CARYOPHYLLACEyE. 65 



Gynophore about one-third the length of the capsule. Capsule 

 ovate-ovoid, obtuse, about as long as the calyx, opening by spreading 

 teeth. 



On dry hills, rocks, walls, and borders of fields. Rare. It 

 occurs in the Isle of Wight, and plentifully on the cliffs in South 

 Kent ; on the walls of Nottiugham Castle ; in Dovedalc, Derby- 

 shire ; at Conway, North Wales. In Scotland it has been reported 

 from Fife and Eorfarshire ; and I have also seen specimens from 

 St. Cyrus, Kincardineshire. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



B/Ootstock producing numerous short barren tufts of leaves and 

 flowering stems. Stems erect, 1 to 2 feet high. Lower leaves 3 inches 

 long, including the leaf-stalk. Panicle with opposite elongated 

 branches terminating in small dichotomous cymes and one at the 

 apex of the main stem. Pedicels rather short. Plowers ^ inch long by 

 f inch across. Calyx at first sul)-cylindrical, but afterwards swell- 

 ing out greatly towards the upper end, with the nerves purple 

 (often this colour suflPuses more or less the whole calyx). Petals 

 white, or tinged with pink, each with 2 narrow diverging segments 

 slightly incurved at the apex. Seeds reniform, not channelled 

 on the back, with small tubercles. Plant yellowish-green, finely 

 pubescent, with the upper part of the stem and calicos viscous ; 

 flowers most expanded and fragrant in the evening, dimorphous, 

 some having the styles elongated, and others having them short. 



S. paradoxa of Smith is not distinguishable even as a variety. 



Nottingham Catchjli/. 

 French, Silene Penche. German, Nickender Taubenhropf. 



SPECIES IX.— SILENE IT ALIO A. Pers. 



Plate CCVIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Caryoph. Tab. CCXCV. Fig. 5110. 

 S. patens, Peete, Eng. Bot. Sup. No. 2748. 

 Ciicubalus italicus, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 593. 



Pootstock perennial, slender, Avoody, branched, producing 

 elongated barren shoots and erect flowering stems. Lower leaves 

 oblanceolate, attenuated into a footstalk ; uppermost stem-leaves 

 sessile, linear-lanceolate. Plowers rather few, sub-erect, in a very lax 

 pyramidal panicle. Calyx cylindrical-clavate, widened towards the 

 apex in fruit, very slightly umbilicate at the base, with roundish- 

 ovate teeth at the apex, pubescent. Petals with the laminae slightly 

 inflexed at the apex, but not at all rcflexed at the base, obovate, 



VOL. II. K 



