7. CARYOPHYLLACE.E. 



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Pasture and cultivated land. — Aug. -Dec. — Europe: wes- 

 tern Asia ; naturalised in most countries. 



4. S. Schafta, (Jmelin. Dwarf, glandular-<l()wny 

 perennial; stems short, ascending; leaves oboval, acuminate; 

 flowers rather large, pink, erect, terminal, with 1 or 2 

 lateral: calyx long, clubshaped, 10-nerved ; petals entire, 

 with 2 blunt scales ; carpophore very long. 



Sandy patches, Seaview Road, Port Victor. — Aug. -Oct. 

 — TVestern Asia. 



Lychnis GithcKjo, Scop. (Corn Cockle), a cornfield weed 

 in mo.st parts of the world and in the eastern States of 

 Australia, probably exists here also, but I have seen no 

 specimens. It is a tall, silky-villous annual, with long, 

 narrow leaves and showy led flowers, the green, linear 

 calyx-lobes being longer than the petals. — Europe and wes- 

 tern Asia. 



2. Sapon.\bia, L. 



(From the Latin snpn. soap ; 



alluding to the soapy juice 



of S'. nfficinalis, L.) 



1. Saponaria Vaccaria, 



L. SDnpicort. Glabrous, glaucous 

 annual : stem stout, erect, 

 branching above : leaves sessile, 

 oblong-oval to oblong-lanceolate; 

 flowers pink, long-stalked, in a 

 loose corymbose panicle, calyx 

 ovoid, contracted at top, with 5 

 green, winged angles and pink 

 triangular teeth ; lamina of petals 

 notched, without scales: capside 

 ovoid, with .short teeth and a 

 very short carpophore. 



Crops; called Nancy in the 

 northern agricultural areas. — 

 Dec. -Feb. — Central and southern 

 Europe. 



Saponaria Vaccaria. 



3. SPERGUL.i, L. 



1. Sper^ula arvensiSi L. Corn Spurri/. Glan- 

 dular-downy oi- almost glabrous annual, branching from the 

 base into "erect stems; leaves linear, unequal, grooved 

 beneath, in 2 opposite, clusters and apparently whorled ; 

 .stipules broad : flowers white, in irregular cymes ; fruiting 

 pedicels bent downwards: petals entire, shorter than sepals; 

 capsule ovoid a little longei- than the calyx; seeds with a 

 narrow border. 



