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pointed {the bracts). Flowers few, terminal. Calyx obovate, 

 inflated, umbilicate at the base, with broad triangular teeth. Limb 

 of petal parted, with obovate, crenulate, overlapping lobes (slightly- 

 cloven, Babington). Capsule globular, purplish when ripe, on a 

 spherical carpophore which is scarcely half the length of the 

 seed-vessel. Seeds roundish, with both sides nearly flat, beau- 

 tifully tuberculated, and of a deep purplish or black colour. 



Seashores, on rocks, and on the sand ; also on alpine rocks. 



S, conica, Lin. Striated Corn Catchfly. — e.b. 922. l.b.s. 158. 

 A. 4. C. 5. Lat. 51-57°. Alt. 0-100 yds. Tern. 51-48°. 



Stems erect, simple or branched, round, hairy and leafy. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, hairy. Flowers erect, in forked cymes, 

 with herbaceous, acuminate bracts. Calyx at first conical, then 

 ovate-conical, with long acuminate teeth, and more or less umbi- 

 licate at the base. Petals small, with a cleft limb, and the throat 

 fortified with scales. Capsule ovate-conical, sessile, nearly but 

 not quite filling the calyx, and shorter than it. Seeds roundish, 

 flat on two sides, slightly furrowed, between tuberculated and 

 shagreened. 



In sandy places. Annual ; June-July. 



S. noctiflora, Lin. Night-flowering Catchfly. — e.b. 291. l.b.s. 



157. 



A. 9. C. 35. Lat. 50-57°. Alt. 0-200 yds. Tern. 50-47°. 



Root annual, white, branched. Stem erect, stout, very hairy, 

 viscid, and leafy. Leaves oblong, hairy, and prominently ribbed ; 

 upper leaves lanceolate. Flowers axillary or terminal, on short 

 stalks, pale rose-coloured or white, yellowish or cream-coloured 

 externally. Calyx viscid, hairy, with 10 prominent blunt ribs, and 

 long subulate .teeth. Petals with a deeply cleft limb, and short 

 blunt scales above the claw (at the throat) . Capsule ovate-cylin- 

 drical or conical, sessile (on a very short, thick, hairy carpo- 

 phore). Seeds black, reniform. 



Cornfields, in the east of England. Annual ; July-Septem- 

 ber. — We have seen this plant occasionally on waste ground near 

 the Steam-boat Pier, Wandsworth. 



S. Armeria, Lin. LobeVs Catchfly. — e.b. 1398. — l.b.s. ex- 

 cluded species. 



Root annual, branched. Stems erect, forked, glaucous and 

 glabrous, viscid above, leafy. Leaves large, the lower ones obo- 

 vate, obtuse, attenuated into the petioles ; upper ovate or ovate- 



