404 



DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Cucubalus. 



Oti'tes. 



an'glica. 



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PI. dan. 914-5. bet. l6±-Kniph. \2-J. B. iii. 356-Pef. 57. 

 2-Black<w. 26S-C/us. I 293. 2-Dod. 172~Lob. oh. 184- 

 l~Ger. em. 678. 2-Park. 263-Ger. 550. 2-Trag. 130- 



" Lome. ii. 33-H. ox. v. 20. 1. 



We have adopted the improved Spec. char, as given by Dr. 

 Smith in the Eng. bot. because, as he justly observes, our plants 

 have no appearance of a crown at the mouth of the bloss. Calyx 

 white, or purplish, with green or purple veins. Flowers white. 

 Pistils sometimes 4 when growing on the sea coast. 



Spading Poppy. White Bottle. Bladder Campion'. Cornfields 



and dry meadows and pastures, common 



Mai 



strap-shaped^ undivided. 



P. June, Aug. 



slants : petals 





E. hot. &5-Kniph. 12-27. dan. 5lS-Clus. i. 295. l-Ger. 

 em. 593. 1-J. B. iii. 350. 2-Pet. 57* U-Ger. 396. P* 

 If. ox. v. 20. 5. 



The barren plants bear more flowers, and in closer panicles 

 than the fertile ones. I have examined many hundred plants, 

 but never met with one with stamens and pistils in the same ca- 

 lyx. Woodward. Though the male flowers sometimes produce 

 imperfect pistils, and the female imperfect stamens. Root-leave* 

 lying on a circle on the ground. Bloss. pale yellowish or 

 greenish white. 



Spanish Campion. Gravelly pastures. Gravel pits on the 

 North side of Newmarket, and between Barton Mills and Thet- 

 ford, Norfolk. [Near SwafFham and Narborough. Norfolk. 



Mr. Woodward.] 



P. July, Aug 



SILE'NE. Calyx distended : petals 5, with claws ; 



crowned at the mouth : cap. 1 or 3-celled. 



(l) Flowers lateral, solitary. 



S. Hairy : flowers upright^ alternate, on fruit-stalks : lower 



ones bent back after flowering. 



Curt. 266- Dill. elth. 309. 3f)8. 



Leaves spear-shaped ; fiowers axillary ; fruit-stalks hairy, 

 clammy, at first upright, then bent back, and at length when 

 the seeds are quite ripe upright again. Petals white, either en- 



* The leaves boiled have something of the flavour of pease, and proved 

 of grout use to the inhabitants of the island of Mino.ca, in the year 1685, 

 when a swarm of locusts had destroyed the harvest. The Gothlajidejrs 

 apply the leaves to erysipelatous eruptions. 





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