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assumed when transplanted to the garden of my former residence, in 

 Adelaide Road, London, in which it grew in a shady situation. In 

 Balmuto garden, however, the same species, transplanted from Seafield, 

 Fife, has retamed its normal appearance." 

 Silene nuiritima begins to flower a little earlier than S. inflata. 



First record : Jones^ 1820. 



90. S. anglica, L. English Catchjly or Campion. 



Colonist ; in sandy or peaty fields with corn, tiunips, and other 

 crops ; also in gravelly spots by roadsides. Rather rare. July 

 to October, 

 c. I. Fields near Polbathick. Waste spot close to Heskyn Mill, 1875. 

 Roadside between Derniford Farm and Cadsonbury, rather 

 plentifully, 1874. Fields near Quethiock, 

 II. Between Torpoint and St. Johns. One plant by a roadside at 

 Kingsmill, 1873. In plenty among potatoes in a field below 

 Hingston Down, 1879. . 

 D. III. Field near Maristow House ; Phyt. iv. N. S. 383. 

 IV. Cornfield, Shaugh, m plenty, 1861. 



VI. Banks of the Erme ; Banker, Keys, Fl. ii. 53. Near Caton in 

 the valley of this river, 1865 ; elsewhere near Ivybridge, 1877, 

 &c. Between Ivybridge and Harford, 1878. 

 Mostly in the cultivated fields of the wilder or semi-moorland tracts. 



First record : Brifjgs, 1860. 



91. S. noctiflora, L. Night-flower ing Catchfly. 



Casual, or Colonist ; in tillage fields, &c. Very rare. June ~to 



September. 



c. II. Five plants m a barley-field between Cremyll and Anderton, 1875. 



D III. A few among oats in a field at Blaxton, 18G8. Four on a heap 



of stony refuse by Tamerton Lake, 1873. 



IV. A single plant in a waste spot by the luie of the Great Western 



Railway at Crabtree, 1877. 

 V. About a dozen among mangold wurzel in a field between Gooda- 



moor and Lutton, 1879. 

 VI. Six or eight plants in a waste spot by the side of a road near 

 Ivybridge. 



First record : Briggs, 1880. 



S. annulata, Thore. About 20 plants of this Continental species 

 amongst Trifolium incarnatura at Prospect, Pennycross. Found by my 

 brother in 1871. 



