Silene. CARYOPHYLLACE^. 215 



pedicels and white or pink flowers. S. Lusitanica, L. 1. c, a form with the lower pedicels 

 elongated (equalling or exceeding the calyx) and becoming horizontal in fruit, has been 

 found at Jolon, Calif., Brandegee. (Nat. from Eu.) 



Var. QDiNQUEVULNERA, Koch. Petals more showy, subentire, deep crimson with a 

 white or pink border. — Synop. Fl. Germ. & Helv. 100. S. quinquevulnera, L. 1. c. — With 

 the typical form. (Adv. from Eu.) 



-1— H— Inflorescence dichotomously racemose. 



S. DiCHOTOMA, Ehrh. Tall, more or less hirsute and viscid : root annual or biennial : leaves 

 lanceolate or oblauceolate : flowers short-pedicelled or subsessile, larger than in the preced- 

 ing, half inch in diameter, often nodding in anthesis, but becoming erect in fruit : petals 

 white or roseate ; blades obovate, more or less deeply bifid : calyx cylindric in anthesis, 

 becoming ovate in fruit, the prominent green nerves strictly simple, hirsute. — Beitr. vii. 

 143; Reichenb. I.e. vi. t. 280. — Recently and extensively introduced in New England, 

 where it is becoming a noxious weed in clover and grain fields ; also locally established in 

 other parts of the country; Texas, Nealley ; Berkeley, Calif., Greene; fl. June, July. 

 (Introd. from S. Eu. and W. Asia.) Var. kacemosa, Rohrb. 1. c. 95 {S. racemosa, Otth, 1. c. 

 384; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 589) is a form or variety, which has been vaguely separated upon 

 various combinations of inconstant characters (chiefly the more spreading branches and 

 deeply cleft petals), but it scarcely occurs in America except on ballast (Philadelphia, 

 Martindale). 



•(— -1— H— Inflorescence cymose or paniculate, not distinctly racemose. 



++ Viscid-pubescent or hirsute. 



S. NOCTiFLORA, L. A coarsc species a foot or two in height : leaves lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, 2 to 3 inches long : flowers usually few in loose cymes, fragrant : calyx large, in 

 fruit ovoid, white with green nerves tending to anastomose ; the teeth attenuate : petals bifid. 

 — Spec. i. 419 ; Eng. Bot. t. 291 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 192 ; Wats. & Coulter in Gray, Man 

 ed. 6, 85. — Roadsides and cultivated grounds ; fl. June to September. (Nat. from Eu.) 



++ ++ Smooth or nearly so, a part of each of the upper internodes glutinous. 



S. antirrhina, L. l. c. (Sleepy or Snapdragon Catchfly.) Stem 6 inches to 3 feet in 

 height : leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, commonly acute : flowers rather numerous, small, 

 ephemeral, borne in a compound cyme ; pedicels long, filiform : calyx smooth, green, ovoid 

 in fruit, about 4 lines long, contracted above ; the teeth short : ovary scarcely stiped ; petals 

 small, pink or white, more or less emarginate or bifid. — Otth, 1. c. 376 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 

 191 ; Rohrb. 1. c. 173 ; Mart. Fl. Bras. xiv. pt. 2, t. 66. Saponaria dioica, Cham. & Schlecht. 

 Linnaea, i. 38. Ehraxis virgata, Raf. Autikon Bot. 29. — Waste places, common, widely 

 distributed throughout the United States and Canada (also S. Am.) ; very variable in size 

 and foliage. 



Var. linaria, Wood. " Very slender ; leaves all linear except the lowest, which are 

 linear-spatulate ; calyx globular. Ga. and Fla." — Class-Book, ed. of 1861, 256, & Bot. & 

 Fl. .53 ; Wats. Bibl. Index, 107. 



Var. divaricata, Robinson. Very slender : leaves linear or lance-linear : branches 

 filiform, divaricate : calyx ovoid, 2 to 2| lines long : petals wanting. — Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xxviii. 132. — Waltham, Mass., Boott; Rockford, 111., Bebb, Swezey. A very similar apetalous 

 form has been collected at Hartville, Wyoming, Nelson. 



S. Armeria, L. 1. c. 420. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic : flowers borne at the ends of the 

 branches in small close cymes : pedicels short : calyx slender, clavate, 6 to 8 lines long : ovary 

 long-stiped : petals pink, subentire or minutely toothed ; appendages lanceolate, acute. — 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 194; Reichenb. 1. c. t. 284. — Occasionally found on roadsides and in 

 fields, having escaped from gardens. (Introd. from Eu.) 



* * Perennial, siibacaulescent, very low and densely matted. 



S. acaulis, L. (Moss Campion.) Closely cespitose, an inch or two in height : leaves lin- 

 ear, crowded on the branching rootstocks : flowers small, 2 to 3 lines in diameter, subsessile 

 or raised on naked curved peduncles (2 to 6 lines long) : calyx narrowly campanulate, 2 to 

 3 lines long, glabrous ; the teeth short, rounded : petals purplish, rarely white, entire, retuse 



