29S DECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Silene. 



Petiver's specimens, mentioned in Fl. Br. 1397, perhaps any 

 thing else than S. nutans, of a larger size than usual, and ill 

 dried. 



9. S. Otites. Spanish Catchfly. 



Panicle with tufted, somewhat umbellate, upright branches. 

 Flowers dioecious. Petals linear, undivided, naked. 

 Leaves spatulate, roughish. 



S. Otites. FL Br. 469. Comp. 68. Prodr. Fl. Grcsc. v. 1. 300. 



Cucubalus Otites. Linn. Sp. PL 594. Willd. v. 2. 688. Huds. 186. 

 EngL Bot. V. 2. t. 85. FL Dan. <. 518. Ehrh. Beitr. v. 7. 142. 

 PL O/. 214. 



Viscago n. 920. HalL Hist. v. 1. 399. 



Lychnis Otites. Scop. Cam. v. 1.305. 



L. viscosa, flore muscoso. Bauh. Pin. 206. Raii Syn. 340. 



L. sylvestris sesamoides minor, tlore muscoso, luteo-herbaceo. 

 Mentz. PugilL t.2.f.2. 



Sesamoides magnum salmanticum. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 295./. Ger. 

 Em. 493./. 



Muscipula, sive Armoraria altera. Lob. Ic.453./. 



M. altera, flore muscoso. Dalech. Hist. 684./. 



Spanish Catchfly. Pet. H. Brit. t. 57. f. II. 



In dry sandy, or gravelly, open grassy fields, chiefly in Norfolk, 

 Suffolk, or Cambridgeshire. 



Between Svvaft'ham and Narford, Norfolk, on the grassy ridges of 

 the road. Also about Thetford, Barton Mills, and Bury. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root strong, yellowish, cylindrical, running deep into the ground j 

 tufted at the crown. Stem erect, from 1 to 2 feet high, round, 

 leafy, downy, very clammy about the middle of the upper joint, 

 below the panicle. Leaves small, spatulate, acute, roughish and 

 viscid, each tapering at the base into a long footstalk ; radical 

 ones numerous, tufted, and rather the largest, 2 or 3 inches long 

 including the stalk. Panicle oblong, erect, of many opposite, 

 unequal, somewhat umbellate, simple or compound, erect 

 branches. Bracteas crowded, membranous, acute. FL nume- 

 rous, but small and inconspicuous, upright, greenish, dioecious, 

 as even Caspar Bauhin remarked ; yet abortive stamens often 

 occur in the fertile ones, as well as abortive pistils in the others. 

 Petals small, sometimes wanting, narrow, pale yellow, quite 

 simple and entire, without scales. Styles variable from 2 to 5, 

 but usually 3. Caps, elliptical, filling the calyx, and projecting 

 a little out of it, opening by 6 teeth. I know not whether that 

 number varies with the styles, but it is probable. 



