134 DECAND. TRIGYN. 



9. SAPONARIA. 



J. S. officinalis (Soapwori), leaves ovato-lanccolato, calyces 

 cylindrical glhbrous. E. B. t. 1060. 



Hab. Road-sides. Between Dean and Ravelston ; near Rosslyn cha- 

 pel ; banks of the Esk, above Coalpits ; and side of the Mill-Lead, 

 opposite the old bridge at Musseli)urgh, Maiigh. Clicsh woods, 

 Kinross-shire, Mr. Arnott. Fl. July, Aug. % . 



One to one foot and a half high, with rather a stout cylindrical stem. 

 Xeffi-fs ribbed, opposite and connate. Panicle of numerous large 

 rose-coloured flowers. Limb of the cor. obcordate. — Makes a lather 

 with water, whence the name of Soapwort. 



10. DIANTHUS^ 

 ■* Floirers clustered. 



1 . D. Armeria {Deptford Pink)., flowers clustered fascicled, caly- 

 cine scales lanceolate downy as long as the tube. E. B.t.'dXl . 



Hab. In fields near the seat of Charles Gray, Esq. of Carse, Angus- 

 shire, but sparingly, G.Don. F/. July, Aug. 0. 



One or one foot and a half high, branched upwards. Leaves linear, 

 opposite and connate, slightly pubescent, upper ones acute. Limb 

 of the petals rose colour, with white (not red as mentioned in E. B.) 

 «lots, crenate at the margin. 



** Floirers solifary, many on the sa)ne stem. 



2. D. deltoides {Maiden Pink), flowers solitary, calycine scales 

 niostlv 2 lanceolate acute, petals notched. IJglilf. p. 22'). 

 E.B'.t.Ql. 



/3. cal. scales 4, flowers white. D. glajccus, Light/', p. 225. 



Hab. King's Park, Edinb., Light/, both a. and /5. Blackford and 

 Pentland hills, Maugh. N. bank of the loch of Forfar, and other 

 s)iots in Angus- shire, G. Don. Rocks near Newburgh, Fifcshirc, 

 D. Don. Sandy-know Craigs, Mr. Borrer. Fl. July. 1/ . 



A small plant from 6 — 9 inches high, glaucous. Leaves linear-lan- 

 ceolate, slightly hairy. Flowers in a. rose colour, with a deeper 

 circle in the middle. 



3. TRIGYNIA. 



11. SILENE. 



* Calyx glabrous. 

 1. S, iirflala {Bladder Campion), flowers panicled, cal. inflated 



glabrous reticulated with veins, leaves ovate. 

 a. larger., stems erect many-flowered, petals scarcely crowned. 



S. ivjl., Sm. Comp. Cncubalus Behen, Light/, p. 220. 



E. B. t. 164. 



" I fear the D.barhatus, of which 3 stations are given in the vicinity of Edin- 

 burgh by my friend Mr. Maughan in the JFernerian Trans., can only be con- 

 sidered the outcast of gardens, and not of sufficiently general occurrence to 

 be introduced into a Scottish Flora. The D. arcnar«(s of Lightfoot, 2'- r-^- 

 lliat antlior .'inspects is only the /). ddtoiih-x, 



