CARYOPHYLLACE^. 45 



SILENE, L. 



88. S. inflata, Sm. Bladder CamjDwn. 



Kative ; on banks, walls, and in dry pastures. Very common. 



May to July, or later. Area general. 

 h. puherula, Jord. 

 Rather common, 

 c. I. Wheat-field near Burrell, St. Stephens, 1874. 



II. Antony, near the village. Between Cawsand and Penlee Point. 

 Between Etheric and Cotehele Quay, gTOwing near the tyi^e, 

 1874. 

 D. III. Hedge-bank, Ham ; gTowing Avith the ij^Q. Two plants, with 

 one of the tj\}Q, on a wall-top at Knackersknowle, 1876. Bank 

 above Tamerton Creek near Warleigh Wood gate. 

 IV. Sandy field by the Plym, with the other form. 

 V. Between Ridgway and Ivy bridge. 



VI. Between Flete Western Lodge and Ermmgton. Near Ivybridge. 

 At many of the above stations only seen smgly. The occurrence of this 

 variety with the ij^Q m different situations would seem to go far to prove 

 that its divergence does not depend on soil or place of growth. 



I have known the Bladder Campion called 'Rattle Bags' in this neigh- 

 bourhood, a name usually attached to the Bhinanthus Crista-galli. 



89. S. maritima, With. Sea Bladder Cam2non. 



Native ; on sea-cliffs, and in other rocky or dry spots in the 

 neighbourhood of the sea, or by estuaries. Common. Part of 

 April to September, 

 c. I. On the shore near Crafthole ! Jo7ies, Tour, 16. Seaton ; one 

 plant up the valley a mile from the coast, but showing an 

 approach to inflata, 1874. 

 II. Whitsand Bay ! ; Keys, S. D. Lit. Chron. 277, and Fl. ii. 53. 

 By jMillbrook Lake, near Southdown. 

 D. III. Western side of Weston Mills Creek. Saltash Passage. 



IV. Hoe, Plymouth ; Bovisand ; Keys, ib. Between Mount Batten 



and Jenny Cliff. 

 V. Wembury. Revelstoke. 

 VI. Mothecombe. On Kingston Rock, above the Erme estuary. 

 General on the coast. In an exposed nook on a wall by a bank, on the 

 Devon side of the tidal Tamar, just opposite Saltash, I have knoA\Ti for 

 ten years past a remarkable plant, most like this Silene, but by its many- 

 flowered panicles, and not densely-matted barren stems, shoT\ing some 

 resemblance to S. inflata. Concerning specimens of it Dr. Boswell re- 

 marked in Eep. Bot. Ex. Club, 1870, 9 : "almost identical in appearance 

 with the form which ordmary S. maritima from Shoreham, Sussex, 



