





DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Agrostemma. 423 



21. 31-Pet. 57. 12-Fuchs. 127-J. B. iii. 341. <l~Trag. 

 127-Matti>. 7$%-Ger. 9<26~Walc.-Lomc. i. 83- 3. 



Calyx 10-ribbed, longer than the blossom. Flowers purplish 

 red, sometimes white* 



Corn Cackle. Cornfields, not unfrequent. A. June, July, 



LYCH'NIS. Calyx 1 leaf, oblong, even : petals 5, 



with claws, limbs often cloven : caps. 1 to 5- 

 celled. 



L. Stamens and pistils in distinct plants: capsules 1 -celled, dioi'ca. 



Var. 1. diurna. Blossoms red: capsules roundish. 



Curt % ~Knlph. 11-Ludw. \7O-Walc.-Clus. i. 2Q4. \-Dod. 

 171. l-Lo&. ois. 181. 2-Ger. em. 4(>y. 1-ParL 6*31. 1 



and2-Ff.ox.v.21.23~Pet.57.6. 



Upper stem-leaves generally spear-shaped, lower ones tgg^ 

 shaped, tapering at each end : but I have a specimen gathered 

 on the rocks at Blaze Castle, near Bristol, in which the upper 

 leaves are egg-shaped, and the lower ones circular. This is a 

 female plant. 



Red-flowered Wild Campion* Campion Cucioiv Flower* 



Hedges, ditches, and moist woods. The rocks on the Isle of 

 Ailsa are covered with it, where there is none of the white. 

 Lightf. [The red flowered very common, the white very rare, 

 about Manchester ; the white common about Chester, but none 

 of the red. Mr. Caley. This fact tends to corroborate the opi- 

 nion of Dr. Sibthorpe, mentioned below.] P. May— Sept. 



Var. 2. 'vespert'ma. Blossoms white ; capsules conical. 



Walc.-Matth. 997~7> B, iii. M2-Pet. 57. o-Fl. dan. 79"- 



H. ox. v. 21. 21. 



Both these plants correspond in structure, they both have 

 male and female flowers on separate roots, and both sometimes 

 are found with hermaphrodite flowers. Ray observes that in the 

 red-flowered the stems are weaker and more flaccid than in the 

 other, and from their not growing intermixed, Mr. Woodward 

 and some other judicious botanists believe them to be distinct 

 species. In the white-flowered sort the petals of the male plant 

 have the limbs divided down to the claws, but in the female they 

 are only cloven half way down. The mouth of the blossom is 

 partly closed by a crown formed of 4> little scales at the top of 



the claw of each petal. 



Since the above was written, I perceive that Dr. Sibthorpe in 

 FI. Oxon. enumerates the red and the white-flowered dioicous 

 Lychnis as distinct species ; the former he calls L. diuma, re- 

 making that the capsules are roundish, and that its scentless 



