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Lyounis piotca. (Plate IX. Fig. 34.) Red or White 
Campion. A common plant everywhere under hedges. The 
flower is both white and red. Some botanists divide them into 
two species ; Hooker classes them together, and makes the 
white only a variety. The red variety is found plentifully in 
Devonshire, Cornwall, and rarely in some western counties, 
and the white is common where the other is rare. In Sussex 
they are both equally common. The white is fragrant in the 
evening. It grows from one to two feet high, branched 
above, sticky about the jomts of the stem. Leaves ovate, 
sometimes ovate and narrow. Flowers in bunches, large 
and handsome. Calyx tubular. 
Liycunis FLoscutl. Meadow Lychnis or Ragged Robin. 
This is scarcely in flower till June. It is very pretty, though 
from its petals being so much jagged at the edge it has a ragged 
appearance, whence its name. It is frequent in moist pas- 
tures and meadows. It is about one or two feet high, the 
lower part hairy. Leaves long and rather narrow. Flowers 
in a loose bunch, petals of a pretty rose-colour, and four- 
cleft. Calyx and flower stalks, reddish-purple. 
Lychnis viscaria, and L. alpina are rare, found on alpine 
rocks. They have rose-coloured flowers. 
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