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SPECIES III.— LYCHNIS ALPINA. Linn. 



Plate CCXIV. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VI. Caryoph. Tab. CCOVII. Fig. 5130. 

 Viscaiia alpina, Fries, Siiiii. Veg. Scand. p. 36. Gr. & Goclr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. 

 p. 222. 



Flowers in a contracted sub-corymbose panicle resembling a 

 head. Calyx bellsbaped-ovoid, at length somewhat funnel-shaped, 

 not umbilicate at the base, with 5 rounded teeth at the apex. 

 Petals with the lamina cleft into 2 oblong lobes. Gynophore 

 scarcely one-fourth the length of the capsule. 



On gravelly knolls, and in ravines on mountains. Very rare. 

 On Hobcartin Fell, Vale of Lorton, Cumberland ; and on Little 

 Kilrannoch, between Glen Prosen and Glen Callater, Forfarshire. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer. 



Rootstock dividing into very short branches, terminating in 

 rosettes of radical leaves and erect flowering stems, 3 to 7 inches 

 high. Leaves strap-shaped, the lower ones slightly narrowed below. 

 Flowers in a terminal fascicle, witli a few pairs of fascicles often 

 reduced to a solitary flower beneath them, without any distinct 

 interval between the terminal and lateral fascicles (not inter- 

 rupted). Peduncles very short. Bracts ovate-acuminate, rose- 

 coloured. Flowers \ inch long by f inch across. Calyx faintly 

 nerved, with rounded teeth having membranous purplish margins. 

 Petals rose-colour, with the limb obovate, with 2 short scales at 

 the base. Capsule roundish-ovoid, opening widely at the apex by 

 5 recurved teeth. Seeds very small, reniform, finely tuberculated. 

 Leaves rather firm, pale green. Plant glabrous, not viscous. 



Red Alpine Catcljly. 



French, Lychnide des Alpes. 



Section III.— GITHAGO. 



Calyx sub-coriaceous, terminating in 5 foliaceous linear acute 

 lobes longer than the calyx tube and corolla. Petals with the 

 lamina nearly entire, without scales at the base. Capsule without 

 imperfect partitions. 



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