DECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Silene. 297 



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



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



' Ger. Em.470.f. Decring Nott. 137. 

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

 L. silvestris, sen montana latifolia viscosa, florum petalis supra 



albis, subtus virescentibus, interdiu se contrahentibus. Moris. 



V.2. 535. sect.D. t.20.f.4. 

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

 /3. Silene paradoxa. Fl. Br. 467 ; excluding the synonyms of Lin- 



nceus, Jacquin and Zannoni. See Fl. Br. 1397. 

 Cucubalus viscosus. Huds. 186 ; excl. the syn. ofLinnceus and 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 j T. Willisel. 

 Ray. In Dovedale, Derbyshire. Mr. Woodward. 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. Forstcr. 



Perennial. June, 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, bracteatcd, 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 sweet-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 pur])lish. Stigma.'^ long, obtuse, downy, ('aj)s. 



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



)3, a long disputed j)lant, I have seen brought from Dover clifl's, 



and cultivated by Mr. Forstcr. It seems, as Kay thought, not 



distinct from the common N. nutans, though with somewhat 



l)roa(ler leaves, and, according to its first discoverer Mr. Newton, 



much less viscidity. In the panicle, Jfowrrs, and variou.^ lencth 



n( .sti/les, 1 can find no diflerence. Miller mistook N. paradoxa 



f(tr tiu' Dover ('atchfl\-, and sent it as such to Minueus j but I 



