CARYOPHTLLEAE 149 



Syn. Fl. Sic. 1. pay. 504.—Torn. Fl. Sic. imy. 146.— Ar- 

 cany. Gomp. della Fl. Ital. pay. 95. — Ten. Fl. Nap. 4. 

 pay. 241. 



Agrostemma coelirosa, Lin. Sp. PI. pay. 624. — Bert. Fl. 

 It. 4. pay. 738. 



2. L. divaricata. — Flores divisi , grandiusculi, terminales, 

 noctufragrantes, primo subcorymbosi, corymbis cum pedicello 

 alare trichotomis contractis, masculi albi, perigonio tubolo- 

 so-clavato, foeminei rosei, perigouio ovato-ventricoso; postea 

 racemosi,.racemo composito, interrupto, longo , racemis par- 

 tialibus corymbulosis , brevissime pedunculatis , axillaribus ; 

 pedunculi in ^dicliotomis 1-2-pollicares : pedicelli 4-6-linea- 

 res; calyx tubulosus, 10-nervosus, nervis saepe purpurasceu- 

 tibus inter nervos membranaceo-albens vel purpurascens, plus 

 minus hirsutus et subinde hirsutissimus, quinquedentatus, den- 

 tibus oblongo - lanceolatis, obtusis, in fructu valde turgens, 

 ex ampliatione capsulae ovoideus ; corolla calyce duplo lon- 

 gior, saturate rubra in foemineis, et alba in masculis, squa- 

 niis bifidis, obtusis, eroso - crenatis coronata; unyues petalo- 

 rum calyci aequales; lamina plana, bifida , obtusa ; stamina, 

 ovarium , stylns et stiyma uti in geneire ; capsula sessilis, 

 ovoideo-subrotunda, unilocularis, ample hians valvis quinque 

 bipartitis, revolutis, fere pollicaris , glabra , calycem subae- 

 quans; semina crassiuscula, turgidula, reniformia, dorso con- 

 vexa, muriculata, nigra; caulis teres, erectus vel decumbens, 

 remote nodosus, superne dichotomus, a spithama ad duoB et 

 ultra pedes longus, rubeolus , a basi ad apicem villoso-liir- 

 sutus, villis patentibus, apice glandulosis et glandula viscosa, 

 saepe a basi divaricatus, semper ramosue, rami elongatis, di- 

 varicatis, nodosis ; folia ovata , vel ovato - oblonga, breviter 

 vel argute acutata , saepe undulata , radicalia caespitosa et 

 cum caulinis imis in petiolum foliaceum angustata, caulina 

 superiora et floralia sessilia, ovato-acuminata, omnia villoso- 

 hirsuta, apice granulata, granulis viscidis; radix fusiformis, 

 simplex vel ramosa. 



Floret a Majo ad- Autumnum, \. 



Aetnae, ubique in elatis et planis ad saxa vulcanica et 

 sepes: Catania, Bongiardo, Zaffarana, Milo. 



Icon, Beich. Cenf. 4. pay. 3. — Till. Hort. Pis. tah. 41. 

 f. i.sub nomine: Lyclmis sylvestris, noctiflora, alha, simplex, 



