DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Silene. 40!> 



tire or notched at the end. Curt. Sometimes with pale reddish 

 spots. E. bot. 86. 



Small Corn Campion, with a 'very small white flower, Ray. 

 English Catchfly. Sandy corn fields. Near the Devil's Ditch, 

 Cambridgeshire. -In Essex. About Coombe Wood, Surry * 

 and near Newport in the Isle of Wight. [Road side between 

 Dundee and St. Andrew's. Cornfields in several parts of Fife- 

 shire, Angus-shire, and Perthshire. Mr. Brown.] A. June, July. 





S. Petals very entire, roundish : fruit upright, alternate. quinque- 



r i o/? zr . / vul'xiera. 



E. hot. &6-Kniph. 8. 



Calyx of the fruit upright, hairy, clammy. Petals blunt, 

 scarcely nicked, very entire at the edge, purple, with a white 

 margin. Linn* Plant less hairy and less viscid than the pre- 

 ceding. Limb of the petals white, with a blood red blotch at 

 the base. 



Variegated Catchfly. S. anglica. Kniphoff. Sandy Corn fields 



about Wrotham, Kent. Huds. In our flower gardens very com- 



mon 



A. June — Aug. 



(2) Flowers lateral, or terminating. 



S. Petals cloven: calyx ribbed : flowers lateral, pointing nutans. 



one way, bowed downwards : panicle drooping. 



E. hot. 465- F/. dan. 2±2-Clus. i. 291. 1-Gcr. em. 470. 8- 

 Park. 63 1. 5. 



Stem simple, cylindrical, a foot high, with 3 joints below the 

 panicle, beset with clammy hairs. Leaves spear-shaped, with 

 short hairs. Root-leaves on short leaf-stalks, forming a close 

 turf. Petals white, narrow, cloven more than halfway down ; 

 segments scolloped at the end, rolled inwards in the day time. 

 Claws of the blossom twice as long as the calyx. Stamens 

 white, twice as long as the claws of the petals. Styles 3, white, 

 as long as the stamens. Linn. Stem frequently branched from 

 the root. Mr. Woodward. Capsule with 3 cells, and its mouth 

 with 6 clefts. 



Nottingham Catchfly. Mountainous meadows. [On the 

 Lodge at Nottingham Castle. — Rocks in Dovedale, Derby- 

 shire. Mr. Woodward. Near Gloddeath, Caernarvonshire. 



Penn. Wales. — Foot of North Queen's Ferry Hill. Mr. Brown.] 



P. June. July, 



The Lychnis major noctiflora Dubrensis perennisof Ray Syn. 

 340, is supposed also by Mr. Woodward and Mr. Lightfoot to 

 be the S. nutans, which Ray himself also strongly suspected, and 

 his more ample description of it in Hist. PI. ii. p. y$5 $ agrees 

 with my specimens of the S. nutans. At any rate it cannot be 



Linnaeus as Mr 



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