GO ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Sub-Species I— Silene anglica. Linn. 



Plate CCII. 



Jfeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Caryoph. Tab. CCLXXIII. Fig. 5056. 

 S. gallica, var. /3, Auct. Plur. 



Stem erect or ascending, flexuous, with spreading branches. 

 E,acemes lax. Fruiting pedicels (or at least the lower ones) gene- 

 rally longer than the calyx, spreading or reflcxed. Lamina of the 

 petals elliptical, scarcely half as long as the claw, white or tinged 

 with pink. 



In sandy fields, dry places, and gravel-pits. Not uncommon 

 in the South of England, more rare in the North, and scarce in 

 Scotland, where, however, it is not unfrequcnt in Iladdingtonshire, 

 and is also found in Morav on the East, and Avr on the West side 

 of that country. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer. 



Stem 9 to 18 inches long, more or less distinctly dichotomously 

 or trichotomously branched, with the branches spreading. Leaves 

 varying in breadth, the lower ones narrowing at the base. Elowers 

 white, sometimes tinged with pink, f incli long by -i-g- inch across, 

 in a lax raceme, with a pair of leaf-like bracts at the base of each 

 pedicel. Calyx with long white shaggy hairs, teeth about half as 

 long as the tube. Petals very small and inconspicuous, elliptical 

 or oblong-oblanceolate. Fruit peduncles variable in length and 

 direction, but the lower ones generally exceeding the calyx, and 

 spreading or deiiexed. Capsule ovate-ovoid, opening by slightly 

 diverging triangular teeth. Seeds small, reniform, with the edges 

 not rounded off, the sides depressed so as to leave a raised margin, 

 covered with minute tubercles. Whole plant more or less hairy, 

 especially the stems, peduncles, and calices, which have long white 

 hairs. The stem is sticky in the upper part ; leaves deep green, 

 not at all glaucous. 



English Catchjli/ or Campion. 



French, Silene d'Angkterre. 



SuB-SrEciEs II.— Silene quinquevulnera. 



Flate cciir. 



S. sylvestris, ScJiott. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Caryoph. T;ib. CCLXXII. 



Fig. 5055. 

 S. anglica, var. p, Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 4G. Iluuh. t Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 



p. 59. 



Stem erect, straight, with ascending branches. Racemes dense. 

 Fruiting pedicels shorter than the calyx, erect. Lamina of the 



