- 



nceus, Jucquin and Zannoni. See Ft. Br. 1397. 

 Cucubalus viscosus. Huds. 186 : excl. the syn. o/Linnerus cntd Tilli. 

 Lychnis major noctiflora Dubrensis perennis. Raii Syn. 340. ed. 2. 



211. Hist. V. 2. 995. 



On limestone rocks, or chalky cliffs. 



On the walls of Nottingham castle, and thereabout ; T. VVillisel. 

 Ray. In Dovedale, Derbyshire. Mr. Woodivard. Near North 

 Queen's ferry, Scotland, Mr. Mackay. In Caernarvonshire. 

 Mr. Pennant. On rocks about Knaresborough, Yorkshire. Rev. 

 Archdeacon Peirson. 



/3. On Dover cliffs ; Mr. Newton. Ray. Gathered there by Mr. 

 T. F. Forster. 



Perennial. Ju7ie, July. 



Root tapering, somewhat fleshy, bearing one or more upright 

 flowering stems, and several recumbent leafy shoots. Stems 12 

 or 18 inches high, bent and reclining in the lower part only, 

 otherwise erect, simple, leafy, round, rough with short dense 

 hoary pubescence. Leaves in like manner hoary all over, about 

 2 inches long, lanceolate, acute, single-ribbed ; the lower and 

 radical ones more obovate, tapering at the base into bordered 

 footstalks. Panicle terminal, nearly erect, of several pairs of 

 opposite, spreading, drooping, bracteated, downy, more or less 

 forked, branches, each bearing from 3 to 5 flowers, the terminal 

 branch most erect. Flowers drooping, white, most expanded, 

 and very svveet-scented, in an evening. Cal. half an inch long, 

 swelling upwards, membranous, with 10 downy viscid ribs, often 

 purplish. Pet. twice the length of the calyx, each with a narrow 

 claw, a deeply cloven, narrow, obtuse, involute limb, and a double 

 acute scale. Styles either very short, or in some flowers much 

 elongated and purplish. Stigmas long, obtuse, downy. Caps. 

 ovale, bluntly angular, on a shortish thick stalk. Seeds rugged. 



/3, a long disputed plant, I have seen brought from Dover cliffs, 

 and cultivated by Mr. Forster. It seems, as Ray thought, not 

 distinct from the common S. nutans, though with somewhat 

 broader leaves, and, according to its first discoverer Mr. Newton, 

 much less viscidity. In the panicle, flowers, and various length 

 of styles, 1 can find no difterence. Miller mistook S. paradoxa 

 for the Dover Catchfly, and sent it as such to Linnaeus ; but I 

 cannot learn that this grows at Dover, nor arc Buddie's aiul 



