1444 



SILENE* laciniata. 

 Cut-flowered ( Vitc//Jlt/. 



DECANDRIA TlilGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. CAUYoniYLLE.'E Jhss. % Silenca^ Dc C. {Introduction to 

 the nntnral system of Botanif, p. 157.) 

 SILENE.— Supn), vol.^3. fol. "lAl . 



Sect. VII. Siplionomorpha Otth. Caulescentes. Flores paniculati, 

 i"ai"6 solitarii ; pedicelU oppositi breves. Calyx tubulatus. 



§ 2. Florihus ercctis, calycibus longc clavatis. D. C. 

 S, laciniata; pubescens, caule erecto ramoso, tbliis niagnis lanceolatis acutis, 



floribus niaxiniis teiminalibus subnutantibus, calycibus longis cylindrico- 



ventricosis, petalis semi-4-fidis, appendicibus 2 ovatis, '^enitalibus in- 



cliisis. — De Cand. prodr. 1. 383. 

 S. laciniata. Cavan. icon. 6. 44. t. 564. 

 Lvchnis piilchra. Schlecht. et Cha7niss. in Linncea, .5. 234. 



Radix perennis. Caulis sesquipedalis, decumbens, pubescens. Folia 

 oblomjo-lanceolata, pallida viridia, pubescentia. Flores terminales, coccinei. 

 Genitalia in cultu exserta. 



A native of Mexico, whence it was originally introduced 

 in 1823, when seeds of it were presented to the Horticul- 

 tural Society by the late Right Uon. George Canning. It 

 was soon, however, lost, and has been for the second time 

 ])rocured by Mr. Graham, to whom we are so much indebted 

 for the introduction of some of the finest plants of the rich 

 mountain Flora of Mexico. 



Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society in July 1830. 



It is ditiicult to say what is the proper mode of treating 



* Tliis word is probably derived from c-Uxov, saliva. De Theis deduces 

 it more directly from the drunken 2:od Silenus, whose name he supposes to 

 have a similar orifrin. — Smith in Recs. 



