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of cultivation, only in pastures in parts of the Mediter- 

 ranean shores. As a weed of cultivated and waste places 

 its distribution is world-wide. It is fairly common in 

 Southern England, becoming rarer northwards. The 

 form S. quinqiievidnera is rare in Britain, and chiefly a 

 grain introduction. 



[Silene italica, Pers. Abundant on shingle and cliffs 

 on the coast of Kent, and considered certainly native 

 there by Messrs. Hanbury and Marshall. The range 

 of the species as a native had been considered to be 

 confined to the south and east of Europe, and the 

 Kent localities as due to garden culture, but in view 

 of the definite opinion of the learned authors of the 

 recently published Flora of Kent its station there 

 must be regarded as a survival of a once more extended 

 range.] \ 



Silene muscipula, L. A common cornfield weed 

 of the Mediterranean region which has occurred a 

 few times in England in connection with grain 

 aliens. 



Silene noctiflora, L, Native in bushy places in 

 Bulgaria and probably other parts of South-Eastern 

 Europe, also common as a cornfield weed from Western 

 Europe to Persia. It is rather frequent in Britain, except 

 in the extreme north. 



[Silene nutans, L. Native on rocks and bushy ground 

 from Western Europe, including England, to Siberia. 

 It is more frequent, however, as a garden escape on old 

 walls and waste ground.] 



