DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Cucubalus. 403 



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D. glaucus. Linn. Common in gardens. King's Park, Edin- 

 burgh. Lightf. [Chedder Rocks, Somersetshire. Mr. Swayne.] 



P. June, July. 



(3) Stem herbaceous, supporting a single flower. . 



D. Stem mostly single-flowered : scales of the calyx cse'sius. 



roundish and short : petals irregularly toothed: leaves 

 rough at the edges. (E. hot.) 



Dill elth. 298. 3S5-£. bot. 62. 



Stem trailing, the flowering branches rising upwards. Leaves 

 bluish green, soft to the touch, but finely serrated with pointed 

 semi-transparent glands at the edges. Calyx scales either 2 or 

 4. Petals with short stiffish purple hairs at the base of the limb. 



Flowers pale pink. 



Mountain Pink. D. wirgineus. $ Linn. D. glaucus. Huds. 



See English Botany, p. 6*2. Chedder Rocks. . P. July. 



TRIGYNIA. 



CUCU'BALUS. Calyx inflated: petals 5, with claws, 



not crowned at the mouth : capsule 3-cellcd. 



C. Calyx bell-shaped : petals distant : seed-vessels colour- bacci'ferus* 



ed : branches straddling. 



Dicks, h. s.-Mill. 112-C///J. ii. 183. 2-Dod. 403-Z*£. obs. 

 136. 3-Ger. em. 6U. 13~Park. 759- 1-J. B. ii. If 5. 1~ 

 Tourn. 17 6 • 



This singular plant will not properly arrange either with the 

 Cucubalus or with the Silene. The fringe or crown at the 

 mouth of the blossom refers it to the latter genus, but the fruit, 

 which is a pulpy berry, not a dry capsule, excludes it from both. 

 Whole plant somewhat hairy. Stem, joints large ; branches nearly 

 horizontal. Leaves in pairs at the joints. Flowers noddin w 

 Calyx egg-shaped. Petals, when young, not seeming to be 

 fringed at the mouth, but afterwards it becomes visible; and the 

 fringe is serrated at the ends, so that it is properly a Silene. 

 Berry with 3 partitions, but not sufficiently projecting to sepa- 

 rate it into distinct cells. Flowers white. Berries black. 



Berry-bearing Chickweed. Hedges in Anglesea. 



P. June, July. 



C. Calyx nearly globular, smooth,with a net-work of veins: Be'hen 



leaves egg-spear-shaped, glaucous, smooth. ' 



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